Le Triomphe CC, Broussard, Louisiana, served as the host for this USSSA Golf Junior Tour event on the weekend of July 16-17, as a record 31 golfers participated in the 2011 Governor’s Games Championship.
Physical inactivity slows down our metabolism and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Taking repeated breaks from sedentary behavior has been proven to decrease waist circumference, body mass index and improve lipid and glucose tolerance.
Your iPhone is your lifeline to the world. You text, you call, you email, you bank, you shop and you should also monitor what you put in your mouth with your clever technological device.
THE craze for Zumba, that gym class cum Latin dance party, just keeps growing — and so, some experts fear, may the number of injuries among its devotees.
SAN DIEGO, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America's leading authority on fitness and the world's largest nonprofit fitness certification, education and training organization, today announced the results of the first independently conducted published study on StreetStrider, an elliptical cross-trainer on wheels for outdoor use.
We're getting fatter. In 1995, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Now, all but one does. An annual obesity report by two public health groups looked for the first time at state-by-state statistics during the past two decades. The state that has the lowest obesity rate now — Colorado, with 19.8 percent of adults considered obese — would have had the highest rate in 1995.
