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New Location! New Website! Same great service and care!

noreply@blogger.com (XpressMedCare) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:46:00 +0000

XpressMedCare is always seeking ways to make quality, affordable healthcare more easily accessible to you. We have just opened up a new walk in clinic in Laurel offering the same great services we offer in Silver Spring. Along with the new clinic we have launched our newly designed website. We welcome feedback and comments!

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The Benefits of Exercise Add Up: Over Time, a Little Goes a Long Way

noreply@blogger.com (XpressMedCare) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:00:00 +0000

By Alice Park Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Increasingly, evidence suggests that even moderate amounts of exercise can lead to measurable health benefits. But while you don't have to be a marathoner to be healthy, it helps if you exercise consistently and stay active over a lifetime, according to a new British study.
Researchers reported recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that the benefits of exercise are cumulative — the more years people spend exercising, starting in early life, the more physically fit they are in older age.
The study, led by Rachel Cooper at the Medical Research Council in the U.K., included about 2,400 men and women, all participants of the U.K. Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development. The volunteers, who were born in March 1946, were asked about their exercise regimens at ages 36, 43 and 53.
The scientists wanted to see what effect leisure-time exercise habits had on three measures of physical fitness over time: grip strength, standing balance and the time it takes to stand up from a chair. The participants' abilities were tested in 1999, when they were 53 years old, then again in 2010.
People who reported being the most active at all three ages (exercising five times or more each month) had less trouble getting up from a chair, compared with those who were either inactive or only moderately active (exercising one to four times a month). The chair test is a marker of lower body strength, power and cardiovascular fitness, the researchers said.
Those who were most physically active at ages 43 and 53 also showed better standing balance, which involves concentration and motor control.
Physical activity did not track with grip strength, however, and the scientists speculate that the reason may be that most of the participants' leisure-time activities did not involve weight training, which is critical for the muscle development needed to boost grip strength.
The researchers found that even those who qualified as being most active weren't exercising as much as the federal government currently recommends. As Medscape reported:

Interestingly, only 35% of people in the study who were the most active in the group at age 53 years met the recommended level of at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity 5 times a week, indicating that higher levels of physical activity may not even need to be achieved for there to be beneficial effects on physical performance.

That's good news for those who might be daunted by the prospect of having to exercise their entire lives — doing just a little goes a long way. "This is one of the first studies to separate out whether there are cumulative benefits to exercise," says Cooper. "These are crude measures, but over time, we hope to develop more detailed tools to measure physical activity in more detail." Cooper and others are planning further studies to examine the associations between certain types of exercise and specific health benefits over time.

10 Major New Health Reform Benefits Take Effect Today

noreply@blogger.com (XpressMedCare) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:07:00 +0000

Major new health reform benefits take effect today to help keep health insurance companies accountable, lower health care costs, guarantee more health care choices, and enhance the quality of health care for all Americans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-john-b-larson/10-major-new-health-refor_b_736766.html

Brain Foods?

noreply@blogger.com (XpressMedCare) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:04:00 +0000

Can what we eat really increase our focus and concentration, how about what we drink?
Caffeine can make you more alert, but overdo it and you will become jittery and uncomfortable. The effects of caffine are short term which is why people are always going back for more. The key to caffeine is to use in moderation…

Sugar can enhance alertness, but not your normal table sugar. Glucose is the perferred fuel source for your brain. You can give a boost to memory, thinking processes, and mental ability. So take it easy on the glucose and enhance your memory. If you take in to much you just might enhance your waist line along with impairing your memory.
Fish, omega-3 fatty acids… Now everyone has heard along the grape line that Omega-3 fatty acids ARE a brain food. Everyone should eat about 2 servings of fish weekly or take Omega-3 vitamins daily. It has been shown to enhance memory and to slow mental decline.

To get the full article please visit: http://www.medicinenet.com/brain_foods_pictures_slideshow/article.htm

Learn Ways Your Weight Is Hurting You

noreply@blogger.com (XpressMedCare) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:04:00 +0000

I’ve got two great choices for you. One option is that you can choose to work for a lower wage because you’re fat. One other choice is that you can be sick from being so fat so you can’t even get out of the house to hold down a job. Talk about weight discrimination in the weight loss fo…rum.

OK, I know you say that you don’t like either choice, but why won’t you do anything to improve your situation. I bring this up because it’s been in the news how that oversized people face these issues every day.

A study printed in a weight-related magazine showed that those who are overweight are absent from their job more often than other groups. When obese people were sick, their length of absence was longer than typical sick time.

Although this problem affects men and women, it affects men worse.

Naturally, people are going to be reluctant to hire people who will not be productive or profitable.This illustrates why getting your weight under control is of the utmost importance for you to have a good life. You should be interested in rapid weight loss.

There are ways to begin redefining yourself away from someone who is discriminated against and become some one treated equally: nutrition and activity.You’re going to achieve a lot of what you want just by improving your dietary habits.

You will want to commmit yourself to eating naturally produced food. You don’t want to touch anything that has been processed and packaged in a bag or a box.

Follow that by getting fruits and vegetables into your diet. At least 5 helpings daily will help you out.You’ll have to be sure to get healthy fats from fish, nuts, and oliveoil. Now go lose 20 pounds

http://www.docdaily.com/category/health-and-fitness/weight-loss/