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WASHINGTON nike air force 270 sherbert for sale , May 27 (Xinhua) -- A daily 20-minute walk can help older adults reduce the risk of losing the ability to walk without assistance, thereby enhancing the quality of their later years, a U.S. study said Tuesday.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that moderate exercise including walking can help aging adults maintain their mobility, or the ability to walk without assistance, at a rate 18 percent higher than older adults who did not exercise
Called the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) trial nike air force 270 mens black silver for sale , the study recruited 1,635 sedentary men and women aged 70 to 89 to investigate how daily physical activity will prevent older adults' loss of mobility, defined in the study as the ability to walk 400 meters, or about a quarter of a mile.
Although 400 meters might sound like an arbitrary number, it's an important figure for older adults, according to the study led by researchers at the University of Florida (UF).
"Four hundred meters is once around the track, or from the parking lot to the store nike air force 270 metallic black for sale , or two or three blocks around your neighborhood," Co-principal investigator Jack Guralnik, professor of the University of Maryland who also holds a faculty position at UF. "It's an important distance in maintaining an independent life. "
The participants in the study could walk a quarter mile within 15 minutes but were at risk of losing that ability. Low physical performance is common in older adults and is a risk factor for illness, hospitalization, disability, and death.
"These are people who are patients we see every day. This is why this study is so important: It includes a population that is typically understudied," principal investigator Marco Pahor nike air force 270 mens wolf grey for sale , director of the UF's Institute on Aging said.
The participants were randomly separated into two groups and followed for an average of 2.6 years. The first group of 818 walked 150 minutes per week and did strength, flexibility and balance training. The second group of 817 attended health education classes and performed upper body stretching exercises. The study occurred between February 2010 and December 2013.
The researchers assessed study participants every six months, checking their ability to walk, their body weight, blood pressure and pulse rate, among other measurements.
The result is that the loss of ability to walk 400 meters was experienced by 246 participants in the physical activity group and 290 participants in the health education group.
"As an exercise scientist, I believe this type of research is absolutely critical to establish scientific evidence on which to make recommendations for how lifestyle can beneficially influence health status nike air force 270 wolf grey for sale ," said Wendy Kohrt, professor of medicine in the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Colorado, who helped review the scientific merit of the study before the launch of the main LIFE trial.
"The LIFE trial demonstrated that a modest increase in physical activity has the potential to help older adults maintain functional independence," Kohrt added.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- According to the final results announced Wednesday night, Denmark's Liberal Party from the opposition won 46 out of all 98 mayor posts in Tuesday's local elections accross the country, while the ruling center-left coalition gained only 35 mayors and the other 17 posts went to other parties and candidates.
With nearly all votes counted in the day nike air force 270 womens for sale , the Liberal Party gained 26.6 percent of votes, up nearly two percent points from the 24.7 percent in the 2009 elections.
In spite of dominating the national parliament and government, the Social Democrats, leading the ruling alliance, has only taken 34 mayor posts so far, with support rate declining from 30.7 percent to 29.5 percent.
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, also head of Social Democrats nike air force 270 mens for sale , acknowledged the defeat when talking to the Danish national broadcaster DR on Tuesday evening.
"I am chairman of Social Democrats, and I have put my names together both with victories and defeats. Of course I have to bear some responsibility for this election result," said Thorning-Schmidt.
"The last four years for our mayors have been the toughest through many years," she said, referring to the awful economic situation and pressures in the past years.
However, the four biggest Danish cities' administration still ramains under the control of Social Democrats. Frank Jensen from Social Democrats succeeded in re-election for the mayor of Copenhagen, the capital and biggest city of the country.
This year's election saw a disaster for the government coalition party Socialist People's Party www.airforce270.com , which got only 5.6 percent of the votes, a significant drop from the 14.5 percent in 2009, becoming the biggest loser of the 2013 race.
"It would have been fun to be here tonight with arms in the air and a fantastic result, but that did not happen," said Annette Vilhelmsen, who replaced Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal in September 2012 as the leader of Socialist People's Party.
The five regional councils election around Denmark was also held on Tuesday. Hospitals and healthcare are the main focuses of regional councils. Social Democrats grasped three out of five regional council chairman posts, while the Liberal Party gained the rest two.
The elections this year witnessed a turnout of 71.9 percent nike air force 270 red for sale , higher than 65.8 percent in 2009.
Tuesday, Danes went to polling stations across the country to elect representatives of local parliaments and city councils.
In all, 10,069 candidates are contesting some 2,500 seats in the 98 city councils and 205 seats in the five regional councils of the kingdom through two elections on the same day -- races for city councils and regional councils.
Under the Danish law, the local municipalities address daily local administration and public service, while . |
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