For More And More Americans, Work Time Is Exercise Time
“While the overarching goal of the exercise is to develop and test command and control of forces at sea, training in this exercise will address the spectrum of maritime operations,” Harris said. Scenarios are expected to include electronic, anti-air, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare as well as air defense and maritime interdiction operations. The United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Peru and the United Kingdom are providing sea and air assets for this years exercise. In addition, Belize, El Salvador, Germany, Jamaica, Panama and Mexico have sent observers or other staff. USS Rentz, a guided-missile frigate with two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters and Coast Guard Cutter Forward are among the U.S. forces taking part in the exercise.
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Exercise may help alleviate depression
Get Healthy Living Newsletters: Subscribe Follow: The Third Metric , Exercise At Work , Exercise Work , Physical Activity Work , Standing Desks , Treadmill Desks , Healthy Living News WASHINGTON Glued to your desk at work? Cross that off the list of reasons not to exercise. A growing number of Americans are standing, walking and even cycling their way through the workday at treadmill desks, standup desks or other moving workstations. Others are forgoing chairs in favor of giant exercise balls to stay fit. Walking on a treadmill while making phone calls and sorting through emails means “being productive on two fronts,” said Andrew Lockerbie, senior vice president of benefits at Brown & Brown, a global insurance consulting firm. Lockerbie can burn 350 calories a day walking 3 to 4 miles on one of two treadmill desks that his company’s Indianapolis office purchased earlier this year. “I’m in meetings and at my desk and on the phone all day,” he said.
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In one of the included trials from 2007, for instance, researchers found 45% of people who took part in supervised exercise no longer met the criteria for depression after four months, compared to 31% taking an inert placebo pill. In another trial from 2002, 55% of older people experienced a significant decline in depression symptoms after 10 weeks of exercise, compared to 33% who attended informational talks during that time. The difference between groups, however, was greatly diminished when the review authors only analyzed data from the six trials that were considered high quality. Still, exercise appeared to reduce depressive symptoms as much as psychotherapy or antidepressant medications. But Mead cautioned that those findings are only based on data from a small number of trials. One has to be careful saying it was as effective as other therapies, she said.
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Five Feet of Fury 