April 8 (HealthDay News) — Just four weeks of moderate exercise is enough to boost the cardiac performance and breathing capacity of patients with heart failure, a new study finds.

This slightly more strenuous exercise program — in standard use in Europe for people with heart failure — works at least as well as the less intense American regimen, the researchers noted. They presented the findings Tuesday at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.

In heart failure, the heart progressively loses the ability to pump blood. In the United States, doctors typically recommend three-times-a-week exercise sessions for eight to 12 weeks to help ease the condition, noted study author Stephen F. Crouse, a professor of kinesiology and internal medicine at Texas A&M University, in College Station.

His team looked at data from an Austrian rehabilitation center where 366 heart failure patients (average age 63) exercised 14 to 22 minutes on stationery bicycles six times a week. Participants also did a brisk 45-minute walk each day.

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Serves 4

1 shake makes approximately 3 medium cookies. Eat as an alternative to your morning/lunchtime shake and a serve of fruit.

Ingredients

• 1 Vanilla Shake
• 5 Dried Apricots
• Simply Fibre
• Water
• Sweetner (Equal/Splenda)

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The Tony Ferguson Maintenance Program is designed to help you transition from our Weightloss Program into a personalised, healthy way of eating which will help you keep those lost kilos off for good.

The Program will help you maintain your ideal weight by:

• Helping you choose appropriate food serves and portion sizes
• Incorporating your favourite/missed foods back into your diet
• Re–introducing a variety of foods from all food groups back into your diet
• Enabling you to make healthier choices i.e. low GI carbohydrates
• Helping you choose better options when eating out
• Helping create an enjoyable and personalised meal plan
• Educating you on the nutritional requirements your body needs e.g. your individual carbohydrate, protein, fat and dairy requirements.

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Enjoy UNLIMITED Simply Diet Jelly after your evening meal. Fat free and full of flavour, this is the recommended diet jelly to be consumed while following the Program.

Tony Ferguson’s Simply Diet Jelly contains inulin, a form of soluble fibre which can assist in the relief of constipation, especially when used in combination with Simply Fibre.

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Source: ABC Story by Peter Lavelle

A meal of chips, burgers and cola can make you feel sick. US researchers explain how and why.

Do you feel queasy after eating a cheeseburger and a carton of chips, washed down with a cola?

If so, it’s not your imagination. These ‘foods’ are playing havoc with your metabolism, say US researchers. In the hours after a meal, they produce wild swings of blood sugar, blood fats, and hormones. And they cause the body to release dangerous inflammatory chemicals that damage the walls of arteries and predispose to heart disease and stroke.

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