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From this MSNBC article Excessive exercising may speed cardiac failure:

“In experiments with rats, researchers found that excessive exercise worsened high blood pressure and progression to heart failure in rats with high blood pressure.’

And this:

“The study raises the possibility that “uncontrolled and excessive exercise” may negatively affect the heart in people with high blood pressure, potentially speeding the onset of heart failure, according to Sarma and Schulze."

This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live. That includes the economy which affects one’s quality of life.

From this article Pot Bellies Point to Heart Risk:

“For both men and women, the bigger the belly in relation to the hips -- otherwise called the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) -- the greater the likelihood of arterial calcium in the heart.

From this article Diet foods could lead to obesity:

“Giving children low calorie food and diet drinks may actually increase their risk of becoming obese.

From this article Energy drinks' caffeine in line with coffee:

From this article Printers 'as unhealthy as cigarettes':

From this article Exercise, Caffeine Fight Skin Cancer:

From this article Aquafina labels to spell out source - tap water:

From this article Obesity spreads to friends, study concludes:

“The answer, the researchers report, was that people were most likely to become obese when a friend became obese. That increased one's chances of becoming obese by 57 percent.