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Health: The football is the sport better for man

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

It is not just a good excuse to spend the night out with friends. Instead, football seems to be one of the best sources of health and welfare would lead to the hearts of men. A report this news a bit ‘unsettling for the female gender was a Swedish study published in the journal Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

According to the study’s author, Peter Krustrup University of Copenhagen, soccer is the sports most intense and demanding, requiring greater coordination and a wide range of movements such as twisting, jumping, rapid shooting, and (in very rare) the inverse. The stock five or soccer also had the benefit of committing the same way all the players, unlike football eleven in which, sometimes, some people become fatigued more than others.

In one of their studies, the researchers asked 47 men with hypertension to run or play soccer for an hour twice a week. From the analysis conducted after three months, showed that both activities with a decreased blood pressure of subjects, along with a substantial decrease in body weight. Unlike race, however, the football will also favor a decrease in the levels of cholesterol in the blood. (more…)

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