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One of the major impacts of climate change has been the marked rise in global temperature. Recently, we demonstrated that high temperatures (1-week exposure) disrupt prooxidant-antioxidant homeostasis ...

Regular physical exercise is another major factor. Walking, cycling, or light resistance work each day increases insulin ...

A large team of medical researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has found very slight gender differences in temperature perception of a room at ambient conditions and very few gender ...

This lesson plan teaches students how the human body self-regulates to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment -- a process called homeostasis. Most of the ...

A study conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) found that the reduction in resting energy expenditure of physique athletes during their ...