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UCI Among Inaugural U.S. Cohort to Adopt Okanagan Charter
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is among the inaugural U.S. cohort of eight “health-promoting universities and colleges” to adopt the Okanagan Charter. The Okanagan Charter calls on institutions of higher education to infuse health and well-being into the campus environment and lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally. It provides signees with ...
New Discovery Explains Antihypertensive Properties of Green and Black Tea
A new study from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. Published in Cellular Physiology ...
Exercise May Have Different Effects in the Morning and Evening
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed. In mice they demonstrate that exercise in the morning results in an increased metabolic response in skeletal muscle, while exercise later in the day increases energy expenditure for an extended ...
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