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Topic: Health and Wellness

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  • This Is the Exercise Your Body Needs During the Coronavirus Outbreak [faculty featured]
    This Is the Exercise Your Body Needs During the Coronavirus Outbreak [faculty featured]
    Elemental
    March 20, 2020

    This blog features Dr. David Nieman’s career researching exercise and the immune system, including data that shows physically active people have a 40-50% reduction in the number of days they are sick with acute respiratory infections. The blog further notes that “a good rule of thumb is to limit sustained exercise (greater than 60% effort, which means 60% of your max heart rate) to no more than 60 minutes at a time.”

  • How to stay physically active during COVID-19
    How to stay physically active during COVID-19
    March 18, 2020

    App State’s Dr. Rebecca Battista offers tips and resources for staying physically active during the COVID-19 outbreak.

  • What You Need to Know About Working Out at the Park During the Coronavirus Epidemic [faculty quoted]
    What You Need to Know About Working Out at the Park During the Coronavirus Epidemic [faculty quoted]
    Women’s Health
    March 18, 2020

    In this Q&A, Appalachian State University’s Dr. David Nieman answers whether people should work out when sick. In short, no — “sick people wrongly think they can ‘exercise the virus out of the system’ or ‘sweat it out,’ that’s a myth. It’s actually the opposite,” he says. Nieman is a health professor and director of the Human Performance Lab.

  • How to Run Safely During the Coronavirus Pandemic [faculty featured]
    How to Run Safely During the Coronavirus Pandemic [faculty featured]
    Men’s Health
    March 13, 2020

    App State’s Dr. David Nieman answers runners’ most frequently asked questions as the virus continues to spread. Nieman is a professor and director of the Human Performance Lab.

  • What Are The Psychological Side Effects Of The Coronavirus Pandemic? [faculty featured]
    What Are The Psychological Side Effects Of The Coronavirus Pandemic? [faculty featured]
    WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio
    March 13, 2020

    On The State of Things podcast, Dr. Dominique Hammonds is interviewed about the mental health effects of the coronavirus outbreak. She is an assistant professor in the Department of human Development and Psychological Counseling at Appalachian State University and has a private practice in Hickory.

  • How to Train and Eat to Boost Your Immunity from Coronavirus [faculty featured]
    How to Train and Eat to Boost Your Immunity from Coronavirus [faculty featured]
    Podium Runner
    March 11, 2020

    Described as “the world’s leading exercise-immunity researcher,” Appalachian State University’s Dr. David Nieman offers practical advice on running and the immune system — from how regular, modest exercise boosts immunity while long-effort exercise like marathons can lower immunity for 24 to 72 hours, to how certain foods can assist marathoners in countering the risk for respiratory illnesses.

  • App State coronavirus information
    App State coronavirus information
    March 8, 2020

    Find Appalachian State University’s latest updates, resources, prevention tips, travel information and more regarding Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

  • Three Cases of Mumps Identified in Watauga County, Officials Encourage Vaccination
    Three Cases of Mumps Identified in Watauga County, Officials Encourage Vaccination
    March 5, 2020

    AppHealthCare (Appalachian District Health Department) and Appalachian State University have confirmed three cases of mumps in Appalachian State University students who live off campus in Watauga County.

  • Research by App State alumna shows ankle injuries can be treated by targeting the brain
    Research by App State alumna shows ankle injuries can be treated by targeting the brain
    Feb. 28, 2020

    Appalachian alumna Amelia Bruce ’19 researches ligament injury treatments with a twist — using electrical currents targeting the brain.

  • What Runners Need to Know About Coronavirus [faculty featured]
    What Runners Need to Know About Coronavirus [faculty featured]
    Runners World
    Feb. 20, 2020

    What should runners know about the coronavirus — its symptoms, risk factors and any precautions to take, especially if traveling for races? Runners World talks to Appalachian State University’s David Nieman, Dr.PH., director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus.

  • NCBiotech awards $2.1M in grants, loans
    NCBiotech awards $2.1M in grants, loans
    WRAL TechWire
    Feb. 6, 2020

    Appalachian State University is among four universities receiving Flash Grants from NCBiotech to pursue research projects that show early indications of commercial potential. Appalachian received $20,000 to develop a new method of stabilizing insulin so it can be shipped and stored at room temperature, which would reduce the medicine’s cost.

  • 5 Ways Pilates Changes Your Brain & Body [faculty featured]
    5 Ways Pilates Changes Your Brain & Body [faculty featured]
    Bustle
    Feb. 5, 2020

    Appalachian State University’s Marianne Adams, co-founder of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s Pilates Teacher Training Program, explains the benefits of this core-strengthening practice.

  • An ACL Tear Can Affect Your Brain in Addition to Your Knee [faculty quoted]
    An ACL Tear Can Affect Your Brain in Addition to Your Knee [faculty quoted]
    Healthline
    Feb. 4, 2020

    Dr. Alan Needle in Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences explains how researchers are trying to better understand the relationship between injuries and brain function.

  • Regulatory Uncertainty Throwing Indian Pharmacy Retail Sector in Turmoil [faculty opinion]
    Regulatory Uncertainty Throwing Indian Pharmacy Retail Sector in Turmoil [faculty opinion]
    CEOWORLD Magazine
    Jan. 12, 2020

    Appalachian State University marketing professor Dr. Lubna Nafees co-authors a piece stating the offline and online players in pharmacy retail can co-exist for the benefit of consumers.

  • Appalachian nursing professor offers ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life [faculty featured]
    Appalachian nursing professor offers ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life [faculty featured]
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 13, 2019

    Gratitude — the ability to be thankful for what you have or experience — carries significant weight toward our general wellbeing, according to recent research. Sarah Martin, MSN, RN, of Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences explains how.

  • Five-year grant aims to expand WHS mental health program to Ashe
    Five-year grant aims to expand WHS mental health program to Ashe
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 11, 2019

    Appalachian State University, Ashe County Schools and RTI International are collaborating as part of a five-year, rural mental health grant that has received $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education. Their grant proposal was titled “Rural School Mental Health Training and Service Provision in North Carolina.”

  • The power of gratitude
    The power of gratitude
    Dec. 4, 2019

    Appalachian nursing professor Sarah Martin offers four ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life — and ultimately more happiness.

  • $2.5M grant supports App State’s continued provision of mental health training and services in rural NC
    $2.5M grant supports App State’s continued provision of mental health training and services in rural NC
    Dec. 4, 2019

    Dr. Kurt Michael, Appalachian’s Stanley R. Aeschleman Distinguished Professor of Psychology, is the university’s principal investigator for the federal grant that, over the next five years, will support the provision of mental health services and training in Western North Carolina’s rural K–12 schools.

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