Original article written by Joseph Mercola, DO (Doctor of Osteopathy) In a recent study, researchers took a group of sedentary, overweight men and women and over 18 months and trained them to run a marathon. The men lost just a few pounds, and the women in the study averaged no change to their weight. One [...]
Heavier Weights or More Repetitions? Older people gain more muscle strength by spending more time lifting weights, whereas younger people gain more muscle strength by lifting heavier weights. In younger men, doubling exercise volume by spending more time lifting weights produced limited added muscle enlargement. In older men, it resulted in much larger muscles and far more strength (The Journals [...]
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has shown that exercise prevents aging in mice programmed to grow old rapidly (The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 22, 2010). The exercising mice did not have the expected shrinkage with aging of their brains, hearts, muscles, skin, hair, ovaries, testicles, spleen, kidneys, [...]
The Japanese government has imposed an original law: Japanese people exceeding government limits must lose weight in three to six months, as part of a national campaign against diseases such as diabetes, stoke and heart disease.
Six-Minute Walk Akin to Treadmill METS for Predicting Risk in Stable Heart Disease By Steve Stiles, from Heartwire The six-minute-walk test (6MWT), available on short notice wherever there are hallways, forecast risk of heart failure, MI, or death independently of conventional risk factors in patients with stable heart disease in a cohort study secondary to [...]
Marathon Runners develop calcified plaques in their arteries.
The longer you run, the more plaques.
We are seeing sudden deaths during marathons.
EXERCISE SIXTY MINUTES PER DAY . MEN SHOULD EXERCISE MORE Scientists have finally discovered the cause of obesity – No Exercise! Scientists studied over 34,000 women for fifteen years, and found that those who did not exercise gained weight. This is no great surprise! Below you will find an article which sustains this idea: By [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ten-year-olds spend more time sitting on their rears and less time running around than they did at age nine, according to a new British study. T.V. AND VIDEO GAMES ON WEEK-ENDS Kids mostly cut down on their physical activity during weekends, by an average of 40 minutes about 75 minutes [...]
