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 [...]
Already a decade older than most people can expect to live, 86-year-old Tokyo widow Toshiko Doi plays team sports and exercises for three hours a day.
Walking Maintains Brain Volume, Prevents Cognitive Impairment By Emma Hitt, PhD, from Medscape Medical News – Walking at least 6 miles per week appears to maintain brain volume and preserve memory in old age, according to new research. Kirk I. Erickson, PhD, with the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues reported the findings in the [...]
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, [...]
Story at-a-glance A large volume of historical evidence indicates humans used to sleep in two four-hour intervals, with about an hour or two of wakefulness between the first and second sleep Those waking night time hours were oftentimes used for quiet contemplation and introspection, in addition to more active pastimes like making love. Today, many [...]
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 [...]
DR. MIRKIN ON SALT: TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE Salt for Warm Weather Exercise Two major reports in medical journals claim that getting people to reduce their intake of salt will save lives, prevent heart attacks and markedly reduce health costs (Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2010; NEJM, April 22, 2010). That may be true [...]
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 [...]
