Risks and All, Cholesterol Drug Gets Wider Market Approval

Just as the British medical journal The Lancet reported last month that statins such as Crestor had been linked to a 9 percent increased risk of diabetes, the FDA approved the use of the cholesterol medication as a preventive measure…
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Chocolate Cuts Heart Risk 40 Percent

Good things come, on rare occasions, in small sweet packages. Exhibit A: As little as 100 grams, or 3.5 ounces of chocolate a day has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by 39 percent. Business…
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Supplements Part 1

On the support forum is a thread where folks can make suggestions for articles.  Among them, someone mentioned an article on supplements.  I had previously (I think in one of the newsletters) made a list of my ‘Top 10 supplements’ or whatever but since the archives are now defunct, it …
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The Secret Benefit of Being Lean

I sometimes get asked how it “feels to be lean” or hear remarks like “it must be awesome to be lean all the time”. I reply that I feel great and that being lean feels great. But that’s not the whole truth.
People with a remote interest in fitness and health usually aspire to get lean [...]

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If a Trainer, Diet Book or Magazine Tells You to Eat More Often for a “Faster Metabolism”…Please Read This First!

If you haven’t seen this already, it seems that the mainstream media is starting to finally catch on to some of the research about meals and metabolism.
The NY Times has a piece entitled “The Claim: Eat Six Small Meals a Day Instead of Three Big Ones” and makes the following revelations:
Six meals, according to some [...]

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Three Simple Tricks to Better Swimming

Quick: what are the three most common mistakes made by amateur swimmers? According to Win Wilson, a 30-year competitor in the U.S. Masters program and the author of Good Swimming: Pathways to Better Swimming for Recreational and Lap Swimmers, Triathletes…
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Arginine and Antioxidant Appears to Boost Cyclists’ Threshold

Never a big fan of supplements, Geezer cautiously passes along this news about research conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles and published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and in WebMD: Cyclists who…
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The Dark Side of Aspirin: Ulcers

Aspirin, general a good thing, can increase the risk of ulcers.
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Nine Best Fitness Websites From the Times of London

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Alan Aragon On Intermittent Fasting

“My thoughts in IF, briefly, are that it’s a highly understudied area. The more research I review, the more I’ve come to find out how well-adapted the human species is to prolonged periods of zero food. There are several variants of IF, some are less conducive to typical recomp goals than others. I have come [...]

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