Benefit of Mammograms Is Questioned

As it is with PSA tests for prostate cancer, so it is with mammograms for breast cancer. A new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that increased awareness and improved treatments rather than mammograms are the…
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Eat Stop Eat Expanded Edition Review

Eat Stop Eat Expanded Edition is the newly released update of Brad Pilon’s three year old book about intermittent fasting. This is the first and only review you’ll need to read on it.
Right off the bat, let me say that this is a tremendous improvement over the original Eat Stop Eat.
Brad has given me an [...]

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What the Heck is Inflammation? Why Should You Care? | Fitness Black Book

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Senior Skiers Have Double Oxygen Uptake

No one is arguing that going up and down mountains per se is the key to extraordinary pulmonary health, but Swedish experts whose research revealed that lifelong skiers have twice the oxygen uptake as people who don’t exercise do think…
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BMJ calcium-heart study not valid for dietary calcium, Marigot

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Training Makes the Heart Grow Larger

Endurance training, it now appears, doesn’t just make the heart stronger, it literally makes it larger. The Radiological Society of North America reports in a news release that researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany conducted cardiac MRI…
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Fasted Training For Superior Insulin Sensitivity And Nutrient Partitioning

I had intended to write about something different today, had it not been for this new and exciting study that came out a few days ago. The study, named “Training in the fasted state improves glucose tolerance during fat-rich diet“, adds to the scientific evidence which shows that fasted training may have unique benefits* that [...]

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Starting to Run, Slowly, and Persevering Magnificently

In this inspirational piece of writing in the New York Times, reporter John Schwartz chronicles his effort to make running part of his life. It started slowly, and not without humiliations. "Graybeards pass me," he writes. "Teenagers pass me. A…
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Glucosamine, Chondroitin Are Useless for Hip and Knee Arthritis

The market for arthritis drugs is a powerful (46 million people) incentive to sell drug and supplements, and the pain of arthritris is a powerful incentive to take drugs and supplements. Now comes a large and persuasive study, actually a…
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PSA Greater Than 2 Marks Increased Prostate Cancer Risk

The reliability of a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) measurement as a predictor of prostate cancer risk has been batted around for years, with many experts pointing out that you can crank up a PSA count by riding a bike, or preferably,…
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