Like fine wine, aging done right is the key.
Yes, shoveling snow is hard on the heart, but that stress is jacked up even more by another factor that usually accompanies snow: cold air. Researchers at Penn State have learned that breathing cold air during exercise can cause uneven oxygen distribution throughout the heart. And while healthy hearts generally correct the oxygen distribution, a [...]
This is just a quick update for all those waiting on the 2 Meal Solution for Kindle. There will not be any blog posts this week as I’m putting all effort and energy into wrapping this up ASAP.
I can’t put a hard date on when it will be up on Amazon (as that tends to [...]
Remember to add one more thing to the list of things that omega-3 fatty acids are good for: your brain. Researchers at UCLA have discovered that brains low in omega-3 fatty acids tend to age more quickly and lose more memory than brains with higher omega-3 levels. A UCLA news release reports that the scientists [...]
OK, we’ve known for some time that exercise appears to boost our brain power. Now, thanks to researchers at the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Neuroscience at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, we know how, chemically speaking. Tara Parker-Pope reports in the New York Times Well column that scientists at the lab studied the level [...]
Where to Ski this Weekend – February 24th-26th from SKI Magazine on Vimeo.
Original post by Art Jahnke
From Consumers Union, via the Washington Post, come five things you really don’t want to talk to your doctor about, but you really should.
1. You’re having an affair.
2. You drink a lot.
3. You’ve lost your job.
4. You’ve lost your sex drive.
5. You’ve become forgetful.
Original post by Art Jahnke
Ever wonder which state has the worst sleeping problems? Me neither. But a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology apparently did. A Penn news release reports that they evaluated state-based prevalence of self-reported sleep disturbance and daytime fatigue across 36 U.S. states/ territories using data from 157,319 [...]
Perhaps you haven’t heard of flavanones, but chances are you’ve been loading up on them for years, thanks to the orange or grapefruit juice that most of us drink regularly. Flavanones are flavanoids that are found in many citrus fruits. Now, resasearchers at Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia in England are [...]
Dieticians call it “emotional eating,” and it’s generally considered to be a bad thing, because research has shown that people who are feeling bad eat bad. Or badly, to be correct. Now comes research from Penn State University suggesting that feeling good can also lead to eating bad(ly). That happens when we reward ourselves for [...]
Trail running, basically running through woods, fields and deserts even though no one is chasing you, has been growing like Topsy. According to the American Trail Running Association, there were more than 1,500 trail running events in 2010, up from only 400 events ten years earlier. What’s it about? Writing in A Beginner’s Guide to [...]
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