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Most Running Shoes Slow You Down and Increase Risk of Injuries 27 Mar 2013 | 04:14 am
Research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (March 19, 2013) and to be published next month (Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, April 2013) shows ...
Who Gets High Blood Pressure from Salt? 15 Mar 2013 | 02:53 am
Not everyone gets high blood pressure from taking in too much salt. The people who are most likely to get high blood pressure from taking in too much salt are those whose cells do not respond well to ...
Being Overweight Does Not Prolong Lives 15 Jan 2013 | 02:55 am
A recent meta-analysis of a hundred large studies showed that being a little bit overweight offers slight protection (a six percent decrease) from premature death (Journal of the American Medical Asso...
Coconut Water Is Not a Special Sports Drink 30 Aug 2012 | 10:12 pm
The headline reads: "Coconut Water Is an Excellent Sports Drink" (Science Daily, August 20, 2012; presented at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Philade...
Calcium Pills May Increase Heart Attack Risk 16 Jun 2012 | 07:56 am
A German study followed 24,000 men and women, ages 35 to 64, for 11 years and found that those who took calcium supplements were 86 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than those who do not (H...
How to Recover from Muscle Soreness Caused by Intense Exercise 28 May 2012 | 01:28 pm
Muscle soreness should be part of every exercise program. If you don't exercise intensely enough on one day to have sore muscles on the next, you will not gain maximum fitness and you are also losing ...
Lack of Exercise, Not Aging, Causes Weakness and Loss of Muscle in Older People 23 Mar 2012 | 01:34 pm
Aging does not cause you to lose muscles. Loss of muscle is caused by lack of exercise. You can preserve both muscle size and strength by continuing to exercise ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifs ...
Exercise Makes You Smarter 28 Feb 2012 | 02:18 pm
People who exercise regularly are far less likely to suffer dementia and had less than half the risk of death during the 17-year study period, compared to those who do not exercise (Medicine & Science...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Benefit from Cortisone Injections 12 Feb 2012 | 03:49 pm
Cortisone-type injections into joints control painful rheumatoid arthritis by blocking protein changes that damage joints (Arthritis Research & Therapy, published online Feb. 2012). REACTIONS THAT CA...
Fasting Slows You Down 1 Feb 2012 | 03:43 pm
Fasting for just a few hours slows an athlete down and the longer he fasts, the slower he moves. A recent study from Denmark shows that after 72 hours of fasting, a person's muscles accumulate far mor...
