Annals of Internal Medicine | The Association Between Midlife...
Why can’t we get the message and messaging straight? The benefits of cardiorespiratory fitness, especially through midlife, are profound and irreplaceable. I believe that we have strayed terribly by...
View ArticleLongevity & Healthspan | Abstract | A relationship exists between replicative...
Fascinating. The vascular cells of people with cardiovascular disease have a lower capacity for replicating themselves than do the cells of people without disease. Seems to argue strongly for...
View ArticleAssociations between body composition and gait-speed decline: results from...
Gait speed is an established predictor of early mortality. Adults who have a faster normal walking pace live longer than those who are slower. Walking speed is an indicator of both cardiorespiratory...
View ArticleActive Voice: Very Short Activity Bouts Related to Healthier CVD Profile
This is sort of good news. The study has the benefit of objective measurement of physical activity, through use of accelerometers. What’s missing, however, is measurement of cardiorespiratory...
View ArticleNew Rules for Boosting Good Cholesterol – WSJ.com
Ron Winsolow’s piece is especially useful for the information near the end, that raising HDL cholesterol the old-fashioned way (via diet, exercise, and weight management) really does appear to be...
View ArticleHard-Wired to Hate Exercise? – WSJ.com
A nicely written piece on why some people struggle with exercise. Shirley Wang’s accessible explanation of complex concepts, such as ventilatory threshold, is excellent. If you juxtapose some of the...
View ArticleA New Kind of Rocky Mountain High
Must be great to live and work in Colorado, where one of the state’s largest employers and its namesake university, will pay Coloradans to do what they already do. See the report by the Boulder Daily...
View ArticleThe Scientific 7-Minute Workout – NYTimes.com
As quick, simple, low-tech workouts go, this is as good as it gets. If done as intended, 30 seconds of each exercise with no resting in-between, this is pretty demanding. I am in excellent condition,...
View ArticleThe Exercise Equivalent of a Cheeseburger? – WSJ.com
Great write-up of a complex topic. In general, I love things that bring us back to the concepts of balance, judgment, and empowered individual decision making. Are formal warnings required here? No,...
View ArticleLow-Risk Lifestyle, Coronary Calcium, Cardiovascular Events, and Mortality:...
Nobody needs a government-driven, incentivized, health-contingent wellness program to achieve any of the results noted in this study. In fact, because of the risk of overdiagnosis and overtreatment...
View ArticleConcurrent Physical Activity Modifies the Association between n3 Long-Chain...
Community volunteer study in generally healthy adults shows that exercise may be the lever that opens up the beneficial action of heart healthy fatty acids. Concurrent Physical Activity Modifies the...
View ArticleLongevity & Healthspan | Full text | Lifelong endurance training attenuates...
Very cool study looking at the impact of exercise on proteins that influence DNA repair and cell death. The results from UK researchers provide insight into how exercise helps to protect aging cells...
View ArticleHow Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells – NYTimes.com
For people like me, who have had a lifelong love affair with hard exercise and long suspected that the benefits reached deep into the body, the science is now starting to prove just how right I was and...
View Article5 Weight-loss Lies We Tell Ourselves
Very nicely written and formatted summary of common weight loss myths, compliments of ACE. 5 Weight-loss Lies We Tell Ourselves. Filed under: exercise, nutrition, population health Tagged: body...
View ArticleDoubling the daily allowance of protein intake with diet and exercise...
More conventional nutrition garbage, er, wisdom, dies in the face of both the obvious and a nicely done, controlled trial. Want to lose weight and build muscle? Eat more protein. Animal protein is...
View ArticleAnnals of Internal Medicine | Are Metabolically Healthy Overweight and...
A useful review of the literature regarding the purported benignity of obesity that actually highlights a serious weakness in the literature. Obesity is not benign and this review challenges the...
View ArticleComparative effectiveness of exercise and drug interventions on mortality...
Lost in all the hubbub over the American Heart Association’s barely lucid guidelines on lowering cholesterol was any conversation at all about whether there are credible, evidence-based alternatives to...
View ArticleThe effects of high-intensity exercise on neural responses to images of food
Very cool functional MRI study of brain responses to images of low-calorie and high-calorie foods after intense aerobic exercise. Neural responses (and thirst) increase in response to images of...
View ArticleShareWIK.com – Exercise: the Rodney Dangerfield of Health
We are ignoring and understating the health benefits of exercise, much to our fiscal and clinical peril…read more… ShareWIK.com – Exercise: the Rodney Dangerfield of Health.Filed under: exercise...
View ArticleShareWIK.com – Exercise: the Rodney Dangerfield of Health
We’re ignoring the value of exercise at our own peril. ShareWIK.com – Exercise: the Rodney Dangerfield of Health.Filed under: exercise Tagged: exercise, healthy living, lifestyle
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