Nov

21

New Rules of Stretching

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Unless you need to build your tolerance for boredom, most stretching is a waste of time. After all, when you review the research, it’s clear that the most widely held principles of flexibility training simply don’t work. Which is why few guys ever stick with it and even regular practitioners struggle to touch their toes. […]

Nov

21

MU study finds that sitting may increase risk of disease

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Most people spend most of their day sitting with relatively idle muscles. Health professionals advise that at least 30 minutes of activity at least 5 days a week will counteract health concerns, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity that may result from inactivity. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia say a new model […]

Nov

21

Sleep A Speedy Time For Memory Making

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

When you go to sleep tonight, your brain may be busy making memories of what you did today — and it will do it in quick spurts, as if your day was being replayed in fast-forward. University of Arizona researchers report that the brain’s medial prefrontal cortex appears to replay daytime activities during sleep […]

Nov

21

Eat Fish Get Smarter

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Eating at least 10 grams of fish per day may make for a sharper mind, new research shows. That news comes from Norway, where people often eat fatty fish such as salmon, lean fish such as cod, and processed fish such as fish "fingers." In a Norwegian study, about 2,030 people in their early 70s […]

Nov

21

Fatty diet disrupts body clock

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Eating just a few meals loaded with fat - think holiday food - could be enough to throw off the body’s internal clock, starting a vicious cycle that could lead to obesity and diabetes, US researchers said on Tuesday. They found mice fed high-fat foods showed marked changes in their diet and sleep patterns, sleeping […]

Nov

21

Do Energy Drinks Jolt The Heart

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Energy drinks may boost your blood pressure and heart rate, as well as your vitality, researchers say. In a small study, they found that drinking just two cans of a popular drink increased blood pressure and heart rate within four hours.

Nov

6

Yoga found to boost health in heart failure patients

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

An eight-week regimen of yoga proved safe for patients with chronic heart failure and helped reduce signs of inflammation often linked with death, according to a study released on Monday. More than 5 million Americans have chronic heart failure, a long-term condition in which the heart no longer pumps blood efficiently to the body’s other […]

Nov

6

Dark Chocolate May Aid Heart Woes

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

There is more good news for chocolate lovers. A Japanese study suggests that dark chocolate can improve blood flow to heart muscle. That is important because improved coronary blood flow mitigates the risk of chronic chest pain, or angina , and heart attacks, says Yumi Shiina, PhD, of Chiba University in Chiba, Japan.

Nov

6

Early Weight Gain Can Mean Heart Trouble Later in Life

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Parents don’t let your children grow up to be fat — or even fat when they start grade school. Children reach a low point in their body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) early in life, before the BMI rises in concert with childhood, adolescence and adulthood. But the earlier a child […]

Nov

6

How The Heart Ages

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Investigators from Johns Hopkins looked at the performance and radiographic anatomy of the hearts of 5,004 men and women with no preexisting cardiac disease, ages 45 to 84, and found that age itself should be considered an independent risk factor for the development of congestive heart failure.

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