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May 2025 Ozempic-like Drugs for Childhood Obesity? From 2011-2020, obesity in the US increased to almost 20% of kids ages 2-19 years. Multiple studies have demonstrated that obese kids are likely to become obese adults, increasing their risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), heart disease, and many cancers. For more on childhood obesity, read this,Read More
April 2025 Collagen Supplementation: Save Your Money Dietary protein has been the rage for most of the 21st century in the diet/weight loss world. The agglomeration of studies addressing protein consumption for athletes has taken the conversation deeper into the weeds searching for which proteins are best for what purposes. See these past reviews onRead More
Spring 2025 Exercise Certainty in Uncertain Times To understand a scientific article, you need to appreciate the distinction between correlation and causation. Correlation means that two events tend to occur together. As a co-relationship, something could explain part of the answer – larger muscles are stronger muscles – but not explain all of it. StrongerRead More
March 2025 Walking Economy & Preferred Gait Speed in the Aged Studies of gait have determined that even older runners use less of their plantar flexors – calf muscles – as they age compared to younger runners. To substitute, they use more of their hip flexors to swing their leg forward and their hip extensors/glutealsRead More
February 2025 The Gut-Brain Axis Concept and Frailty The concept of the gut microbiome has taken the healthcare and fitness world by storm. The biome is affected by lifestyle, including medications, diseases, diet, and exercise. It is thought to affect not just the body but the brain, and cognition in the elderly. Sarcopenia – theRead More
Winter 2025 Cardio Fitness for Body and Brain What’s a new year’s Winter Fit Happens without news about what’s happening in fitness news? And so it is that a timely article in the Washington Post (Jan. 8) intersects with some snow-weather reading I’ve been up to. A study from the British Journal of Sports MedicineRead More
January 2025 Composite Score of 3 Heart Disease Biomarkers Excels High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), low-density lipoprotein (LDL, the bad cholesterol), and lipoprotein (a) levels (LPa) are valuable, and treatable, predictors of 5- and 10-year risk for cardiovascular events. However, the ability to predict risk over longer periods of time could yield earlier treatments and reducedRead More
December 2024 Reverse Walking Reverses Disease Correlates Heart disease has many correlates such as excess weight as gauged by a high BMI, blood pressure (BP), and C-reactive protein (CRP, a marker of systemic inflammation). Diet and exercise are two things you can do to reduce your risk of disease and early death. Walking is theRead More
