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REAL-News--September-2023Sep 01

September 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – September 2023

September 2023 Too Sweet or Not To Sweet, Part I Rarely does the same topic make one side of the STEPS REAL News newsletter, but this is too sweet a topic to be ignored. According to the June 2023 Nutrition Action newsletter, a March 2023 article in Natural Medicine reported that the artificial sweetener (AS),Read More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: artificial sweetener, athletes' heart, erythritol, Heart Health, low back pain, self-efficacy, weight management

REAL-News --August-2023Aug 01

August 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – August 2023

August 2023 No Fear— Aminos are Here! A significant fraction of individuals in the world of exercise partakes in essential amino acid (EAA) supplementation. These little building blocks of protein promote muscle performance, muscle recovery, and muscular gains. With this in mind, could EAA supplementation aid in recovery from a total knee replacement (TKR)? ARead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: caffeine, cardiorespiratory fitness, coffee, dieting, essential amino acids, intermittent fasting, Joint Replacement, protein supplements

REAL-News --July-2023Jul 01

July 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – July 2023

July 2023 Three (More) Cheers for Resistance Training A large meta-analysis of studies on resistance training (RT) exercise in adults found 16 that met the criteria. The overall conclusion was that RT conferred a  “10–17% lower risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease (CVD), total cancer, diabetes, and lung cancer,” otherwise labeled non-communicable diseases (NCDs). ThereRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: brain health, cognitive function, Exercise, gut bacteria, microbiome, resistance training

REAL-News --June-2023Jun 05

June 5, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – June 2023

June 2023 How Exercise Might Delay or Prevent Cognitive Decline Raise your hand if the thought of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) scares you as much as it does me. A Journal of Physiology (Jan. 2023) article reports that short bouts of intense exercise – what is popularly known as interval training (high energy outputs followed byRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: dementia, high-fat diets, low-carb diets Alzheimer's disease, older adults, prolonged sitting, protein leverage hypothesis, resistance training, sedentariness

REAL News - April 20191May 01

May 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – May 2023

May 2023 Move Over, Cardio; Resistance Training Saves Lives For more than 60 years now, the world has come to recognize that being aerobically fit reduces your risk of many non-communicable diseases (NCD) like heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. The mechanisms have been studied down to the nearest DNA and RNA strands. WeRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: carb loading, disease prevention, hydration, hypertension, IMST, inspirator muscle strength trainning, resistance training

REAL-News--April-2023Apr 01

April 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – April 2023

April 2023 Walk – and Run – Smarter, Not Harder for Knee Health Several years ago, research started demonstrating that gait changes might reduce knee loads, especially for runners. Some of this was prompted by studies on barefoot or minimalist-shoe running. We’ve discussed these issues here, here, here, and here. Those studies demonstrated that kneeRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: energy cost of locomotion, gait retraining, patellofemoral arthritis, patellofemoral pain syndrome, running, ruunning shoes

REAL-News--March-2023Mar 01

March 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – March 2023

March 2023 Get a Grip on Better MENTAL Health In January, REAL News reported on a study in MSSE (Nov. 2022) that demonstrated substantial correlations between handgrip strength (HGS) and overall health and function in older adults. Now, a December 2022 article in the British Journal of Psychiatry adds to the value of HGS forRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: bone density, breakfast, breast cancer, depression, grip strength, handgrip, motion control shoes, overpronation, running injuries

REAL-News-- July--2023Feb 01

February 1, 2023 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2023

February 2023 Don’t Sit While Reading This! The science of sedentariness marches on. For the past 20 years, it’s become more evident that sitting, except on an exercise machine, is dangerous to your heart and health. In light of this information, a broader health concern is how physical activity (PA) impacts the older population. TheRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: achieve well-being, ankle sprains, Exercise, exercise intensity, frailty, Heart Health, physical activity, resistance training, Senior Training

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