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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
March 2022 Regular Physical Activity Reduces Anxiety Physical activity may prevent anxiety, but the importance of exercise intensity, sex-specific mechanisms, and duration of the effects remain largely unknown. A Swedish study reviewed the records of 395,369 individuals for up to 21 years to investigate if participation in an ultra long-distance cross-country ski race (Vasaloppet, upRead More
May 2021 Revisiting Sitting: Does Your Cardio Fitness Protect You? Sedentary living defines modern mankind. We have reviewed some of these effects here, here, here and here. And we now know that too much sitting kills by contributing to peripheral artery disease by impairing endothelial function (EF), that is, how our blood vessels respond toRead More
June 2020 Is There An Exercise Routine Older Adults Can and Will Do? As we age, we lose muscle and bone mass. We don’t manage glucose levels as well. These predispose the elderly to reduced function and higher risk of falls and fractures which could seriously impair both quality and quantity of life. EncouragingRead More
October 2019 Step Frequency, Knee-joint Forces in Female Runners Running is mostly good for you. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated cardiovascular, metabolic, mental and musculoskeletal benefits galore. Furthermore they have recently shown that running does not cause knee osteoarthritis unless….you have had previous injury, poor mechanics or obvious alignment issues. Knee injuries are common in runners,Read More
In several other posts here, here, and here, I have discussed exercise and health science’s efforts to find the least amount of activity necessary to confer benefits. This goes back to my early years in grad school – 1978 to be exact – and the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) efforts to home in onRead More
Ok, so people know they should be losing weight; they have read and heard it ad infinitum. They feel terribly guilty about their excess weight, their diet and exercise habits, and their burden on the health care system. and they refuse to engage in the long hard arduous struggle to counter the effects of modernRead More
