What’s the best way to build muscle strength? It depends on whether you want to build muscles, or build strength. No, they are not the same thing. Researchers at Loughborough University in the U.K. recently compared the benefits of explosive contractions lasting less than one second with those of sustained […]
Author: Art Jahnke
Health News About Pot Smoking
First the unsurprising news: smoking pot can be bad for your gums. And now the slightly surprising news: it doesn’t appear to be bad for anything else. Researchers at Duke University who studied nearly 1,000 New Zealanders from birth to age 38 has found that people who smoked marijuana for up […]
How You Argue And What It Means For Your Health
How you argue says a lot about how your health will fare, according to research recently conducted at UC Berkeley. A Berkeley news release warns that people who rage with frustration during a marital spat are likely to develop high blood pressure, and those who keep a stiff upper lip […]
For Strong Bones, Run, Don’t Bike
When it comes to strengthening bones, running has it over cycling, according to researchers at the Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi in Milan. Science Daily reports that the scientists measured two vital bone constituents as well as hormones associated with energy regulation in two groups of athletes: endurance cyclists and marathon runners. Here’s […]
Standing Desks Boost Productivity
Yes, standing desks help us burn more calories, and they also appear to improve our attention. Now comes a report from researchers at Texas A&M suggesting that standing desks also improve productivity. A Texas A&M news release reports that when researchers examined the productivity differences between two groups of call center […]
Yes, Women Really Are Nicer Than Men
Yes, Virginia, women really are nicer than men are. How to we know? Because when researchers at Stony Brook University ran a computational analysis of the words used by more than 65,000 Facebook users in 10 million messages, they found that the language used by women is warmer and more […]
What Those Crackly Knee Sounds Really Mean
What do those crackly noises made by your knees really mean? Researchers at Georgia Tech who have devised a way to record the sounds of healthy and unhealthy knees have this answer: it depends. First, they say, all knees make crackly sounds, even if you can’t hear them. Healthy knees […]
Coffee Keeps Arteries Clear
First, the bad news. About 16 million Americans suffer from atherosclerosis, meaning that their arteries are at least partially clogged by plaques. And now the good news: coffee appears to help keep arteries clear. The Tufts Health & Nutrition newsletter reports on a new Korean study that has found that […]
How To Stay (Relatively) Safe From Ticks
From Stephen Wikel, professor emeritus of medical sciences at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine, comes this advice, via HealthDay, about how to stay safe from ticks: Protect your ankles. Wear long pants tucked into high socks when doing yard work. Wrap duct tape — sticky-side out — […]
Dinner By Candlelight May Keep You Thin
It could be true: researchers at Northwestern University have learned that insulin was unable to quickly bring glucose levels back to a normal level following a meal with bright light exposure in the evening. Yes, that does matter, because the body’s inability to adequately move glucose out of the bloodstream, […]