Want to be seen as a leader? Muscle up. That’s the message from researchers at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where experiments have shown that a muscular physique might just be an important attribute when it comes to judging a person’s leadership potential. A UC Berkeley news release reports […]
Author: Art Jahnke
Mindfulness = Healthfulness
Call it the great fullness correlation. Researchers at Brown University have linked mindfulness to healthfulness, at least when it comes to healthful glucose levels. A Brown University news release reports that a study of 399 people that measured health indicators including dispositional mindfulness (the inherent trait of being aware of […]
The Diet Fixer: 1.5 Ounces Of Almonds
It’s not just that almonds are good for you, although they certainly are. It’s that they replace the junk food that you might eat if you hadn’t eaten almonds. Here’s how we know.  A University of Florida news release reports that researchers at the school instructed 28 pairs of parents […]
Another Thing That Makes You Look Fat: Air Pollution
Does this polluted air make me look fat? The answer is yes, because it does, in fact, make you fat, eventually. Initially, it just jacks up your insulin resistance level, LDL cholesterol, and triglicerides. That, at least, is the suggestion of research conducted in Beijing by scientists from Duke University. […]
Moderate Drinking Is Good For Your Heart, Again
It’s as if the news were too good to be true, and researchers are compelled to do study after study showing that, yes, moderate drinking is good for your heart. The latest evidence comes from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where researchers who followed the heart health of […]
Testosterone Shown To Boost Sexual Function
After years of debate about whether the benefits of testosterone supplements outweigh suspected risks (heart problems and prostate cancer), a large-scale study involving 790 men, all of whom were 65 or older, concludes that yes, testosterone does improve sexual function and mood in older men with low testosterone levels, but […]
Exercise Protects Liver From Booze, Maybe
It’s definitely good news for some readers: exercise appears to prevent the liver against alcohol-related inflammation and injury. We know that because researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine used rats bred for high activity, or “runner rats,†to test if increased metabolism protected the liver against fatty deposits […]
Exercise + Meditation Beat Depression
Yes, exercise has been known to stave off depression–that’s not exactly news, but now comes research from Rutgers University indicating that exercise combined with meditation twice a week for only two months – reduced the symptoms of depression for a group of students by 40 percent. Rutgers Today reports that […]
Sweatband Knows When You’re Dehydrated
No, you can’t buy it yet, but somebody is going to take this to the bank. Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a sweat band that can measure metabolites and electrolytes in sweat, calibrate the data based upon skin temperature and sync the results in real time to a smartphone. A […]
Protein Diet Helps Both Muscle Gain and Weight Loss
Here’s the story: Researchers at McMaster University put 40 young men on a diet with 40 percent of the dietary energy they would normally consume, and also had them suffer through a month of hard exercise. As Science Daily reports, while all of the 40 were on a low calorie […]