For years, SportsGeezer has heard complaints from distance swimmers who suffer from allergies after long swims in fresh water lakes. Now, from Zara Patel, a rhinologist at Stanford Health Care, comes a quick, easy and inexpensive way to rid your nose of allergens, possibly including the water-borne allergens that drive […]
Author: Art Jahnke
Is It Smart to Lose the Smartwatch?
Is it smart to lose the smartwatch? New York Times writer Lindsey Crouse thinks it is, at least if your attachment to the device borders on addiction. Crouse tells us that she ditched her technology when she realized that she couldn’t stop thinking about the damn numbers. Crouse gives us […]
Red Wine or White Wine; Which Is More Healthful?
Is red wine really more healthful than white wine, as is widely alleged? Or is white just as good for you as red? The answer, according to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, is possibly, maybe, no one knows for sure. Dr. Andrew Waterhouse, a wine chemist and […]
Mushrooms and Your Health
Mushrooms are strange. Neither plant nor animal, they can add subtle flavor to meals and antioxidants to your diet–or, yes, they can kill you if you eat the wrong kind, and there are more than 10,000 kinds. The Nutrition Source, a publication of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, […]
A Quick Note About Alcohol and Sleep
One more thing that isn’t great about an evening drink or two: it can really mess up your sleep. The New York Times Ask Well column concedes that glass of wine or two may help us get to sleep, but warns that post-drink sleep is generally less salutary than no-drink […]
Moderate Drinking Reconsidered –and Continued
Maybe, just maybe, moderate drinking isn’t really good for your health. Maybe the many scientific papers claiming benefits to heart health are more observational than scientific. Maybe Deirdre Tobias, a Harvard epidemiologist cited by Washington Post food columnist Tamar Haspel, is worth following on Twitter. Tobias points out that the […]
Post Workout: When to Eat, What to Eat
It’s great that you had an excellent workout, but no, you’re not done. Post workout, your body wants the kind of protein that will help it repair the damage you just did, in other words, build muscle. It also wants to replace the carbohydrates, glycogen and fluids that you just […]
Exercise: How Much Is Too Much?
How much exercise is too much exercise? The short answer is, unsurprisingly, “it depends.” It depends on your age, your condition, and your goals, meaning why you are exercising in the first place. The New York Times put the question to several nicely credentialed health experts and came away with […]
Why the Coronavirus Likes Obese People
It’s been known since the arrival of Covid-19 that the virus is particularly hard on people who are overweight. Now, thanks to research at Stanford Medical Center and elsewhere, we know why: the virus has the ability to infect fat cells, as well as immune cells within the fat. The […]
Exercise Formula for Longer Life
Gretchen Reynolds, much esteemed health and fitness writer for the New York Times, has an answer for anyone wondering how much daily exercise they need for a longer life. Reynolds reports on two new studies, one published this month in JAMA Network Open, and another published in August in Mayo […]