At the University of Florida, yes, the place where Gatorade was first concocted four decades ago, researchers took a close look at 30 free fitness apps made for iPhones, paying particular attention to their adherence to guidelines for physical activity from the American College of Sports Medicine, including parameters for […]

Swallowed a bug? No worries. Probably. Unless it’s a bee, wasp, or fire ant, in which case you could be in for some mild pain and swelling. The Wall Street Journal gives us the lowdown on bugs that we may want to keep outside our bodies. Those include fleas, which […]

10-20-30 training? What the hell is that? For one persuasive thing, it’s the favorite interval training program of New York Times health columnist Gretchen Reynolds. For another, it was invented by Jens Bangsbo, a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, who was disappointed by the failure of […]

It’s not exactly news, but three more research projects recently demonstrated the brain-related benefits of exercise. HealthDay reports that in one project, 65 people between the ages 55 to 89 were randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first group did stretching exercises while the second group did at least […]

Let’s say you are over 50, healthy, active and financially well 0ff. Congrats, those are all good things. The bad thing, according to research recently published in the British Medical Journal Open, is that those good things come with a higher risk of harmful drinking. That finding is based on […]

More on the ongoing beet juice conundrum. A new study published in the  American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology finds that men who drank beet juice for 15 days had lower blood pressure and more dilated blood vessels at rest and during exercise. Science Daily reports that beet juice […]

How do mosquitoes find us before they bite us? Let me count the ways. One, they smell us, or more specifically, they smell the carbon dioxide that is exhaled every time we breathe out. Two, they also see us, or at least they use their eyes to detect dark objects, […]

Yes, ticks are creepy, especially when their pointy barbed heads are burrowed into your flesh. What to do? The Wall Street Journal has some advice, along with descriptions of several special tick removal devices that are, according to experts, no more effective at removing ticks than a good pair of […]

Exercising to lose weight? Nice idea, unlikely reality. Exercising because it makes you feel good? Nicer idea, and one with a pretty good chance that you’ll actually follow through with it. That’s the thesis put forth by New York Times health columnist Jane Brody, who backs it up with personal […]

No, it doesn’t sound pleasant, but doing squats with weights has been shown to reverse bone loss in middle-aged men. Ditto for deadlifts, lunges and the overhead press, none of which is anywhere near as much fun as and good tennis game. A news release from the University of Missouri reports […]