Why do women like long distance runners? Don’t ask a woman; ask a biological anthropologist, specifically, a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where researchers think the reason is deep in our past: better runners make better hunters, and better hunters are nicer people. A University of Cambridge news […]

In December, Canadian authorities banned the sale of diet and workout supplements that contain BMPEA, calling the chemical, which is nearly identical to amphetamine, a “serious health risk.” Curiously, in the United States, the FDA took no such action, even though it had found that nine of 21 supplements tested […]

The next time your spouse warns you not to push too hard while exercising because you might have a heart attack, remind him or her of the findings of this recent study by the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute study. Researchers at the institute studied the 1,247 people aged 35-65 from the Portland, […]

Writing in the New York Times, Jane Brody tells us something remarkable about nuts: the more you eat, the less likely you are to die at any given age, especially of cancer or heart disease. How does she know that? Brody cites a series of large studies, including the Nurses’ Health […]

Yikes! According to Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times, about ten percent of Americans take fish oil regularly, and most of them think it’s good for their heart. Oops. As O’Connor reports, the vast majority of clinical trials involving fish oil have found no evidence that it does anything […]

The more you sweat, the better you smell. That, at least, is the claim of researchers at Queen’s University in Belfast, who have come up with a perfume delivery system that releases more of its aroma when it comes into contact with moisture. Hence, the more you sweat, the more […]

No. Garlic won’t make you smarter, but according to researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, it might protect your brain against aging and disease. A U of Missouri news release reports that researchers at the school focused on a carbohydrate derivative of garlic known as FruArg and the role […]

Forget about putting off running because there’s too much air pollution. A new study from the University of Copenhagen finds that the benefits of exercise trump the negative effects of air pollution, at least when the measure is mortality. A news release from the University of Copenhagen reports that researchers at […]

Remember when Sweet ‘N Low and other foods with saccharin caused cancer? Scratch that. New research from the University of Florida suggests that saccharin can actually inhibit the growth of some cancers. It’s true. A University of Florida news release reports that Brian Mahon, a curious UF graduate research assistant wanted to […]

First, the numbers: 13,949 men were given a treadmill test to determine cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). During an average 6.5 years, 1,310 of them were diagnosed with prostate cancer, 200 with lung cancer and 181 men with colorectal cancer. Researchers found that men with a high CRF in midlife had a 55 […]