Much has been written, yes, even on SportsGeezer, about the benefits of taking a low-dose of aspirin each day. Now comes some other news about aspirin, and it’s not so rosy. HealthDay reports on research conducted at Harvard Medical School that analyzed the results of a clinical trial of nearly 28,000 women who […]

Yet another thing the Mediterranean diet is good for, or perhaps, one reason the Mediterranean diet is so good for your health: writing in the New York Times, Nicholas Bakalar reports on a study conducted at Harvard Medical School, where researchers first ranked the diets of 4,676 healthy women on […]

It’s true that this study didn’t find an association between running and getting Alzheimer’s, but that’s because the researchers didn’t look for one. What they did look for was an association between running and death from Alzheimer’s, and they found a big one: people who ran more than 15.3 miles […]

How would you rate your physical fitness? If you’re in mid-life, somewhere near 50, your answer to that question could indicate your likelihood of dementia late in life. Science Daily reports on research conducted at the Gerontology Research Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where scientists followed more than 3,500 […]

Yes, in addition to its folkloric power to deter evil spirits, garlic may slow the spread of some cancers, including prostate, melanoma, and some types of leukemia, all of which weaken the body by over-activating the natural immune system. A University of Copenhagen news release reports that researchers at the school […]

Yet another comforting thing that exercise does: it makes the world a little less scary. No, it doesn’t change the world, but according to research conducted at Queen’s University, it changes our perception of the world. Science Daily reports that researchers at the school used point-light depictions of a human […]

Antioxidants are good for you, right? And exercise is good for you, right? So antioxidants and exercise must be doubly good for you. Wrong. Gretchen Reynolds reports in the New York Times that for reasons that are not entirely clear, the vitamins short-circuit a physiological pr0cess that repairs and strengthens […]

It’s called the “winner effect,” because trainers have long believed that winning athletic competition actually boosts testosterone levels. Now a new study by researchers at Emory University suggests that it should be called the “winner and loser effect.” The researchers analyzed saliva samples of male and female cross country runners […]

Is this good news? The New York Times reports that a new study of results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health suggests that nine out of 10 people who drink too much are not addicts, and can change their behavior with sufficient prompting. It could be good […]

It takes a while, but a bad marriage can kill you, especially if you’re a woman. Researchers at Michigan State University arrived at that conclusion after analyzing five years of data from about 1,200 married men and women who were aged 57-85 at the beginning of the study. A Michigan State […]