Four years after the government’s 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines advised us that we should not hold the eggs, new research from Northwestern University suggests that eggs may not be risk free. A Northwestern news release reports that a study involving nearly 30,000 people found that adults who ate more eggs and dietary […]
Author: Art Jahnke
Celebrex May Boost Risk of Heart Valve Trouble
Initially, researchers at Vanderbilt University thought Celebrex might improve the health of people with aortic stenosis, a dangerous narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve opening. So the researchers tested celecoxib, the active compound in Celebrex, on valve cells. As a Vanderbilt news release reports, it made the things worse. They […]
Nose Breathing Can Help Exercise
When exercise gets tough, the tough start breathing mainly through their mouths. That’s because mouth breathing seems to get air into our lungs faster, at a time when we want more air. But now comes research suggesting that nasal breathing may offer some important benefits to bodies that are working […]
Push-Up Capacity and Heart Disease
Here’s another metric to gauge your cardiac health: push-ups. Yes, push-ups. A new study by researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health finds that active middle-aged men who can do at least 40 push-ups have a significantly lower risk of unfortunate cardiac disease outcomes than do men who can do […]
Is Extreme Exercise Good Or Bad For Your Heart?
Is it possible to exercise so often and so intensely that you actually damage your heart? Sure, but it’s not likely. That answer comes from a recent large scale study of more than 20,000 men, most in their 50s, who were divided into groups based on how often and how […]
Marijuana Boosts Sperm Count
Who knew? Smoking pot doesn’t just make sex more interesting; it can make it more productive. Make that reproductive. Researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have found that men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared […]
Pain Creams No Better Than Placebos
It hurts to think about how much Americans spend on creams that are supposed to relieve pain. In fact, those creams often do relieve pain, but apparently they do that no better than placebos. This disturbing news comes from Johns Hopkins University, whose researchers conducted a double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study […]
Enlarged Prostates May Actually Slow Cancer
Turns out that enlarged prostates, which can raise a PSA count and attract the attention of (1.) oncologists and (2.) surgeons, may actually offer some protection against aggressive prostate cancer. That theory comes from researchers at Purdue University, whose computer simulations suggest that enlarged prostates put increased pressure on tumors, […]
Your Body Is What You Think It Is, Even If You’re Wrong
If you think exercise is naturally hard for you, it probably will be hard. If you think you have the genes that make exercise a breeze, it will be a breeze. That’s the takeaway from research conducted at Stanford, which deliberately mislead people about their genetic predispositions. The New York […]
The Math Behind The Perfectly Decorated Christmas Tree
Want to have the perfect Christmas tree this year? There’s a formula for that, devised by members of the math club at the University of Sheffield, U.K. In other words, a 180cm (6ft) Christmas tree would need 37 baubles, around 919 cms of tinsel and 565 cms of lights and […]