Researchers offer no guarantees, but it looks like regular exercise increases the chances that prostate cancer will not spread beyond the prostate. HealthDay reports on an American Cancer Society study that included more than 10,000 men, aged 50 to 93, who were diagnosed with localized prostate cancer between 1992 and 2011. Researchers […]
Fitness
Exercise Makes You Less Hungry
Want to work up a good appetite by running a few miles? Not gonna work. Yet another study, this one conducted at Loughborough University in the U.K., has found that exercise has the opposite effect, diminishing the appetite — at least temporarily. HealthDay reports on the research, which analyzed hormonal, psychological and […]
Exercise Slows Brain Aging By Ten Years
Yes, ten years. That’s the difference in brain aging in people who do light or no exercise and people who do moderate to intense exercise. Science Daily reports on a study, conducted by researchers from the University of Miami, Florida, that asked 876 people how long and how often they exercised […]
Secret To Elder Health Is Soccer
Want to see some cardiovascular improvements that will keep you fit through age 75?  Play soccer. No, you are not too old. Just ask researchers at the University of Copenhagen, where scientists looked at the fitness in men between the ages of 63 and 75. Science Daily reports that the […]
The Ideal Interval Length
We’ve all heard of interval training, in which short bursts of high intensity activity are alternated with less strenuous stints. Now comes Gretchen Reynolds, fitness writer for the New York Times, with answers, kind of, to two important questions about interval training: how long should an intense burst last?, and […]
Ultramarathon Pain: Older Runners Feel Better Faster
How long does it take to recover from an ultramarathon? Researchers who studied 72 people who ran the 2015 Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile race through the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California that requires runners to climb about 18,000 feet, can tell you. Five days on average. HealthDay reports […]
To Live Longer, Just Keep Moving
Even for people who exercise regularly, just walking around for a few minutes instead of sitting down can give you a few extra years. We know this because researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied data from 3,000 people aged 50 to 79, who wore ultra-sensitive activity trackers, called accelerometers, […]
Muscles Boost Leadership Image
Want to be seen as a leader? Muscle up. That’s the message from researchers at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where experiments have shown that a muscular physique might just be an important attribute when it comes to judging a person’s leadership potential. A UC Berkeley news release reports […]
Exercise Protects Liver From Booze, Maybe
It’s definitely good news for some readers: exercise appears to prevent the liver against alcohol-related inflammation and injury. We know that because researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine used rats bred for high activity, or “runner rats,†to test if increased metabolism protected the liver against fatty deposits […]
Exercise + Meditation Beat Depression
Yes, exercise has been known to stave off depression–that’s not exactly news, but now comes research from Rutgers University indicating that exercise combined with meditation twice a week for only two months – reduced the symptoms of depression for a group of students by 40 percent. Rutgers Today reports that […]