Here’s a sentence from the New York Times‘ recent report on testosterone studies: “Testosterone has been available as a drug for so long that it was never subjected to clinical trials of safety and efficacy as most new drugs are today.” Yikes! Over the past year, however, several studies have […]
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Resistance Training Builds Strong Bones
Like just about everything else, our bones get weaker as we get older. What to do? Researchers at the University of Missouri suggest weight bearing exercises and jump training. Here’s why. As Science Daily reports, the researchers split a group of men 25- to 60-years-old who had low-bone mass into two […]
Drinking And Weight Gain: Myth Or Reality?
Forget everything your spouse has told you about drinking and gaining weight. The truth, according to researchers at the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, is that there is no association between light to moderate alcohol intake […]
Probiotics Cut Allergy Symptoms
Probiotics are alleged to deliver all kind of health benefits, and, especially now that they are widely and wildly marketed, it’s hard to separate faction from fiction. Now come researchers from the University of Florida who have no ostensible reason to jack up the powers of probiotics, and who claim […]
Seven Miles A Day For Heart Health? Really?
Yes really. That’s the recommendation of researchers at the University of Warwick, who outfitted 111 healthy postal workers with activity monitors for seven days, then tracked their activity and compared their waist circumferences and BMIs. One group of 55 were office workers, and one group of 56 walked a mail […]
Testosterone Builds Bone, May Up Heart Risk
Men got the good news about testosterone treatment last year, when researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School reported that testosterone treatment improved sexual function and mood. Now comes another report from the same study, suggesting that testosterone treatment improves bone density and strength, but warning that it seemed […]
Eat Less, Age Slower
Want to stay younger longer? Try eating less. That’s the practical suggestion of research findings at Brigham Young University, where scientists working with mice, not humans, found that when ribosomes  the cell’s protein makers  slow down, the aging process slows too. Why? Because the decreased speed lowers production but […]
Marriage Relieves Stress
Think marriage is stressful? Try being unmarried. That’s the implicit message from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who are convinced that married people have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol than unmarried. A Carnegie Mellon news release reports that when researchers studied saliva samples (taken over three consecutive days) from 572 […]
Pats vs Falcons And The Dangers of Double Dipping
It’s old news, but it’s still depressing. In 2008, yet another year that the Patriots played in the Superbowl, the New York Times reported that researchers at Clemson University had looked into the likelihood that bacteria would be transferred by double dipping chips or crackers in a bowl of party […]
Mindful People Make Better Health Choices
When people offer health advice, are you appreciative or resentful? It matters, because your emotional response to advice influence the likelihood that you will follow it. Now, a study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that people who are more mindful are more receptive to health messaging and […]