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Fitness Health

How To Exercise with a Mask

Health experts at the Mayo Clinic have some advice for people who wear a mask while exercising: don’t go crazy. They recommend low to moderate intensity training, the kind of training that allows you to breathe well enough that your body can regulate its temperature. What kind of mask is […]

Attitude Health

What Exercise Does to Your Brain, Maybe

Gretchen Reynolds, estimable health writer for the New York Times, reports on some interesting research that suggests that exercise can make us a little sharper, especially if we are mice. The research, conducted largely at the University of California, San Francisco, infused blood from mice that exercised regularly into mice […]

Eating Well Health

For Heart and Brain Health, Eat More Capers

Chicken piccata is good for you, at least if it’s covered with enough capers. That’s the take home lesson from the University of California’s Irvine School of Medicine, where researchers have discovered that a compound named quercetin, commonly consumed when eating capers, can regulate proteins required for bodily processes such […]

Health Pain

Runners Should Distance 30 Feet

Runners can forget about the six foot margin for coronavirus safety. Because a runner’s wake can carry respiratory droplets much farther than the wakes of walkers (or standers), companion or competing runners directly behind a leader should hang back a good 30 feet. That’s the verdict of a computational model […]

Attitude Health

Museum Goers Live Longer

Want to add a few years to your life? Start visiting museums. A recent study by researchers at the University College London found that, even accounting for income, education level and mobility, people who go to museums or attend concerts just once or twice a year had a 14 percent […]

Health

Mindfulness Can Lower Blood Pressure

Lots of people have high blood pressure, and more than half of those who hav it fail to get it under control. Now comes research from Brown University suggesting that mindfulness may help. A Brown University news release reports that researchers at the school put 43 participants through a nine-week […]

Eating Well Health

Eat Plants, Save Your Brain

Eating more plant-based foods and less red meat in our middle years may reduce the risk of cognitive impairment further down the road. That verdict comes from researchers at the University of Singapore, who reviewed the dietary history of more than 17,000 people over a period of 20 years. Futurity […]