Geezer, who believes that no 4th of July is complete without a Toasted Almond from a Good Humor truck (product placement toto pro bono) thanks the University of Texas for these five tips to surviving the Fourth of July.

Oops. It now looks like it’s not true that a single drink won’t impair attention. Forbes reports that research conducted at the University of Washington, Seattle,studied the theory of "inattentional blindness," wherein an individual fails to notice an unanticipated yet prominent object. Study participants, who were given 10 minutes to […]

This helpful, comprehensive and curiously un-bylined piece in Men’s Health is, in Geezer’s exceedingly biased opinion, the first and last word for the amateur swimmer. It’s the essential "why to do it" –answer: A good swim reduces stress and leaves you feeling energized and healthy. It improves your range of […]

Now that energy drinks have fallen from grace, it’s a good time to look for salvation from muscle ache in something like, OK, cherry juice. And the L.A Times, naturally, is all over it. The paper directs our attention to a "small" study published in the British Journal of Sports […]

Imagine Kundalini yoga with a little ballet, swimming and gymnastics thrown in. That, according to trainer Donna Trace, is the sensory of effect of something called the Gyrotonic Pulley Tower Combination Unit, or "Gyrotonic" for short. The L.A. Times is all over this typically L.A. instrument, which it describes as […]

For the first time in six years, the American Heart Association has updated its advice on how to eat right, and, as Sally Squires reports in the Washington Post, the new guidelines look a lot like the old guidelines. They recommend more fruit and vegetables, more whole grains, more beans, […]

Men’s Journal claims that 50 running shoe testers ran 3,000 miles in 13 pairs of shoes to find the best shoes for different types of runners. Geezer thinks that was the easy part; The hard part was the editors’ task of inventing the 13 types of runners to fit each […]

Chris Carmichael, Outside magazine’s fitness answer man, says spinning can either burn a few calories or a lot of calories, and can build fitness or not. All of the above depends on the instructor, says Carmichael, who suggests that spiiners build fitness with interval training, revving up your rpms to […]

The New York Times turns a critical eye on energy drinks, particularly high-energy energy drinks that contain stimulants that have not been approved by agencies that are supposed to approve of things that we eat. EndoRush, a stimulant-laden beverage that promises 4,000 percent of the daily requirement for Vitamin B12, […]

Viagra, it turns out, improves performance in more ways than one. Reseach conducted at Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System has shown that after taking Viagra, one group of subjects — riding stationary bicycles and breathing through masks to simulate the low-oxygen conditions found at […]