In December, Geezer reported, the L.A. Times looked at fitness podcasts, focusing on the running centric RunCast Weekly, a site that, incidentally, looks a lot better now than it did then. Now the East Coast Times, that big paper out of New York, gets around to writing about online personal  […]

It’s true that that subjects in this Yale University study were older (age 62 to 84) women, but researchers believe that the surprising results could apply to younger people too. What surprising results? The Washington Post reports that the study, published in the January issue of the Journal of Applied […]

Jane Brody, Geezer’s favorite science writer, takes on the paradox that troubles many a middle-aged runner: all those newspaper reports about veteran runners who drop dead during a daily workout. In this piece, we learn that Brody’s father, who was not a runner (but was a swimmer) suffered a heart […]

Geezer has long understood that there are people out there who are just waiting to make shoes for every imaginable activity. That’s because, of course, there are other people waiting to buy them. These days, many are buying something called Adventure Racing shoes, which are described by Roy Wallack as […]

Using mice that had been specially bred to develop atherosclerosis, researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine fed half the animals a vegetable-free diet and the other half a diet that included broccoli, green beans, corn, peas and carrots. After 16 weeks, they measured cholesterol content in the […]

Is it true that virtually everything American society has done in the last 100 years has made it easier to be fatter? That’s the claim of James Sallis, a San Diego State University psychology professor who was once described by Time magazine as an "obesity warrior."  The Los Angeles Times […]

Good news! For those of us who don’t have enough people telling us what not to do, there is now an online service that, for a mere $9.99 a month, will tell us what not to eat. How do they know what we are eating? We tell them. In fact, […]

Finally, the New York Times reports, someone has invented a waterproof case for iPods, making it possible for swimmers to get with the music that has been aiding the adrenalin flow of runners, cyclists and other terrestrial athletes. The company, H2O Audio, sell clear carbon-fiber cases–rated waterproof to 10 feet– […]

Yes. It’s true, Maybe. According to this piece in Science News, German researchers may have shown that ingesting types rich in cocoa solids and flavonoids—dark chocolate—can fight skin cancer. Scientists at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf asked 24 women to add cocoa to their breakfasts every day for about 3 months. […]

In Geezer’s mind, any nap is a good nap, but he’s willing to believe that some naps are more good than others, a conviction that would make possible such a thing as The Perfect Nap.  In this piece in Men’s Journal, napping expert Dr. Sara Mednick goes one further, or […]