No, Geezer doesn’t much care that readers might wonder what skin wrinkling has to do with health and fitness. This entry is about vanity, plain and simple, and while vanity may be sinful (Geezer has reason to believe that the jury is still out on this one) it’s definitely popular. […]

Last year, a Harris Poll commissioned by Yoga Journal estimated that 16.5 million Americans, 7.5 percent of adults, practice yoga. And according to this article in the Washington Post, those numbers are expected to increase this year. What’s up? Americans are up–agewise that is, and yoga happens to be particularly […]

Can Beyonce save tennis? How about Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez? The United States Tennis Association and the Tennis Industry Association seem to think so. The two organizations, concerned about their sport’s failure to thrive in recent years, have created a new and way more extreme tennis workout, and it often […]

A University of Toronto study has found something else that men can blame on their wives: high blood pressure. The study, which examined the blood pressure, job stress and "marital cohesion" of  216 men and women between the ages of 40 and 65 for a one-year period, found that those […]

While Geezer knows that fall is about harvesting the basil and switching from white wine to red, many people continue to believe that it is about foliage. Whatever.  Here’s a tip for foliage lovers: Bookmart this site. It’s GORP’s great state-by-state guide to peak foliage weeks, and it includes lists […]

Every hetero man over 40 should read this piece in the Washington Post about what women want, and more importantly, what women want to want, but often don’t. That would be libido, from the Latin, libido, desire. There are apparently lots of reasons of this, and there are lots of […]

How deadly are bees? According to this piece in the New York Times, they kill more people each year in the United States than any other animal–with the exception, of course, of human animals. One big reason for that, the Times explains, is that when people who are allergic to […]

Plyometrics, an intense exercise regimen that was born in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, is regarded today like just about everything that was born in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Many trainers place  the explosive drills, which include tricks like jumping off a box to the floor and […]

No got milk?  Try tofu. A new study suggests that soy protein can help prevent broken bones in post-menopausal women. The Boston Globe reports that the Shanghai Women’s Health Study, which followed 24,000 women aged 40 to 70 for four and a half years, revealed that within 10 years of […]

Forget about "no pain, no gain."  A new study conducted by researchers at Stanford University suggests that, when it comes to exercise, more gain equals less pain. Web MD reports that Stanford researchers spent 14 years tracking the health of members of a running club and the health of a […]