Geezer recently directed readers’ attention to Outside magazine’s 2005 Gear of the Year Buyer’s Guide, where sporty shoppers can find gun-metal gray Brunton Epoch Zoom binoculars for $1900, or Rudy Project Maskeryna sunglasses for $125. This month, the editors of Outside present a different kind of buyers’ guide, one that […]

The Boston Globe reports that in the past year, three events have converged in the life of Gary Hofstetter. He turned 50. He spent a week in Los Angeles at the Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp, where he jammed with Roger Daltrey of the Who. And he launched his pursuit […]

What makes us happy, really happy, is a sense of fulfillment. But where does that come from?  Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Emory University, decided to find out, and when he did, he wrote it all down in a new book,  "Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment." […]

Geezer is a swimmer who tries hard not to be evangelical, but over the years he’s seen so many aging athletes sidelined by busted up knees and backs that it’s hard to refrain from urging them toward a more forgiving medium: water.  Now the Washington Post takes up the cause […]

Because readers of SportsGeezer understand that one third of medical studies get it wrong, no one should be surprised that we are revisiting a recommendation made last April that runners should go easy on water before and during a race. That advice, straight from a study in the New England […]

What’s the best way to weather a mid-life crisis? Geezer, who has weathered several, suggests that no one panic–after a while you get used to them– and recommends that the afflicted try not to do anything really stupid until full recovery is made.  Best Life, the new magazine from Rodale, […]

The ads work.But the abs don’t. Americans spend more than $100 million on strange mechanical devices whose pitchmen promise six-pack abs, but according to this story in the New York Times, a study by researchers at Kansas State University determined that the machinery does little that couldn’t be done without […]

Is it weird that extra virgin olive oil relieves pain in the same way that ibuprofen does? Then it’s even more weird that the molecular structure of the active ingredients in olive oil look nothing like the structure of active ingredients in ibuprofen. Geezer can’t explain it, but then, he […]

The old adage "There is nothing to fear but fear itself," doesn’t exactly sum up this story in the Washington Post, but it comes close.  Perhaps it’s time for a new adage:"Worry is something to worry about." Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU med school, warns that […]

Men’s Health rallies for the U.S. Open with seven quick tips from "some of the top tennis pros in the country."  Because Geezer’s game would improve with seven tips from some of the worst tennis pros in the country, he’s paying attention.  Perhaps you should too. Favorite tips: Stand up […]