Fitness in middle age appears to stave of dementia in later years, at least for women. That finding comes from scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, where researchers had 191 women, average age of 50, take a bicycle exercise test. Science Daily reports that 40 of the women […]
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Exercise Slows Aging
Want to get older slower? Run faster, or at least more often. Researchers at the University of Birmingham, U.K. are convinced that people who exercise regularly maintain more muscle mass and have immune systems that appears to have aged slower than the immune systems of people who do not exercise. […]
Exercise Changes Gut Bacteria For Better
Researchers have known for a while that the microbiomes of endurance athletes are different from the microbiomes of the rest of us, but they haven’t known if exercise if responsible for that. Now they do. The New York Times reports on a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at […]
Exercise Increases the Size of Your Brain
Glutes and biceps aren’t the only things that are pumped up by exercise. A new study by Australian researchers finds that exercise can increase the size of our hippocampus, the part of our brain that is critical for memory and other brain functions. A news release from Australia’s National Institute […]
Exercise Can Increase Artery Plaque
The general assumption among health experts and exercise advocates is that exercise is if good for heart health, then more exercise is better. But now comes research from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente suggesting that a great deal of active exercise may actually increase the risk […]
Coming Soon: Breath Sensor With Fat Burn Read
How do you know when exercise is burning fat? You don’t, actually, but soon you may. Researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland’s federal institute of technology, have developed a breath sensor that measures biomarkers (mainly acetone) in our exhalations, a reliable indicator of the amount of fat being burned. Futurity reports […]
The Best Exercise? All Of Them
What’s the best exercise you can do? Researchers at Skidmore College believe the answer is “all of them, all the time.” HealthDay reports that when Skidmoore researchers compared the effects of different exercise regimens, they found the greatest benefits from a program that included resistance exercise, cardio workouts, interval training and […]
Exercise Changes Diet, But Only In Males
Does exercise make us want to eat more high fat foods? The answer apparently depends on gender. Researchers at the University of Missouri, who worked with rats, not humans, have determined that exercise did make rats choose less high-fat food and more low-fat food, but only male rats. Female rats, […]
You Are What You Think, Fitness-Wise
Thinking that you’re less fit than others, even if you are actually just as fit as they are, can shorten you life. That’s the verdict from researchers at Stanford University, who analyzed surveys from more than 60,000 U.S. adults, documenting participants’ levels of physical activity, health and personal background, among […]
Exercise Can Slow Aging By Nine Years
Exercise, actually lots of exercise, can slow your body’s biological aging by as much as nine years. That’s the verdict of researchers at Brigham Young University, who looked at the length of telomeres (nucleotide endcaps of our chromosomes that correlate with age) in 5,823 adults who participated in the CDC’s […]