This week, read about building muscle as you age, more reasons to avoid supplements, why more running won’t kill you, tips to limit sugars, sleep guidelines, measuring training zones with perceived exertion, healthy obesity, why homeopathy is bunkum, and more. Building and Preserving Muscle as You Age It’s harder for older people to build muscle, […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about event time and athletic performance, Isagenix under the microscope, urban design and health, coffee horror, how strength training helps weight loss, the limits of precision medicine, why your workouts should be high intensity, and more. Event Timing Can Affect an Athlete’s Performance Are you a late-riser who hates early morning races? […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about pizza, screen time, coffee, inflammation (saturated fats might promote; whole grain wheat might lower), measles, e-cigarettes, how to build muscle, walnuts and memory, ketogenic diets for athletes, and more. Pizza takes a slice out of kids’ health Kids love pizza, and the most recent data shows they’re eating a lot of it! A […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about how exercise keeps us young, celebrities that promote science, more health benefits for blueberries, top diets of 2014, bone broth, and more. Exercise Keeps Us Young When I lived in San Diego, I was amazed at the large numbers of older cyclists who were so fit and speedy that they rivaled many […]