December 7, 2011
Marathons can be bad for your heart. That's the gist of a study that's so widely reported, we're linking you to the Google search results for it.
The less sensational news outlets report that the stretching of the heart muscle is generally a temporary condition, one that athletes can reverse in a week. Others, and we know who they are, are trumpeting Running Marathons May Cause Permanent Heart Damage.
October 17, 2011
Hey, all you low-hanging fruit. That's what this study calls all you people unwilling to exercise. And only 15 minutes a day! What do you want?? This is a considerable decrease from that old 30 minutes five days a week.
Benefits include lower cholesterol, blood sugar levels and blood pressure and you might stop smoking and eat better. Get some shoes.
Read more here.
September 9, 2011
Positive mood. Self esteem. Restful sleep. Who doesn't want all of these?? And how can this be achieved, you query? Exercise! This very long article (in very small type) attempts to round up many studies on exercise and mental health for a series "sponsored by" the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Oddly, this online resource provides no links to the references it cites and no date. Plus these updates to Fitness.Gov stopped in Sept. 2009. And event the Popular Topics page was last updated in June 2010. Budget cuts? But I digres....
September 7, 2011
"What??? Exercise and ruin my hairdo???" It's a common complaint (apparently) from women around the U.S. But this article says women are just using "messing up their hair" as an excuse not to engage in physical activity.
It was our U.S. surgeon general Dr. Regina M. Benjamin who made these remarks to a convention of hairstylists. One conservative think tank guy thinks Benjamin should be taking on bigger issues, calling the SG's interest "bizarre."
