Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found. The results show benefits of strength training are independent of running, walking or other aerobic activity.
Sitting for long stretches of time is decidedly unhealthy. Still, the health risks associated with long stretches of sitting are nowhere near comparable to those linked to smoking,
Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers currently prove to be hereditary, meaning that they occur because abnormal gene mutations pass from parent to child.
Conclusions first: Where air pollution is high, the level of transportation noise is usually also elevated. Not only does air pollution negatively impact health,…
Earlier this week, I turned to the myth that soy consumption through food increases breast cancer risk. Today we look at something about which…
All right, that title is a bit inflammatory, particularly for this dark chocolate lover. But in all honesty, dark chocolate, while having benefits such…
So many of my fellow clinicians still issue grave warnings about soy consumption for those who have breast cancer. But are they wrong?
Are you a morning person or a night person? Perhaps in-between? I am a morning lark, and stumbled across a thought-provoking piece that suggests women who are “larks” and at their best early in the morning are less likely to develop breast cancer, as compared to night owls.
Investigators found that those with wider waistlines had lower scores on memory, thinking, and concentration tests than those with trimmer middles.
Those who spent more than six hours a day sitting were more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer’s’s disease, and other causes than people who sat for less than 3 hours a day.
