I want to turn to the use of multivitamins to reduce the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease. Researchers performed a systemic review of randomized clinical trials to examine the effectiveness of vitamins and mineral supplements.... Read More
Run or Walk: How You Can Optimize Your Health
Let’s look more closely at the calorie-burning of each form of physical activity. If you weigh 160 pounds, for example, taking a brisk walk at about 3.5 miles per hour (mph) pace will burn about 156 calories over thirty minutes. Run at a 6-mph pace for the same amount of time, and you burn approximately 356 calories.... Read More
Get More Out of Exercise by Using Music
Get more out of exercise by using music: Listening to music while running may be an essential way to improve your game. This is the conclusion of the first study to look... Read More
Exercise: How You Can Improve Your Performance with Music
The researchers postulate that the positive effects of music may be secondary to an altered perception of effort when we listen to tunes. Personally, when I have mental fatigue, it affects activities such as exercise. I love that music serves as an effective way to reduce this influence.... Read More
How You Can Use Strength Training to Improve Your Health
While we lack randomized trials of exercise to prevent cardiovascular disease or death in a healthy population, we have observational studies that point to the ability of regular exercise to lower the risk of all-cause and disease-specific mortality for most individuals.... Read More
Why You Should Nap
Sleep five minutes, and we don’t have enough time to move deeply enough into sleep to yield a real benefit. Go 30 minutes or longer, and you enter slow-wave sleep and get sleep inertia. The sweet spot, according to the National Sleep Foundation, is ten to 20 minutes.... Read More
Longevity: Lifestyle or Genes?
We begin our exploration of longevity in 1997. Jeanne Calment of France finds her way to fame by simply being: She manages to avoid death for 122 years, five months, and fourteen days. Or did she?... Read More
Just Meditate! You’ll Reduce Inflammation
Mindfulness meditation reduced interleukin-6 levels, a marker of inflammatory disease risk.... Read More