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The official exercise recommendations are a “trade-off between optimizing health outcomes and minimizing requirements for individuals,” but what does the science say is best?
Other than a “space headache,” what might be the downsides of sleeping at a slight head-down tilt to accelerate fat loss?
If the relationship between exercise and dementia prevention is cause-and-effect, as much as 20 percent of Alzheimer’s disease may be attributable to physical inactivity.
Exercising may make our immune systems more than five times better at fighting infection.
When it comes to bone health, it’s use it or lose it.
Burn off significantly more body fat exercising before meals, rather than after them.
Exercising in cool water or under cool conditions on land can lead to an increase in post-workout calorie intake.
Can the aroma of wood essential oils replicate the immune-boosting effects of walking in a forest?
Visiting a forest can induce a significant increase in both the number and activity of natural killer cells, one of the ways our body fights off cancer.
Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic walking (“exerstriding”), beat our regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?
Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies.
If extra chewing is effective in suppressing your appetite when it comes to food, what about chewing gum as a weight loss strategy?
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of… blueberries!
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine.
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find?
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of all the things I try to fit into my daily routine.
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us what the science says and letting us make up our own mind.
Researchers find exercise often works just as well as drugs for the treatment of heart disease and stroke, and the prevention of diabetes. Exercise is medicine.
