Who Will Beat the Kenyans?
Way to go Mo and Galen! On Saturday, Mo Farah of Great Britain and Galen Rupp of the U.S. broke the East African monopoly on the 10,000m by winning gold and silver respectively. Their performances...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Olympics: Catching my breath
After yesterday’s long post on the East Africans, I want to catch up on a couple of things. The home field advantage and the medal count. I received a comment on the home field advantage and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Physical Activity: Are We Getting Enough?
A couple of days ago I discussed whether deconditioning should become a distinct medical diagnosis because it is the root cause of so many devastating chronic diseases. In this short post I want to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inactivity and Obesity
This post is on how inactivity is a major player in the obesity epidemic. It is data rich so fasten your seat belts. That having been said, I want to make three main points: Physical inactivity is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interval Walking Training
In several recent posts I have focused on physical activity and health and also the link between obesity and inactivity. Not a lot of good news if you look at the population statistics, but good news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Live Long and Prosper!
For the last month or so I have been focused on the twin problems of inactivity and obesity. Today I want to turn the tables on these problems and ask what we know about people who live a long time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Too Much Exercise?
Today’s post was stimulated by an e-mail exchange with Amby Burfoot of Runner’s World on reports over the past few months suggesting that lifelong intensive exercise training might be “bad” and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
3 Weeks = 30 Years!
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the “Integrative Biology of Exercise” conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society. During an excellent talk on how exercise training can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exercise and Brain Size
A few weeks ago I pointed out that age associated cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease shared many risk factors with cardiovascular disease. The brain shrinks as it ages and it shrinks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elite Octogenarians!
A number of recent posts have focused on what might be called the “geopolitics” of healthcare and the Federal budget in the United States and offered analysis and ideas about how things like sin taxes...
View ArticleA Deep Dive & Risk
Last weekend there was a “60 Minutes” segment on the emerging sport of free diving. That plus the death of free diver Nicholas Mevoli got me thinking about risk and extreme sports. When things like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
