Archive for November, 2007

Mental Fatigue from Low Blood Sugar Levels

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Exercisers and athletes can expect to feel fatigued when their blood sugar levels drop. Researchers at Loughborough University, UK showed that athletes who did not take sugar during soccer competition lasting 90 minutes felt more tired, had less competitive desire, and had far lower blood sugar levels [...]

Angioplasty Patients Can and Should Exercise

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
If you have had angioplasty and your doctor does not already have you in as supervised exercise program, ask when you can start. In one study from Bern, Switzerland, researchers showed that a three-month exercise program can increase blood flow to the heart in people who already [...]

Smarter Baseball Players Live Longer

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Smarter baseball players live longer, according to researchers at the Department of Economics at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. The authors collected data on players who were born between 1945 and 1964 and found that the death rate for players who attended only high school was almost twice [...]

Small Lifestyle Changes Combat Obesity in Children and their Families

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Pediatricians at the University of Colorado at Denver have shown that very small changes in lifestyle can help stem the epidemic of obesity in North American children. Families of overweight children, seven to fourteen years of age, were asked to make two lifestyle changes: 1) to walk [...]

Orthotics may relieve foot pain from running or exercising

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
People with high arches are at increased risk for foot pain and stress fractures of their bones of their feet because their feet are usually very poor shock absorbers. A report in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (October 2007) shows that custom orthotics can help. When you [...]

Muscle Cramps from Exercise: Causes and Prevention

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Exercisers are often told that muscle cramps are caused by lack of salt (sodium) or low potassium. However, recent studies show that athletes in endurance events who suffer cramps usually have normal sodium and potassium levels. A review of the current literature from Buenos Aires, Argentina shows [...]

Measurable Fat Loss from Exercise

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
If you weigh yourself before and after an hour or two of exercise, the difference is likely to be fluid loss. However, in events lasting several hours or even several days, measurable fat loss can occur. At a competitive 12-hour indoor stationary bicycle marathon, one athlete took [...]

Saunas May Benefit Athletes and Exercisers

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
For many years I have believed that heating muscles in a hot tub or sauna after exercise interferes with muscle contractions and hampers muscular endurance. However, a study from the University of Otago in New Zealand shows that taking a sauna after workouts for three weeks helped [...]

Exercise More Important than Weight Loss for Diabetes Prevention

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Exercise is even more important than weight loss for prevention or control of diabetes, according to a report from the Australian National University in Canberra. Dr. Richard Telford concludes that obesity is associated with, but does not cause, diabetes, heart disease and premature death. The health benefits [...]

The mouth as source of antibody tests and biopsy for diagnosis of celiac disease?

Submitted by The Food Doc Journal

The mouth may produce the specific diagnostic blood antibodies and manifest the characteristic microscopic changes of celiac disease according to a study published by researchers from Palermo, Italy. Both endomysial antibody (EMA) and tissue transglutaminase antibodies (TTG) were detectable in more than half of twenty eight adults and children with [...]

Caffeine May Prevent Dementia

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Caffeine may protect against loss of memory or thinking skills in older women, according to a study published in Neurology. The researchers studied cognitive decline, dementia and caffeine intake of 4,197 women and 2,820 men aged 65 and over in three French cities for four years. They [...]