Archive for November, 2008

Reduce Belly Fat with Intense Exercise

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Researchers at the University of Virginia show that intense exercise is far more effective in reducing belly fat than less intense exercise (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, November 2008).
Storing fat primarily in your belly usually means that you have very high insulin levels which increase [...]

Why Migraines May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Few migraine sufferers can see any bright side to their pain, but now we have one study showing that a history of migraines is associated with a lower risk for breast cancer. The report appears in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (November 2008). Researchers pooled data from [...]

Inflammation: More Important than Cholesterol

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
At the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans, researchers from the Jupiter study reported that statin drugs caused people with normal cholesterol but with high C-reactive protein levels to suffer 54 percent fewer heart attacks, 48 percent fewer strokes, 46 percent fewer angioplasties or bypass operations [...]

Still Eating Red Meat? You May Want to Reconsider

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Several years ago, Professor Ajit Varki of the University of California, San Diego discovered a molecule called Neu5Gc that appears in the tissues of every mammal except humans (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 29, 2003). Now he has put together the pieces of a [...]

Side Stitches

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Side stitches are caused by a stretching of the ligaments that run downward from the diaphragm to hold up the liver. You breathe once for each two strides. You breathe out when one foot, usually the right, strikes the ground. So, your diaphragm goes up when the [...]

Reduce Oxidants to Lower Heart Attack Risk

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
A study from the University of Dundee in Scotland shows that neither antioxidants nor aspirin pills prevent heart attacks in diabetics (British Medical Journal, October 2008). Heart attacks occur when a plaque breaks off from the walls of a coronary artery and travels down an ever-narrowing artery [...]

Exercise-Induced Asthma

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
We have known for more than 25 years that exercise-induced asthma is caused by breathing dry, cold air, but for the first time we may know why this happens. Researchers at the Naval Medical Center-San Diego have just shown that exercise-induced asthma is associated with diminished secretion [...]

Eat More Fish and Less Vegetable Oil

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
The Japanese have the lowest incidence of heart attack in the world, yet they have the same rates of high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, and they smoke as much as Americans do. It’s not because of their genes because Japanese who move to Hawaii and [...]

Overweight is not Destiny

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Nobody has to be fat, but some people may have to exercise for many hours just to control their weight. For example, a gene associated with fatness has been identified in the Amish who live near Lancaster, PA. A study from the University of Maryland shows that [...]