Archive for December, 2008

Farmed Tilapia and Catfish are More Like Chicken than Fish

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Fish are heart-healthy foods because they usually have high levels of omega-3 fatty acids and low levels of omega-6’s.. However, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine show that farm-raised tilapia and catfish contain less than one-eighth the amount of omega-3’s found in farmed salmon or [...]

Nuts Combat Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X)

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Nuts are concentrated sources of fat and calories, but they are high in monounsaturated fats which are healthful. A new study from Spain shows that adding nuts to a Mediterranean diet helps to reverse Metabolic syndrome, defined as having three or more of the following: 1) abdominal [...]

Understanding Delayed Muscle Soreness

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
If you exercise properly, you are supposed to work hard enough to damage your muscles so they feel sore on the next day. This is called delayed-onset muscle soreness. You should then exercise at reduced intensity for as many days as it takes for the soreness to [...]

Cold weather may increase risk for various health problems

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Nobody really knows why, but recent research show that sudden drops in environmental temperature are associated with increased risk for disease and death (American Journal of Epidemiology, December 2008).
Researchers at the University of Athens in Greece studied people in 15 European cities. They plotted the average temperature [...]

Exercisers Age Better

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Athletes who compete into their eighties suffer few medical problems, but those who lapse into inactivity regress toward the general population norms for fitness, weight control and health problems, according to a study in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (November 2008).
People who compete into later life [...]

Eggs Increase Risk for Diabetes?

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Research from Harvard Medical School suggests that eating an egg a day may increase a person’s risk for developing diabetes (Diabetes Care, December 2008). This is the first large study to support the general belief that eating eggs frequently may harm you. However, animal studies have failed [...]

Eating Before Exercise OK for Most People

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Many people believe that exercising right after you eat will cause stomach cramps, but that doesn’t usually happen. Whenever your stomach fills with food, its muscles contract and require large amounts of blood. When you exercise vigorously, your heart pumps large amounts of blood to your skeletal [...]

Lifting Weights Does Not Hamper Children’s Growth

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Lifting weights before puberty growth does not prevent children from growing to their full potential height. Bones grow from growth centers that are weakest part of bone, but strength training during growth does not damage these growth centers and children who lift weights in programs with experienced [...]