Archive for February, 2010
Weight Lifting Rules for Middle Age and Beyond
Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Many middle-aged and older people have started to lift weights, since extensive data show that lack of muscles increases risk for diabetes, heart attacks and premature death (British Medical Journal, September 2009; Journal of Physiology, September 2009). However, within the first few weeks of their new weight-lifting [...]
Prevent Heart Disease by Reversing Your Biological Clock
Prevent Heart Disease by Reversing Your Biological Clock
Human cells have biological clocks called telomeres which cap the ends of chromosomes. The telomeres shorten in length everytime a cell divides and replicates. Eventually, the telomeres become too short for cell division and the cell dies. Shorter telomeres accelerate a cell’s biological clock and are considered markers [...]
Eggs Do Not Cause Heart Attacks
Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Eggs have not been shown to increase risk for heart attacks, according to an an extensive review of the world’s scientific literature in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (July-August 2009). For example, the Physician’s Health Study followed doctors for 20 years and showed no association between [...]
Muscle Growth Hindered by Obesity or High-Fat Diet
Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
A study from the University of California, Davis shows that a high-fat diet prevents exercising mice from enlarging their muscles (Journal of Physiology, December 2010). The mice received either a low fat, high carbohydrate diet or a high fat, low carbohydrate diet for 14 weeks. Each group [...]
