"Cooling down" means that after you exercise intensely, you slow down and exercise at low intensity for a while before you stop exercising for that session. The scientific literature is controversial on whether cooling down helps to reduc ...

A Danish study followed 53,163 people and found that people can reduce risk for developing diabetes by replacing: • red meat with poultry • red meat with fish • processed meat with fish (European J of Nutrition, Sept 17, 2018:1-8 ...

To make muscles stronger, you need to exercise intensely enough to damage the muscles. You can tell that you are damaging muscles when you exercise vigorously enough to feel burning during exercise and soreness in those muscles eight to 24 hours la ...

It may not be so good to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, a famous actress who was a four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee and who was ranked by TV Guide as "One of the 50 Greatest TV stars of All ...

Extensive evidence shows that aging is associated with, and partially caused by, the accumulation of "senescent cells" in your body (Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care, 2014;17:324–328). Recent animal studies have shown that it is possi ...

Many research papers have associated artificial sweeteners with increased risk for cancer, weight gain and diabetes, but nobody yet has proven that artificial sweeteners cause these conditions. This month researchers in Israel, Singapore and Italy ...

Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States and has been voted America's worst president ever in many polls including one by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger.  He appointed several extremely wealthy businessmen to cabin ...

A study from Brazil found that having rats fast for 24 hours on alternate days increased their belly fat and interfered with the ability of insulin to control blood sugar levels (reported at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, May ...

An excellent study from the United Kingdom shows that eating before intense exercise causes your body to: • burn more carbohydrates during exercise, and • digest, absorb, and metabolize more carbohydrates that you eat after exercising ...

From 1900 to 1940, doctors routinely put people to bed for at least two months after a heart attack. In the 1950s the first studies came out to show that men who were put to bed after a heart attack were more likely to die than those who were act ...