Shorter but higher intensity workouts are gaining more credibility as healthier alternatives to endurance training. Here are a few excerpts from an article on interval training:
“A lot of the (benefits) from exercise are due to a stress response,” said Stephen Bailey, a sports sciences expert at the University of Exeter. “If you [...]
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Since everyone’s attention is focused on the Vancouver Winter Olympics, I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to highlight some rather compelling images from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
First, here are the two gold medal winners for the marathon event:
Next, we have the two gold medal winners in the triathlon event:
Finally, here [...]
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I’m a big fan of the Wall Street Journal, and I think it’s one of the few publications that manages to communicate the news without sensationalizing it to the point of absurdity. But even the “capitalist bible” is prone to occasional gaffes…
There’s a great piece in today’s WSJ on evolutionary biology that you should [...]
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I follow the Livestrong blog, and one of the cover posts for today is a piece called Nuts: Diet-Friendly Nutrition Facts.
This one was actually pretty good. But like a lot of “conventional wisdom” surrounding diet and nutrition, there was a rather glaring half-truth that needs to be pointed out.
First of [...]
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While this probably fall under the “already-heavily-dissected-by-the-blogosphere” category, it’s worth revisiting in light of my prior post.
At the November 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, Dr. Diana Jalal from the Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center presented the results of a research survey of 4500 participants that concluded the following.
Consuming [...]
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In a study published this month in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers have once again demonstrated a potential link to soda consumption and pancreatic cancer:
What we believe is the sugar in the soft drinks is increasing the insulin level in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth. [...]
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The NYT published the article “Slimmer Doesn’t Always Mean Fitter” last week which brings up the very important topic of weight loss and endurance training. It discusses the quite common practice among endurance athletes of cutting more and more weight in favor of achieving a faster PB (personal best) – the idea being less [...]
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I’ve been following Mark Sisson’s blog, Mark’s Daily Apple, for quite some time. I first heard about it a few years ago, and I was quite surprised when I read a bit more about his background.
As it turns out, he’s a former competitive endurance athlete with a storied career that includes a [...]
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There’s an interesting new announcement coming out of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Neuroscience. Researchers have discovered that using chemicals to inhibit the function of the enzyme known as Fyn kinase causes lab animals to immediately begin burning more fat.
The hope here is that this research could lead to new [...]
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Here’s yet another study demonstrating the benefits of taking a fish oil supplement:
Fish oil pills may be able to spare some young people with signs of mental illness from a progression into fully developed schizophrenia, according to a preliminary study of 81 patients in Austria…
No one knows what causes schizophrenia but one hypothesis is that [...]
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