Archive for February 6th, 2013

If you combine strength training with cardio exercise, you probably start your workouts with the strength training and finish with the cardio. That usually feels best. It’s good to follow your intuition, say sports scientists at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. They demonstrated that workouts that start with cardio and finish with strength training place a heavier load on your body so you need longer to recover.

There’s much to be said for combining strength training and – in moderation of course – cardio training. Finishing a weights workout with 20 minutes of cardio exercise is good for your blood vessels/a> for example. There are indications that you burn fat more easily during a post-weight training cardio session, and studies have shown that the combination of cardio and weight training is an excellent way to lose weight.

A disadvantage of combining these two forms of exercise is that it’s easy to overdo the cardio training, and as a result reduce your progression when it comes to strength, muscle mass and speed. On the other hand, if you can moderate your cardio training appropriately, you can use it to speed up your recovery from the weight training.
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Many men have prostate cancer without even realising they do. The lucky ones will never get to know this either. The disease develops so slowly that they will have died before the cancer has become noticeable. The chance of this happening is lower if you eat large quantities of chicken and eggs, epidemiologists at Harvard University discovered.

One in every two British men will hear during his lifetime that he has cancer, Cancer Research UK announced recently. [bbc.co.uk 19 December 2012] Men are reaching older ages and methods of detecting cancer are improving, so doctors are discovering more and more cases of the disease, including prostate cancer. This development means researchers are not only studying the relationship between diet and cancer prevention, but also the effect of diet on your survival chances if you already have cancer.

Epidemiologists at Harvard announced in 2006 that fish and tomato juice or tomato sauce delay the development of prostate cancer. [Cancer Causes Control. 2006 Mar; 17(2): 199-208.] Every two portions per week consumed reduce the chance of progression by 17 and 20 percent respectively, according to the researchers.
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