Category: Health
Supplement containing vitamin C makes it easier to do more exercise
If you keep on like this you'll get diabetes. Or your joints will give up because of your colossal belly. Or you'll die from a heart attack. You have [...]
Live 12 percent longer on a low-glycemic diet
If you give elderly mice a low-glycaemic diet for the rest of their life they live 12 percent longer than mice given standard food. Researchers at Dea [...]
Weight loss: faster and healthier with 2 meals a day
Slimming goes better with two large meals a day than with six smaller meals researchers at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Pra [...]
Five cups of green tea daily rejuvenates skin
Women over 40 can make their skin younger-looking and softer by drinking five cups of green tea a day. Dermatologists at the University of Witten-Herd [...]
Daily half hour of meditation protects against burnout
If you are subject to continuous stress and are worried that sooner or later you're likely to succumb to depression or a burnout, maybe you should con [...]
Ginkgo keeps incorrigible fatties healthy
Obese people who are not prepared to do more exercise or eat more healthily should maybe start taking Ginkgo biloba. It might help keep their overweig [...]
CrossFit is not more effective than traditional fitness
CrossFit is a controversial but increasingly popular way of doing fitness, in which certified trainers get their pupils, in groups, to do exercises fr [...]
Endurance athletes perform better if they eat almonds instead of cookies
Endurance athletes perform better if they ban cookies and other starch and sugar-loaded foods from their diet, and replace them with almonds. A human [...]
Diabetics live longer with physical exercise
Exercise reduces your chances of developing type-2 diabetes, but even if you already have diabetes exercise is good for you. Definitely if you exercis [...]
Handful of goji berries protects testosterone from stress
Under stressful conditions the concentration of the hormone cortisol in the body rises. If the increase is big enough, the amount of testosterone you [...]
Muscle mass extends life expectancy
If you do heavy physical work or weight training, you'll not only make your body more muscled and stronger, but you'll also make it last longer. Muscl [...]
Difference between good and average student is twenty minutes sleep
If mediocre students were to sleep 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer on weekdays, they might improve their grades. This is suggested in a study that sl [...]
Strength training increases success of attempts to quit smoking
People who stop smoking are more often successful if they start strength training at the same time. Researchers at Brown University in the US think th [...]
Allopurinol helps prevent football injuries
We can imagine that football clubs might soon be asking their costly football players to take allopurinol, a medicine for gout. Our prediction comes a [...]
Women with children have less testosterone
Testosterone levels of women react in the same way as those of men: a steady relationship lowers the level, and the arrival of child lowers it even fu [...]