This week, read about sugar obsessions, compounds in apples and green tomatoes that keep muscles strong, physicians prescribing exercise, pollutants and cyclists, preventing soccer injuries, canned tuna and mercury concerns, sports gels and stomach issues, strength training for endurance athletes, how your feet can help you sleep, and more. How much harm can sugar do? […]
Category Archives: Masters Athletes
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about keeping the elderly moving, how looking at nature helps your brain work better, how sleeping affects your food intake, new recommendations for standing at work, how much fluids athletes need, and a powerful cyclist. Aging and inactivity: Stop killing the elderly with kindness. This is a terrific article by Travis Saunders, […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about a superfit 80-y-old, exercise and cancer, Health Canada endorsing pseudoscience, skinny rice, the myth of high-protein diets, and more. Case Study: How to be 80-year-old with the VO2max of 35-year-old Norwegian researchers describe the physiology of an 80-year-old man with a very high VO2 max (50 mL·kg−1·min−1), similar to most 35-year-olds. They […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week read about how endurance sport can improve how we respond to stress, motivational self talk, whether icing injuries delays recovery, cotton workout clothes, superfood combinations, and more. Does endurance sport make athletes better at coping with stress? Stress isn’t always a bad and shouldn’t be avoided, according to health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, a […]