USC.edu – If you are a mouse on the chubby side, then eating less may help you live longer. For lean mice – and possibly for lean humans, the authors of a new study predict – the anti-aging strategy known as caloric restriction may be a pointless, frustrating and even dangerous exercise. “Today there are [...]

Statistics speak volumes about our relationship with snow. Each year, shoveling and snow-blower injuries result in more than 100,000 serious emergency room visits in North America. Clearly, we have some room for improvement. According to Jill Robertson, a physiotherapist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a lecturer at Dalhousie University’s School of Physiotherapy, winter business is [...]

A new study has determined that sleep disordered breathing (SDB) impairs metabolism by reducing insulin sensitivity, and it does this independent of body fat factors. This means that even lean people can become more insulin resistant from sleep apnea, and obese people with sleep apnea have two independent factors pushing them toward early type 2 [...]

Researchers have just discovered that the chronic intermittent hypoxia that often characterizes obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of Sleep Disordered Breathing, is also independently linked to the progression of liver disease. The study is published in the first issue for February 2009 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In this [...]

Not only is obstructive sleep apnea linked to insulin resistance and liver disease independent of obesity, but at least one risk factor is also common to obesity and OSA: prolonged daytime sitting or standing (which means lack of exercise). Even when the sedentary lifestyle does not lead to obesity, it may still lead to obstructive [...]

Heart disease is the nation’s number one killer for women. The well-known heart attack symptoms – acute pain, tightness, burning and a dull ache in the chest – describe what men typically experience during an attack. For many women the signs of a heart attack are completely different and can go unrecognized. Dr. Karla Kurrelmeyer, [...]