AHA - Post-menopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night seem to have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .
Compared to women sleeping seven hours, the risk of ischemic stroke was 60 to 70 percent higher for those sleeping nine hours or [...]

Regular resistance training, or weight training, can boost the physical fitness of older Australians, according to research out of the University of Queensland.
Dr Tim Henwood, a postdoctoral research fellow with UQ and Blue Care, said his recently completed PhD research investigated how people over the age of 65 responded to resistance training.
"What we were looking [...]

UCLA.edu - In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders, perhaps even benefiting your children and grandchildren.
"Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological [...]

New research shows how too much of a rushed, overbooked, multi-tasking, high-stress, "Manhattan-pace" lifestyle is shortening your lifespan and stunning your immune system at the cellular level, by inhibiting the cells youth enzyme, telomerase.
Every cell contains a tiny clock called a telomere, which shortens each time the cell divides. Short telomeres are linked to a [...]

AAN.com - Mild Alzheimer’s disease patients with higher physical fitness had larger brains compared to mild Alzheimer’s patients with lower physical fitness, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008 issue of Neurology ®.
For the study, 121 people age 60 and older underwent exercise fitness tests using a treadmill as well as brain [...]

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
“Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and [...]