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 Southern California have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom are women, suffer from the debilitating effects of osteoporosis according to the National Institute of Health. One out of every two women and one in four men over 50 [...]

A group of aging experts from the United States and the United Kingdom suggests that the best strategy for preventing and fighting a multitude of diseases is to focus on slowing the biological processes of aging.
"The traditional medical approach of attacking individual diseases - cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease - will [...]