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5 stories tagged "exercise"
The Exercise Paradox: Lousy for Losing Weight, Your Best Bet for Keeping It Off
A study of more than 1,100 people found activity did almost nothing for the pounds they shed, yet it was one of the strongest signals of whether that weight stayed gone.
Brain & AgingAny Amount of Midlife Movement Tracked With Slower Brain Decline, Most Clearly in Mexican American Adults
In a San Antonio cohort followed since 1979, any physical activity in midlife tracked with slower brain decline, and the link showed up most clearly in the Mexican American adults Alzheimer's research keeps leaving out.
Brain & AgingBracing for a Fall That Hasn't Happened Yet: The Bargain the Aging Ankle Strikes
Falls kill more older Americans than any other injury, and a study of 107 walkers points at the body's own defense: the aging ankle appears to brace for stability, buying it with a shorter, slower, more tiring stride.
Metabolic & WeightOld Muscle Forgets How to Clean Itself. A Gene Called DEAF1 Is Why, and Exercise Silences It.
In aging muscle one gene keeps the growth pathway jammed on and the cleanup crew locked out. Exercise suppresses it in flies and mice, no pill required.
Brain & AgingThe Supervised Prehab Worked. The Home Version Hospitals Want to Sell You Did Not.
Two randomized trials in older surgical patients, one positive and one null, draw the same line under what "prehabilitation" actually requires, and why the version a hospital can hand you on paper did nothing.