Health & Fitness Beyond 40

Exercise And Erections? The Answer Is Yes

Guest — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:29:52 +0000

Does exercise really combat erectile dysfunction? According to research conducted at Emory University, the answer is yes, she said, yes. An Emory news release reports that researchers gave 78 men under the age of 40 two surveys: the Paffenbarger Physical Activity Questionnaire, which translates patient-reported physical activity into weekly energy expenditure to determine whether a participant is sedentary or active, and the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), a 15-question tool for the measurement of erectile function. When they compared the responses, the researchers found improved erectile function correlated with increased exercise, as did higher rates of sexual dysfunction in sedentary men. Want more? Read an abstract from the study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Original post by Art Jahnke

Game Day Advice: The Dangers Of Double Dipping Party Dip

Guest — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:15:07 +0000

It’s old news, but it’s still depressing, In 2008, the last time the Pats played the Giants in the Superbowl, the New York Times reported that researchers at Clemson University had looked into the likelihood that bacteria would be transferred by double dipping chips or crackers in a bowl of party dip. The scientists asked volunteers to take a bite of a wheat cracker and dip the cracker for three seconds into about a tablespoon of a test dip. They then repeated the process with new crackers, for a total of either three or six double dips per dip sample. And now the news: an analysis of the remaining dip revealed that, on average, three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip. Because each cracker picked up between one and two grams of dip, sporadic double dipping [...]

Original post by Art Jahnke

Be Careful Who You Eat With. Diners Copy Behavior Of Partners

Guest — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:44:44 +0000

Be careful who you eat with. New research conducted at the Behavioural Science Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands suggests that people who eat together eat alike, meaning they eat as quickly or as slowly as their partner. The researchers, who published their work in PLoS ONE, carefully observed 70 pairs of young women who had not previously met as they ate a meal together, watching when and how often each of the women took a bite of food. HealthDay reports that if one diner took a bite within five seconds of her partner, the researchers noted the behavior as “mimicry.” What did they find? The women did indeed mimic each other, and the mimicry went both ways. They also found that the mimicry was more pronounced during the first 20 minutes of dining together. Read more in HealthDay.

Original post by Art Jahnke

60 Year Old Young Man Shares His Workout Secret

Guest — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000

It always amazes me where simple motivation can come from. Today is a video of a 60 yr old “young” man who certainly is an inspiration in my eyes. A video that inspired me to write a whole article around him.
Before I get to the video, I first want to go back over a little bit of my own story.
My Own Worst Enemy
I grew up reading lots of exercise books and even as I later moved on to work as a trainer, I prided myself in devouring any and all things exercise related.
100s of books, DVDs, seminars, and much more. However this lead to a problem…too much information.
Pretty soon my head became a walking Rolodex that I couldn’t shut off. I would be in the gym, thinking about what “split” bodypart day it was and could easily come up with 10-20 exercises to do.
I would then spend more time experimenting [...]

Original post by "2 Meal" Mike

Research: Massage Reduces Inflammation In Tired Muscles

Guest — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:30:09 +0000

Yes, it feels good, and yes, it can be pricey, but massage also does some important muscle reclamation work after a particularly tough workout. Researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario conducted genetic analysis of muscle biopsies taken from the quadriceps of eleven young men after they had exercised to exhaustion on a stationary bicycle. A McMaster news release reports on the research, for which one of their legs was randomly chosen to be massaged, and researchers took biopsies from both legs prior to the exercise, immediately after 10 minutes of massage treatment and after a 2.5 hour period of recovery. The tests showed that massage dampened the expression of inflammatory cytokines in the muscle cells and promoted biogenesis energy producing mitochondria. The researchers suspect the pain relief from massage may work in ways similar to conventional anti-inflammatory drugs, [...]

Original post by Art Jahnke

Exercise May Slow Prostate Cancer

Guest — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:52:06 +0000

The findings are preliminary, but they are also provocative: research conducted at the University of California at San Francisco suggests that men who do vigorous exercise three times a week have an increase in the expression of certain genes that are known to suppress tumors, including some breast cancer tumors that similar to prostate cancer tumors. HealthDay reports that when researchers compared prostate genes from 70 men with low-risk prostate cancer to normal prostate genes from 70 men they found 184 genes that were differently expressed in men who did activities such as jogging, tennis or swimming for at least three hours a week, compared with genes in men who did less exercise. The exercisers also had increased expression of genes involved in DNA repair. HealthDay reports that earlier research by the same team revealed links between vigorous activity and a lowered risk of prostate cancer progression [...]

Original post by Art Jahnke

Limited Time Get the BodyBurst Workout Book Free!

Guest — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:31 +0000

This is just a quick announcement that for right now, I am letting people have my new simple BodyBurst workout book for FREE!
Oh there is a catch…isn’t there always? Don’t worry, it’s not that bad.
It’s only available on my new Facebook page here. That’s right, it’s my “bribe” to get people to “like” the new 2 Meal Mike Facebook page.
I had another FB page, but have decided with bringing the 2 Meal Solution to the Kindle marketplace to also go forward with the “stage name” of 2 Meal Mike (and FB will not allow me to change the old page name). I know, somewhat cheesy but don’t worry…I don’t take myself that seriously anyways most of the time either.
I figured it was a fun name and would help more people discover the 2 Meal (IF) eating lifestyle. That’s always been my mission since day 1 here at the IF Life [...]

Original post by "2 Meal" Mike

Download the BodyBurst Workout Book Free!

Guest — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:31 +0000

Original post by "2 Meal" Mike

Get the BodyBurst Workout Book FREE!

Guest — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:31 +0000

Original post by "2 Meal" Mike

Fat Hurts: Overweight People Feel 20 Percent More Pain

Guest — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:38:59 +0000

How much more does it hurt to be fat? Twenty percent, according to researchers at Stony Brook University. And that’s just if you’re overweight. Obese people hurt even more: 68 percent more for Obese 1 group, 136 percent more for Obese 2 group, and 254 percent more for Obese 3 group, as defined by the World Health Organization. A Stony Brook news release reports that when researchers at the school analyzed data about body mass index and the experience of pain from 1,010,762 people, they found a clear association between obesity and pain – with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals. “Even when we controlled for these specific diseases,” said researcher Joan Broderick, “the weight-pain relationship held up. This finding suggests that obesity alone may cause pain, aside from the presence of painful diseases.” Read more from Stony Brook University.

Original post by Art Jahnke