Feeling a bit light-headed lately? Experiencing occasional palpitations or trouble concentrating? If so, you might be in love or, conversely, suffering from a very different affair of the heart: mitral valve prolapse.
Evolutionary Fitness
There’s a lazy caveman inside your head telling you to keep packing down that fat and to skip that workout. Here’s how to outsmart him.
Cabbage is Good for You
IT MAY NOT be the most appealing food you’ve ever eaten, but cabbage, despite its Dickensian connotation is extremely good for you. Just dont cook it. Unlike many other vegetables whose nutrients are activated when cooked, cabbage loses half of…
Water the Anti-Smart Drink?
ANYONE who has read this blog more than once knows that we promote the importance of water for both mental and physical performance with a cold, steely consistency. But science that mercurial harridan with aces up her sleeve has discovered…
A Bike Book for Everybody
WHEN Richard Ballantine wrote his best-selling guide to bicycling back in 1972, bikes were heavy. Simple geared contraptions viewed mainly as a hip alternative to environmentally unfriendly auto travel. They’ve come a long way since then, and Ballantine’s updated work,…
Cheap Eats When Travelling
FROM LOS ANGELES to Luxembourg, Tourists always pay too much to eat, and for food that’s rarely good for them. The solution is to eat like a local: Stop in at a local gym to get a recommendation on where…
Smart Drinkers
CONSIDERING how much stupidity has been perpetrated under the influence of alcohol, it may come as a surprise to learn that Japanese researchers recently reported that moderate drinking is associated with a higher IQ. Scientists at Japan’s National Institute for…
Prevent Leg Injuries
If, like many a star-crossed professional athlete, you seem to suffer from more than your fair share of leg injuries specifically, injuries occurring between the knee and the ankle, such as an Achilles tendon strain, Achilles tendinitis or stress fractures-it…
Avoid the Heart Burn
ALTHOUGH fit guys are less likely to experience heartburn than their big-bellied brethren, exercise itself can sometimes trigger an indigestion attack. Before you say, I can’t believe lifted the whole thing, University of New Mexico exercise physiologist Robert Robergs, Ph.D.…
The Preapproved Man
If you’re having trouble catching the eye of the girl next door, make sure she knows that other women find you irresistible. That’s the lesson of a University of Louisville study in which women were asked to rate the attractiveness…