(Natural News) Adults ages 60 years and older might want to try weight training in order to lose weight and preserve muscle mass in the process, researchers at the Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina suggest. The research team enrolled 249 overweight or obese adults in their 60s as part of the 18-month study. The […]

(Natural News) A new study that was published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism focused on the effects that both exercise and adequate vitamin D intake – when present in a person’s life at the same time – have on heart health. The study showed that the two factors working together contributes to […]

(Natural News) Here’s one more reason to start hitting the gym: according to a study, even a single workout can help improve your brain health. Based on a new review of the effects of acute exercise, researchers summarized both the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single bout of exercise and the data gathered from […]

(Natural News) Women who were born via caesarean section are more likely to also give birth via caesarean section, concluded an international team of scientists including Michaela Pavlicev of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Human Genetics) and evolutionary biologists at the University of Vienna in a study that was published in PNAS. According to […]

(Natural News) All adolescent women know the burden of having their menstrual cycles. But the end of these monthly periods is only the beginning when it comes to discomfort. Menopause, a natural biological process, marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles. It is diagnosed after 12 months without a period and usually happens in […]

(Natural News) The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recently released a statement that tries to get people to include flexibility exercises as part of their daily workouts. “Increasing your flexibility improves your ability to move easily. Some joints lose up to 50 percent of motion as we age. There are many ways to improve your […]

(Natural News) Are you doing senior citizens more harm than good by offering them your seat on the bus? According to one Oxford professor, you most definitely are. Instead of giving a seat to the elderly, you should be encouraging them to stand up and become more physically active, claimed Sir Muir Gray, clinical adviser […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., have found a link between heart health and memory issues. Specifically, that poor blood flow from the heart can lead to reduced blood flow in the brain’s temporal lobe — the region where Alzheimer’s pathology begins. For the purposes of their research, the […]

(Natural News) Have you ever wondered why people are of different heights and weights? A new large-scale study attempted to answer this by exploring the evolutionary patterns in humans. For the study, researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed the height and weight of 311 hominin specimens, the ancestral lineage of which Homo sapiens alone still exist, […]

(Natural News) A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that thin myelin sheaths are able to restore the impaired nervous system of animals with long life spans and can support its function for years after the onset of a disease. Myelin is a vital insulating sheet or layer wrapping the nerve fibers found in the […]