When you’re lifting weights, you might be thinking about setting a new PR or doing your curls for the girls. But throughout history, philosophers have thought about physical fitness on a deeper level and considered how exercise shapes not only ...
in: Health, Health & Fitness, Podcast Brett & Kate McKay • April 22, 2024 Do you sometimes walk to another room in your house to get something, but then can’t remember what it was you wanted? Do you sometimes forget ...
If you read most first aid guides, the last step in treating someone who’s gotten injured or sick is always: get the victim to professional medical help. But what if you found yourself in a situation where hospitals were overcrowded, ...
The overarching principle of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is that the harder you do an exercise, the more physiological benefits you accrue; thus, by incorporating intervals of higher intensity efforts in your workouts, you can get more fitness bang for ...
Last month, I talked about how I’ve reincorporated weight machines into my strength-training workouts to good effect. This year, we’ll be doing some articles on how to use various weight machines properly. One of the benefits of using machines is ...
United States: This season H5N1 bird flu has become a new danger that even in Texas, as the first confirmed human infection was reported by an anonymous source at the CDC. Increasing risk of bird flu among humans This is ...
United States: The toll of reported pneumonia has been especially high among hospitalized adults, owing to often inappropriately made diagnoses of the disease, and hence consequent prescription of anti-biotics to patients. According to researchers of the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal ...
United States: The research carried out by scientists has also revealed that changes in brain chemistry occurring mostly within the brain structures result in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders among many people. On the one hand, we still do have a ...
Every year in the United States alone, nearly a million people have a stroke. Strokes can strike at any age, but the chances of suffering a stroke increase as you get older. The most common age range for strokes is ...
An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world — having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we’ll ...