Healthy and strong muscles are essential for proper body functioning.
Skeletal muscles are composed of contracting muscle fibers that make movement possible. Muscle contraction also plays a role in how a person sits and stands – in other words, their posture. Similarly, muscles affect joint stability, heat production, and maintenance of...
New research recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society explores the benefits of exercising for delaying Alzheimer’s disease.
Aerobic exercise, such as power walking or jogging, may be the best form of exercise for preventing Alzheimer’s disease.
Last year, a review by scientists at the University of Southern California...
A new study highlights the importance of oral hygiene for people with type 2 diabetes, after finding that those with the condition may have better blood glucose levels if they look after their teeth.
Researchers say that people with type 2 diabetes may improve their blood glucose levels by looking after...
Scientists experimenting with an innovative treatment for cancer have now devised a targeted injection that has already successfully eliminated tumors in mice.
Research devising more effective treatments for all types of cancer has been abundant over the past few years, offering new hope all the time.
It’s like Special Forces, meant for...
Fix-it trick: Get your motor running. When University of Colorado researchers studied a group of 12 women and six men in both summer and winter, they discovered that their production of ATLPL, a chemical that promotes fat storage, almost doubled during the winter and dropped during the summer. But you’re not...
A lot has been written about the effects of soy, generally as a replacement for beef. This is on account of the fact that soy contains all nine essential amino acids, making it a complete protein.
This, however, leads to a question, what is the downside of soy? After all, only...
AIDS is one of the debilitating and widely feared diseases that we have today. With the ability to take out the immune system, this illness is liable to render you susceptible to every passing cold and germ that passes you by, with no real way to fight it off. It...
An international team of psychologists led by the University of Geneva in Switzerland has analyzed 15 years of data to determine how action-themed video games affect cognition.
This is the mental process of gaining knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
The results — which have been published across two...
Recent research led by the University of California, Los Angeles shows that taking a short walk each day can help to keep the brain healthy, supporting the overall resilience of cognitive functioning.
As we grow older, memory problems can begin to set in. These could be a natural part of aging...
New research helps us understand why.
For some of us, it may be harder to perform certain cognitive tasks after a sleepless night.
With 50 to 70 million adults in the United States having a “sleep or wakefulness disorder,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consider sleep deprivation a “public...
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