Sat, 24 November 2007 Exercise Dose and Fitness How much exercise should I do? I get this question a lot. Higher fitness has been consistently linked to better health and a lower risk of premature death from all causes - including heart disease and some cancers. A study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at the effect of different "doses" of exercise on fitness levels. This week on Fitness Rocks I interview Dr. Timothy Church, the lead author on the JAMA paper, about what he found about the relationship between amount of exercise and fitness levels. |
Sat, 17 November 2007 Meditation - an interview with Monique Danielle This week we will follow-up on last week's discussion of meditation by talking to Monique Danielle, a mind-body fitness professional who teaches meditation. Monique has a website and an audio CD on meditation. You can check these out at the links in the reference section. |
Sat, 10 November 2007 Can Meditation Reduce Your Blood Pressure? This week on Fitness Rocks we interview Dr. Noel Bairy-Merz about a research paper she and her colleagues published on the benefits of meditation at reducing blood pressure and improving insulin resistance in people with heart disease. |
Sat, 3 November 2007 Poor Sleep and Inflammation This week on Fitness Rocks we talk to medical researcher Michael Irwin, M.D. of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. Dr. Irwin and his colleagues published a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine describing their study into the effects of sleep deprivation on measured markers of inflammation. It seems very likely that prolonged sleep loss could lead to chronic inflammation and hence chronic diseases. |
