Exercise, movement, and daily habits.
Two infusions of zoledronate, given five years apart, brought 44% fewer new spine fractures over a decade in women aged 50 to 60. Fractures of any kind occurred in 24.7% of the women who received both infusions and 35.3% of… Read More →
Veterans who carried both insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea had close to four times the risk of developing cardiovascular disease as veterans with neither. That comparison rests on 937,598 US veterans, none of whom had either sleep condition when they… Read More →
Workouts finishing four or more hours before bed showed no measurable effect on sleep, at any intensity. What mattered was proximity. In more than four million nights of fitness-tracker data from 14,689 adults, a maximum-effort session ending about two hours… Read More →
Knee osteoarthritis is the wear-and-tear joint condition in which the cartilage cushioning the knee gradually thins, leaving the joint sore and stiff. There is no cure, and movement is the mainstay of easing it, which usually means a class, equipment… Read More →
Past about two hours of strength training a week, the death-risk curve went flat. It did not keep falling. In nearly 150,000 adults followed for up to 30 years, roughly 90 to 120 minutes a week was where the lowest… Read More →
Ten minutes a day of guided meditation on a phone left working adults roughly four points lower on a 0-to-40 stress scale than a comparison group after eight weeks, in a trial of 1,458 employees. Four months in, most of… Read More →
Most people who hurt their lower back will hurt it again, and the question a randomized trial in Australia set out to answer was whether anything reliably delays the next episode. Among 701 adults who had just recovered from one,… Read More →
Twelve months of tai chi lowered systolic blood pressure by about 7 points in adults whose readings sat just above the healthy range. Twelve months of aerobic exercise, in the same trial, lowered it by about 4.6. That is a… Read More →
The 150 minutes of weekly moderate-to-vigorous activity in the public guidelines are usually pictured as a habit spread across the week. Plenty of people do not live that way. They get it all on Saturday and Sunday, or not at… Read More →
Sleep advice almost always comes down to hours. The question this study asked instead was whether the clock matters: not how long people sleep, but how closely tonight's bedtime and wake time match last night's. Regularity won. People with the… Read More →
