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Dementia Study Ties Your Risk To Fitness Level

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/dementia-risk-fitness-study/index.html by Jacqueline Howard, CNN Your stamina — or the time it takes for you to reach peak exhaustion during exercise — can be tied to your dementia risk, and a new study reveals how. The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal Neurology, found that women with high cardiovascular fitness, or high stamina, had an 88% lower risk of dementia than women who were moderately fit. “I was not surprised that there was an association, but I was surprised…

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Choosing Athletic Shoes

https://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2018-06-13/health-tip-choosing-athletic-shoes (HEALTHDAY NEWS) — Wearing athletic shoes that don’t fit can lead to injury, pain and poor performance. The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society suggests how to select the right shoes: Buy footwear from a specialty store, where the staff can offer advice and fit you for the right shoes. Try on shoes later in the day or after a workout, when your feet are larger. Try on shoes with the socks that you will wear during athletics. Make sure…

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Better Physical Fitness and lower aortic stiffness key to slower brain aging

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612092122.htm The rate of decline in certain aspects of memory may be explained by a combination of overall physical fitness and the stiffness of the central arteries, researchers from Swinburne’s Centre for Human Psychopharmacology have found. A study to be published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Diseaseconsiders the mechanisms underlying cognitive performance in older people living independently. Lead author, PhD candidate Greg Kennedy, says that from early adulthood, memory and other aspects of cognition slowly decline, with an increasing risk of…

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