Gretchen Reynolds
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Sugar and processed foods undermine body’s response to exercise
[A] study, which involved rodents and people, suggests that eating a diet high in sugar and processed foods, which may ...
Can a specific exercise make you smarter: Sprinting, jogging or weightlifting?
Exercise...augments adult neurogenesis, which is the creation of new brain cells in an already mature brain...[R]esearchers at the University of ...
What’s the ideal amount of exercise for a healthy life?
Exercise has had a Goldilocks problem, with experts debating just how much exercise is too little, too much or just ...
Genes may influence how much we like exercise
It’s possible that some of us are born not to run. According to an eye-opening new genetics study of lab ...
Genetics of being a daredevil
Watching participants in slopestyle and half-pipe skiing and snowboarding flip, curl, cartwheel and otherwise contort themselves in the air during ...
Exercise causes epigenetic changes
Exercise promotes health, reducing most people’s risks of developing diabetes and growing obese. But just how, at a cellular level, ...