the plank Five years ago, singer Cher, then 71, bragged about her ability to hold a plank for five minutes. If true, that impressive score is about five times higher than the typical “good” benchmark: movement is now a common metric for fitness. Placing your forearms on the ground, your body raised, and your weight … Read more
But meat, the kind of high-welfare meat that Buxton would like us all to eat, is expensive. “That’s because our food system is biased. If I were designing policies to make it affordable to eat right, I would tax the most processed stuff and empty carbs and junk and subsidize regeneratively farmed eggs and meat, … Read more
Jessica Bayes, from the University of Technology Sydney and principal investigator of this latest study, said: “These results highlight the important role of nutrition for the treatment of depression and should inform the advice given by clinicians to this specific demographic. “The main focus was to increase diet quality with fresh whole foods, while reducing … Read more
The time of day made less of a difference for men, who saw strength increase either in the morning or at night. But exercising later in the day was found to do more to improve heart health in men and to improve their metabolic health, reducing the risk of conditions such as obesity, type 2 … Read more
To decide which is the best protein powder for you, it helps to ask yourself: what are protein powders by? Protein is a necessary nutrient throughout the body to help build, repair and maintain tissue. It’s made up of chains of amino acids, nine of which are called “essential” since your body can’t make them … Read more
But as the body becomes more squeaky and lazy, what exactly is considered a safe practice? Should we really aspire to run marathons or build pecs in our old age? Gray insists that we should. “It’s good to challenge yourself at any age. After the pandemic, many older people lost confidence in connecting with other … Read more
Price thinks part of the reason is that exercise messaging has gotten too complicated. “I feel like the notion of ‘moderate exercise’ is misunderstood a bit, making it seem unattainable for some demographics,” he says. His goal is to simplify the messages and empower us all to start moving more. When I tried one of … Read more
Can you walk and read at the same time? Great, get up then, we’ll do this on the move and energetically. Faster than that. Think: “Meetings in the West Wing Corridor.” Think: “The owner is trying to keep up with the Border Collie at Crufts without really starting to run.” Okay, now carry on like … Read more