Interesting Stuff

From SportsGeezer:

• 40 Percent of Boomers Have Mobility Problems  Baby Boomers, people now in their 50s and 60s, are less mobile than people who were in their 50s and 60s a decade ago. That's the bad news from Health Affairs, whose April issue publishes a study ...
• Healthwise, April Is the Weirdest Month  T.S Eliot said April is the cruelest month. Geezer says it's the weirdest, at least as far as our bodies are concerned. In April, as spring fattens the days, strange things happen to our bodies: Seasonal ...
• Walking Cuts Stroke Risk By One-Third  Walking, even if it's not perfect, turns out to be a perfectly good way to cut the risk of stroke. The American Heart Association reports that a 12-year-long study conducted in large part at the Harvard ...
• Experts Say Exercise Should Be Prescribed for Depression  Can exercise chase away the blues? Jasper Smits, director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas thinks so. So does Michael Otto, psychology professor ...
• Cola May Weaken Bones of Women Women who are concerned about preserving bone density may want to think about canning the cola, so to speak. The Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter reports that when researchers at Tufts Dietary Assessment ...