by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 8, 2022 | Fitness
A review of 16 major studies found that just thirty minutes a week of strength training is associated with up to a 20 percent reduced risk for dying from any cause, or from cancer, heart disease or diabetes. Adding aerobic exercise reduced risk for dying by 40 percent...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 1, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Jackie Gleason was the most famous television actor of his time and he was so hilarious that reruns of his shows and movies are still popular today. • At age 33, he became Chester A. Riley in the television production of “The Life of Riley.” • At age 36,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 29, 2022 | Fitness
A prospective study of 78,500 men and women, ages 40-79, used wrist accelerometers to see whether daily step counts and measurements of intensity would predict future heart attacks or cancers (JAMA Intern Med, September 12, 2022). They were followed for an average of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 29, 2022 | Nutrition
Researchers followed more than 934,000 cancer-free people for 34 years, during which more than 135,000 died from cancer. Those who drank more than two sugar-sweetened beverages per day were at increased risk for death from 20 different cancers (Cancer, Epidemiology,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
In the year 2000, a C-SPAN Poll ranking all U.S. Presidents was conducted by 58 presidential historians and scholars. Harry S. Truman ranked fifth behind Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Truman and Winston Churchill were...
