You need to be eating more flavonoids, according to a recent Danish study. Researchers looked at over 56,000 people for a whopping 23 years and here is what they found, according to this article: After controlling for smoking, hypertension, cholesterol and many other health and dietary factors, they found that compared with people in the lowest one-fifth for flavonoid intake, those in the highest one-fifth had a 17 percent reduced risk for all-cause mortality, a 15 percent reduced risk for cardiovascular disease death, and a 20 percent reduced risk for cancer mortality. The association peaked ..read more

One of the things about exercise that we like to tell ourselves is that sooner or later we’ll get used to it. One day we’ll wake up and the idea of going to the gym will be second nature for us. And maybe one day it will. But if you are struggling to workout today, finally feeling motivated may not happen for a long while. At least, that is what a new study is telling us. Canadian researchers corralled nearly 300 middle-aged adults who didn’t exercise and tried to get them to exercise three times a week for a year. It didn’t go well, according to this article: …more than 60 per cent of the stu ..read more

A new study looking at both primates and men may hold some very novel, and important, insights about how our hearts work. Humans share traits and genetic material with gorillas. Harvard researchers wanted to understand how our hearts differ from primates as humans are built for endurance. For years these researchers scanned the hearts of chimps and took their blood pressure at nature preserves and did heart scans on gorillas at zoos. They also did the same for a group of men; Harvard football players, Harvard runners, workers in Mexico and some younger men who didn’t exercise at all. And what ..read more

Building muscle is one of the most important things you can do for your health, especially when you get older and you start to lose muscle mass every year. But a new study shows that if you’re overweight then adding muscle may be even more of a struggle. Researchers looked at 18 people, nine of them obese and nine of them in the normal range for weight. None of them were avid exercise people,  meaning they fell far below the amount of recommended exercise. The subjects were tested and and given biopsies throughout the study, and they were asked to do a leg exercise that was strenuous eno ..read more

We have written often about the great things you can get from doing high-intensity exercise; makes you feel great, helps reduce risk of disease, burns calories efficiently, can be fun. But there are a couple negative aspects of high intensity fitness we should note. 1. Injury risk. There is a higher risk to injury when doing high-intensity exercise. You are more likely to strain a joint or muscle when jogging or sprinting than if youâ€re walking. Some high-intensity programs like CrossFit wear certain injuries like a badge of honor. At Cardio High we view injuries as something to be avoided at ..read more

Can you make a difference in your health by simply removing 300 calories per day from your diet? It’s harder than you think, but it could mean huge benefits. Scientists recruited 143 men and women, from 21-50, and asked them to cut their calories daily by 25 percent for two years. Almost no one could do it. Instead, the average subject cut about 12%, or 300 calories, out of their daily meals. And it was actually pretty great for them, according to this article: They lost weight and body fat. Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood pressure fell slightly, and they had better blood sugar ..read more

One of the things about exercise that we like to tell ourselves is that sooner or later we’ll get used to it. One day we’ll wake up and the idea of going to the gym will be second nature for us. And maybe one day it will. But if you are struggling to workout today, finally feeling motivated may not happen for a long while. At least, that is what a new study is telling us. Canadian researchers corralled nearly 300 middle-aged adults who didn’t exercise and tried to get them to exercise three times a week for a year. It didn’t go well, according to this article: …more than 60 per cent of the stu ..read more

A new study looking at both primates and men may hold some very novel, and important, insights about how our hearts work. Humans share traits and genetic material with gorillas. Harvard researchers wanted to understand how our hearts differ from primates as humans are built for endurance. For years these researchers scanned the hearts of chimps and took their blood pressure at nature preserves and did heart scans on gorillas at zoos. They also did the same for a group of men; Harvard football players, Harvard runners, workers in Mexico and some younger men who didn’t exercise at all. And what ..read more

Standing has become so important nowadays, that maybe all you have to do is stand, right? As long as you reduce sitting, could your new desk be the replacement for your gym? Probably not, according to a new study. Researchers in the Netherlands found 61 men and women, all of whom did not exercise. And what they had them do was pretty interesting, to say the least. According to this article: …the researchers had each volunteer complete three distinct, four-day sessions of living calculatedly exaggerated lifestyles. During one, the men and women sat for 14 hours a day, their chair time interr ..read more

Building muscle is one of the most important things you can do for your health, especially when you get older and you start to lose muscle mass every year. But a new study shows that if you’re overweight then adding muscle may be even more of a struggle. Researchers looked at 18 people, nine of them obese and nine of them in the normal range for weight. None of them were avid exercise people,  meaning they fell far below the amount of recommended exercise. The subjects were tested and and given biopsies throughout the study, and they were asked to do a leg exercise that was strenuous enou ..read more