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Cardiovascular

Red Hot Chili Peppers

by pribut on August 10, 2010

Red hot chili peppers just might be good for you. An article in the current issue of “Science Signaling” (Aug 10, 2010. Vol 3, Issue 134, p ec241) summarizes two articles and gives the details.
Capsaicin, in chili peppers, is what makes them taste hot. For several years it has been used in topical creams that [...]

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Getting Off On The Right Foot

by pribut on January 1, 2009

Each year the calendar starts afresh, but hangovers linger from the last year. What you are right now, you’ve been building to, or fallen to by virtue of what you’ve done over the last year. This holds for you as an individual, and for bigger things like the economy.
Many say it is not good to [...]

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Genetics: A Part of the Big Picture

by pribut on December 30, 2008

Training, dedication, and hard work (along with a good diet and a bit of rest carefully added) will go far in helping you improve your conditioning and body composition. Your performance will increase. But for most of us, we will not become world class athletes, or even national class athletes. That is no reason not [...]

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Running & Being and Running & Dying

by pribut on November 3, 2007

George Sheehan’s book “Running & Being” is one that every dedicated runner should read. George, a cardiologist, and one of the early, great running philosophers and gurus has been an inspiration to all old school runners.
Many years back, some people, Jim Fixx included, thought that running marathons would give an immunity to fatal heart disease. [...]

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