By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. More than 40 percent of North American adults are seriously overweight, which puts them at high risk for heart attacks, diabetes, certain cancers and premature death (Population Studies, Feb 9, 2023;77(1)). Researchers at Boston University have explained how being obese is a major cause of heart attacks and death from heart attacks by preventing the bad … [Read more...] about How Excess Weight Causes Heart Attacks
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Is Retirement Dangerous to My Cycling?
Question: Because of my work schedule, I have ridden sporadically for the last 20 years, logging about 1,500 miles annually and doing one or two centuries just for fun. Last winter I took early retirement and decided to devote full time to cycling. I rode 5,000 miles in 8 months and improved fast. But now I’m tired and can’t stand the thought of hammering with the young … [Read more...] about Is Retirement Dangerous to My Cycling?
Experiment of One, pt. 2
By Coach John Hughes You’re unique. You’re similar to other riders in some ways and differ in other ways. In these Experiment of One columns I give you a number of different Anti-Aging columns from which you can read the ones most applicable to the unique you. “I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill … [Read more...] about Experiment of One, pt. 2
What is better to use while riding? Energy bars, gels or energy drinks?
QUESTION: What is better to use while riding? Energy bars, gels or energy drinks? —Tom C. RBR’S STAN PURDUM REPLIES: Since all three deliver a good dose of carbohydrates, which are what you need to keep energy flowing while you ride, it doesn’t make a lot of difference whether you use bars, gels or energy drinks, provided you also drink water with the gels and bars. The … [Read more...] about What is better to use while riding? Energy bars, gels or energy drinks?
What Cycling Shares in Common With Potassium Chloride
And How That Similarity Should Guide Everything Related to Your Rides By Kevin Kolodziejski The quick and clever comeback that shuts up the guy trying to make a fool out of you. Can there be anything more verbally memorable — or pleasurable to recall — than that? Based on the fact that a former teaching colleague I hadn’t seen in years remembered such a two-word … [Read more...] about What Cycling Shares in Common With Potassium Chloride