People who claim changes in strength or gait are the best indicators of aging don't have a leg to stand on, going by tests carried out at the Mayo Clinic in the US.The clinic's doctors say that the ...
New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and body fat provides key insights into strength and longevity that the scale ...
As you age, you lose muscle mass and your body becomes less efficient in converting food into energy – a process that leads to the well-documented ‘middle-aged spread’ that often happens after you ...
After that, I continued to run shorter distances— 5Ks and 10Ks—in the Bay Area where I live. I had an Achilles rupture in 1999 that took nine months to recover from, but I continued trail running and ...