Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...irds tracked ). Already, several birds have logged marathon flights including a 4,172-mile round trip to Alaska's Aleutian Islands and a 5,348-mile round trip to the San Francisco Bay. Someof the birds have even returned to the same location on successive feeding trips. "My motivation for doing this is t...Scientists say vitamin C may alleviate the body's response to stress
...e of stress-related upper-respiratoryinfections in marathon runners. Recommending a sharper look at the present RDA, Campbell said he believes thatour prehistoric ancestors probably consumed large amounts of vitamin C in atropical diet rich in fruits. "If so, the physiological constitution we haveinherited...UF nutritionist: Better to vow to eat healthy for new year
...y should not expect to be able to go out and run a marathon and similarly, she said diet changes should be made slowly. "People should think about starting off slowly, incorporating new foods and maybe cutting down on some of the foods that are not so positive," Bobroff said. Bobroff said a new food...UCSF study finds danger in marathon runners drinking too much water
Drinking too much water while running a marathon can kill you. That may sound like a rumor passed ...e of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Although marathon runners need to keep hydrated, in the last decade physicians have come to realize that a few hours o...Nanofabricated 'gel' separates DNA
...ause the larger fragments move faster, it's like a marathon race in which a bunch of the fattest runners show up first, followed by successive groups of progressively thinner runners, with everyone of a particular size arriving more or less together. The DNA strands are tagged with a fluorescent material, and......his could slice around 4 minutes off the time of a marathon runner. "That's the difference between finishing first or twenty-second," says Nigg. "We have athletes that have tuned spiked shoes at the Olympics. We think we will see some world records." The new shoes emerged from research into the damaging effe...... Oslo, gave the findings of a Finnish survey of 58 marathon runners. The study showed that 15 of the runners (26%) exhibited seasonal bronchial contraction, either in the spring on account of the pollen, or in winter due to the cold. The same research group confirmed the findings with a study of 71 long-dista...For the longest distance runner, that tired feeling may not be due to central fatigue
...thon is any running event longer than the standard marathon distance of 42 kilometers, 195 meters (26 miles, 385 feet). Dedicated runners from around the world take up the challenge of this long distance event. For even the most in-shape participants, a race of this distance can last from six to nine hours....Biologist unlocks secrets of winter survival
...the human body. A veteran natural history writer, marathon runner and author of eight books, Heinrich was inspired to write "Winter World" by the course in winter ecology he teaches to University of Vermont students each year. In uncomplicated and engrossing language that will appeal to both natural history...Get your blood moving: Increased blood flow could lead to healthier blood vessels
...ted blood flow. We're not talking about running a marathon here, we're just talking about getting the blood moving at high arterial levels," said Diamond. It is the first direct evidence that the mechanical effects of blood flow have anti-inflammatory properties. According to their findings, shear stress can...Brain study shows some animals crave exercise
...ll know someone who can't get enough exercise: the marathon runner who jogged 26 miles in all 50 states, the neighbor who speed walks at the crack of dawn or the cyclist who zooms by every Sunday. We might say these people are addicted to physical activity. But the debate on exercise addiction has remained la...EGFR: A molecular lab rat let loose in systems biology
... -- not unlike a long-distance runner pacing for a marathon as opposed to, say, the 60-meter-dash of the high-affinity molecule. The systems approach, he says, also forces "us to be better molecular biologists." In order to test a model that calls for a mathematically precise solution, Wiley and his colleag...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...ulin resistance and diabetes in obese people. The marathon mice lived up to their nickname when Evans and his...running out of steam, said Evans. In addition, the marathon mouse runs an hour longer than the 90 minutes that a normal mouse runs, he said. It was especially ...... to prevent obesity and turns laboratory mice into marathon runners, a Salk Institute study has found. The discovery of the switch could lead to treatments for obesity and disorders associated with it, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The study, led by professor Ronald Evans and his postdoctoral f...