Musculature and osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease that affects many women during the menopause. It is also increasingly being diagnosed in men as they get older. While it is true for almost all diseases that the frequency and severity of occurrence can be favorably influenced by endurance training, such results are unfortunately not […]
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People who move a lot live better. Many of you will come to this conclusion if you compare the couch potatoes in your circle of acquaintances with those who regularly take part in sporting activities. The latter are almost always in a better mood. A large representative study in Colorado from 2007 * shows
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Physical performance and lifespan There are countless studies on this topic. All of them unanimously show that physical performance clearly correlates with lifespan! If we had any drug in medicine that showed even a halving of the risk of death when taken, practically everyone would take it. In medicine, we are usually proud when
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Physical performance and intelligence mens sana in corpore sano Juvenal already said (shortened quote). The translation to “In a healthy body lives also a healthy mind” was shamefully misused by the National Socialists. There are many highly intelligent people who are anything but physically fit! The time when people were judged – on their intelligence
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People who move a lot live longer! There is a lot of evidence for this statement in the scientific literature. At this point, the results of Hakim and colleagues from 1998 should be quoted as a representative example. (Hakim et al.: NEJM 1998, 338: 94 Effects of walking on mortality among nonsmoking retired men)
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Sport and diabetes There is no better and more committed way than Hans Lauber, who himself suffered from “adult-onset diabetes”, to describe how exercise can defeat diabetes, at least in the early stages! A book worth reading for anyone with a family history of type II, i.e. “old-age” diabetes; a call to get plenty
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