Adidas Train & Run

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Cold weather running - what I've learned
You want to be warm without sweating so much you get a chill. The rule of thumb is to dress as if it is 20 degrees warmer. You should be slightly cool when you start.Think layers of technical fabrics, to wick sweat, with zippers at the neck and underarm area to vent air as you heat up.

Your core body temperature drops as soon as you stop running. To avoid a lingering case of the chills, change your clothes as soon as you can. Women need to get out of damp sports bras quickly. Put a dry hat on wet hair. And drink something hot.

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Want a younger brain? Stay in school — and take the stairs

Want a younger brain? Stay in school — and take the stairs
Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain’s health too — and that education also has a positive effect.

In a study recently published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, researchers led by Jason Steffener, a scientist at Concordia’s PERFORM Centre, show that the more flights of stairs a person climbs, and the more years of school a person completes, the “younger” their brain physically appears.

The researchers found that brain age decreases by 0.95 years for each year of education, and by 0.58 years for every daily flight of stairs climbed — i.e., the stairs between two consecutive floors in a building.

Article:
http://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/main/releases/2016/03/09/perform-centre-jason-steffener-take-the-stairs-and-stay-in-school-for-a-younger-brain.html

Paper:
http://www.neurobiologyofaging.org/article/S0197-4580(16)00023-3/abstract

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Working Up A Sweat May Protect Men From Lethal Prostate Cancer

Working Up A Sweat May Protect Men From Lethal Prostate Cancer
A study that tracked tens of thousands of midlife and older men for more than 20 years has found that vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits may cut their chances of developing a lethal type of prostate cancer by up to 68 %.

While most prostate cancers are “clinically indolent,” meaning they do not metastasize and are nonlife-threatening, a minority of patients are diagnosed with aggressive disease that invades the bone and other organs, and is ultimately fatal. Lead author Stacey Kenfield, ScD, of UCSF, and a team of researchers at UCSF and Harvard, focused on this variant of prostate cancer to determine if exercise, diet and smoke-free status might have life-saving benefits.

Source & further reading:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/11/253051/working-sweat-may-protect-men-lethal-prostate-cancer

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Study Reveals Connection between Fitness Level, Brain Activity, and Executive Function

Study Reveals Connection between Fitness Level, Brain Activity, and Executive Function
The aging process is associated with declines in brain function, including memory and how fast our brain processes information, yet previous research has found that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults leads to better executive function in the brain, which helps with reasoning and problem solving. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels have also been found to increase brain volume in key brain regions.

A new study from a team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois reveals the connection between brain activation, cardiorespiratory fitness, and executive function in older adults, finding that dual-task processing in a core executive function brain region is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness and dual-task performance.

PR:
http://beckman.illinois.edu/news/2015/09/fitness-level-brain-activity-executive-function

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