General Health

Following up on yesterday’s post, another study of over 100 obese children reported in Clinical Pediatrics found that more than half were overweight by 24 months of age and 90% were overweight by the age of five. Researchers are not sure about the reasons for rapid weight gain early in life, but contributing factors are...
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OK, IDigFitness fans. Time for some sobering information if you’re a parent. The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on a long term study of nearly 5,000 children. The results show that children who are obese are more than twice as likely to die before age 55 than their non-obese friends. So,...
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As you know if you’re a regular reader of the IDigFitness Blog, one of our core philosophies is, “if you dig it, you’ll do it.”  Translated, that means if your workouts are something you dread, you’re not going to do them, but if they’re something you enjoy, then they’ll get done. Well, I don’t know...
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Did you know that studies have shown a definite link between high intensity sporting events and the incidence of coronary events – heart attacks?  And I’m not talking about the participants.  I’m talking about the spectators. You’ve seen how intense some spectators are about their favorite sports teams.  Well, sometimes that intensity raises blood pressure,...
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According to a report in Journal of Internal Medicine, Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that some activity may be better than none at all for certain areas of your health like heart health, but milder forms of activity may not be sufficient to hold off or attenuate age-related decline in...
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