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Vigorous Exercise Slows Aging

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:29:24 GMT

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Clip Source: generationsandwich.blogspot.com

Well, we knew it. Now the studies confirm it. Vigorous walking for an hour a day five times a week can chop a dozen years off the biological age of people 64 and older, according to Roy Shephard, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Toronto, reported online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

A review of recent studies in patients age 64 and older showed that such a regimen can boost maximal oxygen intake by about 25% within three months, effectively decreasing biological age by about 12 years. That sounds good to me!

Labels: aging, exercise

Heavy snow breaking plows in Yellowstone

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:12:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jacksonholenews.com

Yellowstone officials say heavy snow has resulted in the breakdown of two bulldozers as road crews attempt to remove snow from park roads before they open for spring.

Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said this winter stands out as the snowiest in recent memory. “This is the most significant winter in terms of snowfall in years,” he said. “It could be the most snowfall we’ve seen in seven to ten years. For a change we’ve had a normal winter.”

Though cumulative snowfall amounts park-wide weren’t available, Nash said that, during the month of March alone, the park’s South Entrance received 101 inches.

According to Nash, the snow is so deep in some places that the bulldozer operators have to push the snow off the roadway in layers to feed it to rotary plows that then blow it off the road surface.

Save Your Favorite TV Show

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:56:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

It's that time of the year again when flailing television shows need all the help they can get, which is where you come in. Take our survey and vote for the shows you just can't live without next season.

VOTE: Which shows do you want to see back next season?

Clip Source: www.zoomerang.com

Within the next few weeks the networks will determine which of this season's TV series will return next fall. Tell us — and the networks — what you hope happens to these shows. Please select "Keep," "Drop," or "Don't Care" from the tab under each show. We'll reveal the results later this month.

Tags: television, show, save

Rumblings of Calif. 'Big One': 'It's going to happen' by 2037

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:46:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide quake forecast.

New calculations reveal a 99.7% chance that a magnitude-6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97% vs. 93%.

"It basically guarantees it's going to happen," said Ned Field, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Pasadena and lead author of the report.

The damage created by an earthquake depends greatly on where it hits. A magnitude-7.1 quake — much stronger than Northridge — hit the Mojave Desert in 1999 but caused few injuries and no deaths.

The analysis is the first comprehensive effort by the USGS, Southern California Earthquake Center and California Geological Survey to calculate earthquake probabilities for the entire state using newly available data.

Study to Look at Writing as Stress-Reducer Among Alzheimer's Caregivers

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:43:36 GMT

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Clip Source: alzheimersreadingroom.blogspot.com

A University of Iowa researcher is conducting an Internet-based study to see if writing about their thoughts and feelings about care-giving can be a strategy to help those family caregivers reduce their stress.

Participants in the study do not need to be "good writers" or worry about spelling or grammar because it is the effect of the writing that is being studied.