The Best and Worst Exercises for Your Knees. Here’s what to do if achy knees limit your ability to
This article from SilverSneakers.com. Some things get better with age—wine, parenthood, and Jane Fonda, to name a few. Unfortunately, your knees are not one of them. “Overuse is one of the main causes of knee pain,” says Lisa Woods, a personal trainer and yoga teacher in Colorado. And the older we get, the more we’ve used them. It’s a similar story for those with osteoarthritis, which affects 10 percent of men and 13 percent of women aged 60 and older. “Osteoarthritis is a fo
Closest Thing To a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/upshot/why-you-should-exercise-no-not-to-lose-weight.html Aaron E. Carroll THE NEW HEALTH CARE JUNE 20, 2016 After I wrote last year that diet, not exercise, was the key to weight loss, I was troubled by how some readers took this to mean that exercise therefore had no value. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of all the things we as physicians can recommend for health, few provide as much benefit as physical activity. In 2015, the Aca
