The Great Ganesha

An article in yesterday’s Times says that too much marathoning might just be a bad thing. What? After all I’ve said about how much running is good for you? Well, it’s not quite that simple. Running is still good for you, however, After years in which almost no deaths were attributed to heart attacks at [...]

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Heh! I bet the title caught your eye, eh? [Wink wink, nudge nudge] Sort of like the last time I blogged about Britney Spears being nude in NYC! Well, all the various national interest groups with ‘Family’ in their name can rest easy. I’m not talking about all the bonking that went on between Hugh [...]

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Being a regular tea-drinker (one cup in the afternoon of some fine home-brewed masala chai, everyday), an article in today’s BBC News caught my eye. They say that tea is much more beneficial to one’s health than was previously thought. Of course, these days almost everything either causes cancer or a heart attack. Everything except [...]

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Are you one of those cynical people who sit on park benches and laugh at the joggers who pass you? “Ha!” you scoff, “We’re all going to die anyway!” Berating all joggers, you wait patiently for the next one to die of a heart attack, at which point you will say, with smug satisfaction, “What [...]

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Every year, there is a series of four races that take place across the globe. The only difference between this series and other series is that these are 100-mile runs across four of the world’s deserts. The last one, is called the the Last Desert competition and it’s in Antarctica. Part spiritual quest, part kamikaze [...]

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If you’re a fitness freak, then you should already know that muscle soreness is not caused by lactic acid, and neither is lactic acid buildup a bad thing. In fact, lactic acid is actually a fuel and muscles produce it directly from glucose, burning it to produce energy. The understanding now is that muscle cells [...]

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For you distance-running, techno-lovers, I found this podcast from a runner-friendly DJ. DJ Steveboy creates 1-2 hour long podcasts, also listing the beats-per-minute of the track. Pretty cool. Incidentally, there is pretty solid evidence that the right kind of music can enhance athletic performance. This meta-analytic study (that means an analysis of other people’s analysis) [...]

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A new study shows that running alone might cause neural degeneration in rats. But when the same rats ran in a group, there was neural generation. So running alone is bad for you. Ok, I say. Then run with a rat. Caveat: For you long distance runners out there (myself included), we don’t have to [...]

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