Katy Weinberg was 25 in 2006, a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia teaching HIV awareness and prevention, when she stumbled upon what would become the backbone of her current project: recruiting and training artists, especially musicians, to get vital public health messages out to the public.
Archives for March 2020
Don’t Take This Pandemic Sitting Down
Okay, fess up. Are you sitting around just waiting for COVID-19 to go away? Chances are we all are losing fitness by the day, and that we are all sitting even more than we usually do, which is bad enough, as I discuss in my new book Exercise is Medicine.
How the Epigenetic Clock Can Predict Age
A couple of weeks ago, before we got seriously distracted by COVID-19, I wrote in this blog about new research that scientists in Europe, the United States, and beyond have done to pin down the exact mechanisms associated with aging.
Coronavirus? Keep Exercising Anyway
Okay, folks. It’s exercise-and-coronavirus time
To be honest, I was going to write about something totally different today.
But since we’re all cooped up for the foreseeable future and since our bodies (and minds) still need exercise, herewith some thoughts on how to get at least the minimum (30 minutes a day, five days a week) to keep from falling apart during this difficult time.
The Mystery of Aging
Here’s something to ponder: From an evolutionary biology point of view, is aging just one big accident?