Two more reasons to exercise — and one to get off your buzzing butt.
Researchers at York University in Toronto have found that exercise may help people with asthma. At least those adults whose asthma isn’t fully controlled by meds.
In a study published online June 7 in the European Respiratory Journal, researchers took 36 sedentary adults with asthma symptoms that were only partially controlled. Half were put on three months of supervised exercise — jogging, walking on a treadmill, pedaling a stationary bike three times a week, strength training once a week — the other half went about their sedentary lives. At the end of the three months of supervised exercise, that half of the control group continued to workout on their own. At the end of both the three month and six month periods, the exercisers reported improvement in their overall quality of life, especially the parts of it that, during their more leisurely days, had been affected by their asthma.read more
OK, so technically, at 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of daylight there’s only one second of daylight more than there was yesterday and three more than there will be tomorrow. And we won’t be seeing appreciable changes in the length of day until late August. But spiritually, emotionally, physically, it’s important to know that today you have 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of daylight (or 15 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds if you count civil twilight) to work with. Taking full advantage of that 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds, you could, conceivably:read more
Usually when you think of taking an escape into the wild, you assume a long drive to an obscure trail that navigates rugged terrain, frequently loses its way through dense undergrowth, involves waist-deep stream crossings and surprises you with wild critters at every opportunity. With the Lower Haw River Trail, located on the outskirts of the booming Triangle, you get all of that without the long drive.read more
There’s a good chance that a team of four cyclists from Cary-based Bandwidth.com will live up to their slogan of “5 and Change” and finish Race Across America (a k a RAAM) sometime today. There’s a similarly good chance that by day’s end Carrboro endurance mountain bike racer Matthew Lee will continue to lead this year’s Tour Divide.read more
On Memorial Day, I was on a two-hour ride into the Wake County countryside. At the light on Green Hope High School Road and NC 55, a retro-ish looking Trek tandem pulled up next to me, dad in the pilot’s seat, son behind him in the stoker’s seat. “My son’s autistic,” the dad began. “This is a great way for us to get out and explore together.” Their rides, he said, were generally in the 20- to 25-mile range and inevitably wound up at McDonald’s. The two couldn’t have looked more content.read more