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Archive for January, 2010
Yoga: Not Just for Stretching Anymore
On January - 4 - 20101 COMMENT
We’ve written extensively on the benefits of exercise for weight loss, disease prevention and the various ways staying active can help you age against the machine. One of the problems with exercise programs is finding ways to keep them satisfying and interesting. Coming out of several months of super intense cardio, I wanted to reintegrate some of the more satisfying yoga that I’d done in the past.
As part of digging through the scientific literature, I found some remarkable facts about yoga that I hadn’t seen before including one new study that shows yoga benefits even some of the most ill people. Read the rest of this entry »
New Year’s Welcome
On January - 1 - 20101 COMMENT
Happy New Year, and good luck to all of you with health, fitness, or anti-aging resolutions for 2010.
We would like to extend a very special welcome to a new group of readers joining us via their iPhones, users of the weLost Social Weight Loss Network. These users will find our content under the Losin’It tab of the program. Other readers accessing us from their internet-enabled phones will also see Losin’It as the mobile version of our site.
Age Against the Machine provides useful information and coverage of the latest research on not only diet and weight loss, but also other health and anti-aging topics. We stay up-to-date on these topics and try to present them in a way that will be understandable without being watered down. In short, we present health and fitness information you can use.