Anti Depression Guide

A healthy ear emits soft sounds in response to the sounds that travel in. Detectable with sensitive microphones, these otoacoustic emissions help doctors test newborns’ hearing. A deaf ear doesn’t produce these echoes. (Credit: iStockphoto/Stacey Newman)   A healthy ear emits soft sounds in response to the sounds that travel in. Detectable with sensitive microphones, these [...]

Human hair cells. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Virginia Health System) Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear. This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss. Dr. Jeffrey [...]

Take the punishment, reap the reward The moment came midway through filming. A classic action-hero moment, to be sure–the good guy staring down two henchmen, dropping his briefcase, flipping back his leather coat, unholstering twin semiauto handguns, and capping two rounds into each bad guy. Name a cinematic hero and he’s filmed similar scenes: Gary Cooper [...]

The Problem: Home exercise equipment collects dust According to a survey by the Fitness Products Council, 50 million American households own some type of fitness equipment. Trouble is, nearly one-third of it is never used. The Reeveses’ home is no exception. After a few months, they were bored silly with the treadmill they bought for their [...]

Visionaries aren’t identified as such until they’re found facedown on their drawing boards. But when we set out to find the forward thinkers of fitness, we limited our search to the living — and expanded it to include M.D.’s and Ph.D.’s. The result? Five giants of the gym. 1. Micheal A. Clark, D.P.T. Whereas most fitness experts [...]

How do I get started? Start walking for a length of time that feels comfortable–anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. Once you can walk for 30 minutes easily, sprinkle 1- to 2-minute running sessions into your walking. As time goes on, make the running sessions longer, until you’re running for 30 minutes straight. For more running tips, visit our [...]

The typical hard-core lifter looks at exercise machines and thinks: worthless. But that’s not fair. The problem isn’t with the machines; it’s with the lifters. Most men — if they use a machine — don’t venture beyond the faded directions that were slapped on in the factory. Trouble is, an exercise machine circuit repeated day after day, year after year, is [...]

Because of its ability to target the entire core, the Swiss-ball crunch should be a staple in your workout. The exercise primarily works the rectus abdominis, or six-pack muscles, and the transverse abdominis. But when performed properly, it also calls on muscles that stabilize the hips and lower back. Problem is, many men position themselves incorrectly on the ball [...]

Exercise machines weren’t created to punish guys who eat too much. That’s what diets are for. But men spend hours, day after day, churning their arms and legs and waiting for the StairMaster or treadmill to make their bellies vanish. The result: They make it about as far as the average rat. But your machine workout doesn’t have [...]

The days got shorter, the bowl games got longer, the pizzas got bigger, and yesterday you woke up and realized you hadn’t exercised since the lap dance at the office Christmas party. And, come to think of it, you weren’t even the one exercising there. Call it human hibernation. It’s one of the things that link [...]