By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A simple spoonful of peanut butter each day improved lower-body muscle power in older adults, but the ...

Go nuts over this news. Diet plays a large role in longevity and healthy aging, not to mention adding necessary fuel for larger muscle growth. While meat is often the first line of attack at staving ...

A clinical trial by researchers at Deakin University's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) in Melbourne, ...

Those in the peanut butter group performed better on this test. However, similar improvements were not seen in tests of gait speed, stepping tests and tests where people were asked to stand up from a ...

You need more than strength to age well — you also need power. Here’s how to measure how much you have. By Amanda Loudin For seven years, the author has devoted three to four weekly sessions to ...

New research has found the nutrient-rich spread has one key benefit ...

Sarcopenia – the gradual decline in skeletal muscle mass, strength, power, and capacity that occurs with age – is familiar to nearly all. What individuals do not know is that sarcopenia may start as ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...