Blood Pressure and Heart Size in Athletes

In 1976, 413 high school runners in Finland competed in a 2000-meter race. At the time of the race and in a follow-up study twenty-five years later, the faster runners had much lower blood pressures than the slower ones (International Journal of Sports Medicine, July-August 2005.) The researchers wanted to know whether a maximal endurance […]

Mobile Video Trends You Can’t Ignore

With smart phone usage rising steadily both in the U.S. and worldwide there’s been a lot of buzz about mobile video lately. Whether they’re viewing graphics, playing games, watching movies or short snippets of shows, cell phone users are gravitating to a medium that most marketers have yet to tap. According to Nielsen’s Three Screen […]