RantWoman of Age

Anish Moonka on X: "Three-minute squat breaks every 45 minutes kept blood sugar lower than a single 30-minute walk during a long day of sitting. Three-minute walking breaks on the same schedule worked just as well. Eighteen young men with overweight or obesity, average age 21, completed four 8.5-hour days of sitting at Zhejiang University in China, in random order. On one day they sat the whole time. On another they took one 30-minute walk. On the other two, they got up every 45 minutes, 10 times in all, for 3 minutes of either walking or squats. All the active days burned the same amount of energy. The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports published the study in 2024. Glucose monitors worn all day showed that any movement beat nonstop sitting. Squat breaks and walking breaks both brought lower blood sugar after meals than the single long walk, with matching results. Stronger activity in the quadriceps, the big muscles on the front of the thigh, and in the butto...

#arthritis #osteoposis #BoneDensity  Progressive resistance training stairs incline walking loaded carry which also improves grip strength multidimensional exercise. True confession: RantWoman does not always watch videos. In this case, RantWoman has a decent idea of what the first four recommendations refer to but the multidimensional exercise is not obvious. Plus as a low vision person, pickleball has ZERO appeal. However when RantWoman did look at the video, it seems like tai chi or other martial arts might encompass enough variable motion to get benefit.  Is RantWoman going to go out on the internet and look for studies about "does tai chi help increase bone density?" The first question of course: do such studies exist? And a bonus Top 5 Muscles To Train As You Age

#Amazon   Do NOT mess with my capacity to wash dishes Where the F is my dish soap--and my Archway Molasses Cookies, and my Cherry Lime LaCroix AND MY PONYTAIL HOLDERS. Cue to Amazon: RantWoman DID NOT RECEIVE ANY OF THESE ITEMS. Read on for what RantWoman has to say about the delivery issues including the face that the app does not appear to offer any way to say Rantwoman wants these items replaced ASAP. Look. RantWoman knows that anyone olde enough to be conscious on September 11, 2001 probably has their social media streams full of horror and heroism. Sometimes though the RantWoman department of First World Problems and Unsolicited Free Advice just NEEDS TO GO OFF. Easy RantWoman. Easy. Think Mr. Spock and #LLAP. Breathe. Dang it. RantWoman already talked to her plants several times today, but RantWoman HAS OPINIONS. The source of today's ire: the phrase "Delivery facilitated by Amazon." The first problem with this occurred a few days before the non-delivered items abov...

RantWoman is in Trust but verify. Vitamin B12? Vitamin D and hypercalcemia and people in norther climates being Vitamin D deficient.  Fat soluble Vitamins A, D,E, K beta carotene; higher rates of lots of issues Vitamin A / retinol. reduces bone mineral density, toxicity Niacin: liver damage, niacin flush folic acid can mask Vitamin B12 deficiency. Vitamin E: research does not back up claims. High doses can worse bleeding. Good, needed Vitamin b12: 1000 units /day Vitamin d: check first and then treat when with calcium. High doses can cause hypercalcemia. Omega 3 fatty acids multivitamins: marginal reduction in cancer risk