Walking for Women Reduces Risk of Strokes

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Women who walk at least three hours a week are much less likely to have a stroke than are those who don’t or who walk less, according to a story in Reuters.

The story is based on new research coming out of Spain.

“The message for the general population remains similar: regularly engaging in moderate recreational activity is good for your health,” lead author José María Huerta of the Murcia Regional Health Authority in Spain told Reuters Health.

Women who were regular walkers saw a 43 percent reduction in stroke risk compared to an inactive group, the study found.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people do at least 150 minutes – or two-and-a-half hours – of moderate exercise, such as brisk walking, per week.

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Slightly High Blood Sugars Are Bad for Your Brain

Having a blood sugar level that’s even on the “high end” of normal could have damaging effects on the brain, a new study suggests.

Researchers from the Australian National University found that people whose blood sugar was in the high end of a normal range (but not yet in the range for diabetes or prediabetes) were more likely to experience brain shrinkage in the hippocampus and amygdala — an effect that normally occurs when a person ages, or experiences dementia.

“These findings suggest that even for people who do not have diabetes, blood sugar levels could have an impact on brain health,” study researcher Nicolas Cherbuin, Ph.D., said in a statement.

The researchers took into account other possible factors like smoking, drinking alcohol, age and high blood pressure, and found that having a normal-high blood sugar level was responsible for 6 to 10 percent of the loss of brain volume.

“If replicated, this finding may contribute to a reevaluation of the concept of normal blood glucose levels and the definition of diabetes,” the researchers wrote in the study.

The study comes on the heels of newly published research in the journalPediatrics showing a link betweenmetabolic syndrome (which includes insulin resistance seen in prediabetes) and obesity in teens with worsened brain functioning.

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