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Cramping your style

by Alison, on 20 July 2012, Healthy Legs, Varicose veins, Herbal Remedies
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Painful, unpredictable and, when happening at night, severely disruptive of sleep, leg cramps can be caused by a variety of factors.

• Varicose veins
• Sudden increase or decrease in physical exercise
• Dehydration
• Lack of magnesium causing poor absorption of calcium

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How fast does the Grim Reaper walk?

by Alison, on 26 January 2012, Exercise, Memory & Circulation
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In Sydney, Australia, a group of doctors and researchers working in geriatric medicine decided to see if they could work out how fast the Grim Reaper walks . . .

Bear with me: they had a valid aim, however morbid it may seem.

The study, in collaboration with the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP), probed the link between walking speed and mortality in elderly men, humorously supposing that the Grim Reaper has a maximum walking speed and if one was able to walk faster than him (assuming that the Grim Reaper is male), you will be able to outrun death.

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