Health, Fitness & Human Performance
Playing the long game with the body.
10 topics · 14 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
World Report on Ageing and Health
World Health Organization · 2015
Reframes healthy ageing around sustained functional ability rather than the absence of disease, and argues preventive health systems should be built…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Anti-aging Science: The Emergence, Maintenance, and Enhancement of a Discipline
Jennifer R. Fishman · 2008
Traces how 'anti-aging medicine' built itself into a credentialed discipline with its own society and journal despite mainstream biogerontology's…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
The IDF Consensus Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
International Diabetes Federation · 2006
Sets a single global diagnostic threshold for metabolic syndrome built around waist circumference rather than BMI, replacing the competing US and WHO…
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12 of 14 works
World Health Organization
Reframes healthy ageing around sustained functional ability rather than the absence of disease, and argues preventive health systems should be built to extend capacity across a lengthening old age rather than just treat its illnesses.
link checked 17 Sept 2026U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Reviews five decades of evidence on how people successfully quit smoking and concludes cessation improves health at any age, even after decades of use and existing smoking-related disease.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jennifer R. Fishman
Traces how 'anti-aging medicine' built itself into a credentialed discipline with its own society and journal despite mainstream biogerontology's rejection of its central claims, arguing the field's legitimacy rests on professional infrastructure rather than evidence its interventions work.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Eileen M. Crimmins
Traces how lifespan has risen faster than healthspan across the twentieth century, so added years increasingly arrive with chronic disease rather than free of it, and argues closing that gap is the real target of preventive health.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Saul Justin Newman
Finds that supposed hotspots of extreme longevity such as the Blue Zones correlate with missing birth registration and pension-fraud incentives rather than any measurable health advantage, undercutting a popular explanation of who lives to 100.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Fiona C. Bull et al.
Sets population-wide activity targets from the dose-response trial evidence on cardiovascular and metabolic risk, and states plainly that any amount of activity is better than none.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Karolina Talar, Alejandro Hernández-Belmonte, Tomas Vetrovsky, Michal Steffl, Ewa Kałamacka & Javier Courel-Ibáñez
Meta-analyses randomised trials of resistance training in adults with pre-frailty, frailty, pre-sarcopenia or sarcopenia and finds strength training improves muscle strength and physical function at every stage, arguing training should start before frailty is diagnosed rather than after.
link checked 17 Sept 2026International Diabetes Federation
Sets a single global diagnostic threshold for metabolic syndrome built around waist circumference rather than BMI, replacing the competing US and WHO definitions that had made cross-national comparison of metabolic syndrome prevalence unreliable.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Chiung-ju Liu & Nancy K. Latham
Reviews controlled trials of progressive resistance training in older adults and concludes it reliably improves physical function, quantifying how much of the popular claim about strength training and ageing the trial evidence actually supports.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Lasse T. Krogsbøll, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen & Peter C. Gøtzsche
Reviews trials of general health checks in unselected adult populations and finds they do not reduce death from any cause, cancer or heart disease, against the common assumption that more screening is always protective.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Tim Stockwell et al.
Re-analyses the studies behind the claim that moderate drinkers outlive abstainers and finds the apparent benefit disappears once former drinkers and other systematic biases are properly excluded from the abstainer comparison group.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Aaron J. Cohen, Michael Brauer, Richard Burnett et al.
Uses the Global Burden of Disease framework to show ambient particulate air pollution's death toll rose over 25 years even as pollution intensity fell in many rich countries, because population ageing and worsening air quality in low- and middle-income countries outpaced the improvement.
link checked 17 Sept 2026