Study finds overweight older people live longer. Really?
From this WebMD article Overweight Older People Live Longer:
“People who carry a few extra pounds after age 70 tend to live longer than people who don’t, new research finds.
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Blood pressure linked to dementia
From this AP article, More blood pressure worry: It's linked to dementia:
Increase bone density by strength training
Many years ago I attended a conference hosted by Arthur Jones, the inventor and owner of Nautilus exercise equipment. He put forth the idea that older women with osteoporosis broke their hips before they hit the 
ground. He said that their bones were so porous that their hip bones gave way first and then they fell.
How to stay young
Thanks to Ann for emailing this.
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. 
That is why you pay 'them'.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
Frail elders respond robustly to resistance training
Between the ages of 20 to 70 it is likely that one will lose up to 30 percent of one's lean muscle mass. That can be reversed with proper strength training. Of all the segments of the population the elderly stand to gain the most from strength training.
Strength training burns calories four ways
Strength training helps you burn calories four ways:
Austin’s GMP growth top in nation
This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live 
and the opportunities presented. From this Austin Business Journal article, Austin’s GMP growth top in nation , comes this quote:
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette
My how times have changed. It make one wonder what we currently accept as normal that will be considered beyond the pale years from now.
http://www.youtube.com/v/gCMzjJjuxQI&hl=en_US&fs=1&
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Kelly’s Austin Personal Trainers
New Orleans Ultimate Fitness Training
My whole life I have been looking for a workout like this
Part of the hiring process for potential trainers at New Orleans Fitness Trainers at Austin Personal Trainers is to go through several workouts to see what is involved with the job. If they are enthusiastic about the workout they often turn out to be good trainers. Marylou is one such trainer. I once asked her, “At one point did you decide this is what you wanted to do? She replied, “After the second exercise”.
The six factors of fitness
The six commonly recognized factors of fitness are:
· Stronger bones
· Cardiovascular efficiency
· Flexibility
· Leanness
· Muscular size, strength, and endurance
· Resistance to injury
You have options for improving each of those factors:
1. You can opt to concentrate on one or two of the factors that you enjoy or that is particularly beneficial to your sport or active and ignore that other factors. You'll not attain as high a level of overall fitness.