Running Strong

Get your running shoes on and get ready to be inspired. Ida Keeling, a 95-year-old great-grandmother from the Bronx, set a sprinting world record with a time of 29.86 seconds in the 60-meter year dash last week in Manhattan. And this isn’t her first record-breaking time. Three years ago, Keeling set a record for the 90-and-over age group by running 50 meters in 31.80 seconds.

Walking May Lower Mortality Risk in Prostate Cancer

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Prostate cancer survivors can literally walk themselves to a lower risk of dying of the disease -- with some men achieving an almost 50% lower mortality risk, data from a large cohort study showed.

The study, involving more than 2,000 survivors of nonmetastatic prostate cancer, found those who walked at a normal to brisk pace for at least 90 minutes a week had a 46% lower mortality hazard -- and three or more hours of vigorous physical activity each week lowered the hazard to 49%, according to Stacey A. Kenfield, ScD, of the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.

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