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FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If the pandemic has shut down your gym, you can still stay or get fit with a simple home exercise plan, researchers say.The Canadian study was modeled on a fitness plan known as "5BX," or Five Basic Exercises, which was originally developed in the 1950s for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The plan doesn't depend on special equipment and can be adjusted to individual fitness levels."A cruel twist of the pandemic is that, at the height of the lockdown, the public health response has largely removed one barrier to fitness but worsened another. Many people have time to spare, but closures and physical distancing provisions have limited access to facilities and equipment," said lead study author Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Tinder, Grindr and other dating apps have a reputation for encouraging casual hookups, but a new study suggests app users may be looking for -- and finding -- love in all the right places after all.Unlike more traditional dating sites such as Match.com and EHarmony, these apps are largely based on rating photos. You swipe right if you like what you see, or left if you don't. It's that simple, which is why many felt they would foster shallow relationships.That wasn't the case for Los Angeles publicist Anthoni Allen-Zouhry, who swiped right when she first saw her now husband's photo on Tinder. They have now been married for close to two years and are expecting their first child. "Love found me," she said. "I was looking for a relationship, but...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If you're a Black man, your risk of getting prostate cancer is 75% higher than it is for a white man, and it's more than twice as deadly.Now, research is helping to bring genetic risks for people of various racial and ethnic groups into focus. In doing so, dozens more risk factors that could better help pinpoint the odds of developing prostate cancer have been uncovered. And that could potentially lead to better screening protocols and earlier detection for men of all races, experts said."The potential utility of this is that it can be used to define men who are at elevated risk of developing prostate cancer," said lead author Christopher Haiman, professor of preventive medicine at Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern...

THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If your children are well-behaved, do they stand a greater chance of having healthy, happy lives as adults?A new study says yes.After tracking just over 1,000 New Zealanders from birth to the age of 45, investigators found that kids who were goal-oriented and better able to restrain their thoughts, behavior and emotions turned out to have healthier bodies and brains by the time they hit middle age."We found that as adults, at age 45, children with better self-control aged more slowly," said study author Leah Richmond-Rakerd, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. "Their bodies and brains were healthier and biologically younger. We also found that they had developed more health, financial and social...