Increasing V02 Max, Protecting Against Disabilities, and Calling Out Bad Meat-Veggie Research

The latest health news we're covering this week:

• How Vitamin D may just be the juice you need to take strength and cardio training to the next level
• The health impact of pet ownership
• How having a sibling with a disability improves empathy
• What you see before you die
• The never-ending nutritionally debate between meat and veggies 

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• Vitamin D supplementation improved cardiorespiratory fitness and upper limb muscle strength in adult twin study.
• Long-term pet owners showed the strongest difference in score, declining the slowest among all groups.
• Dog owners had a 54% decreased risk of developing a disability compared to non-pet owners.
• Siblings of children with disabilities may have greater cognitive empathy
• Before death life may really flash before your eyes. 
• Eating vegetables does not protect against cardiovascular disease, finds large-scale study
• Total meat intake associated with increased life expectancy, based on a cross-sectional analysis of 175 contemporary populations.
• Vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, study finds

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