Working out delays effects of aging Many people think of stiff joints and slow movement as just normal parts of aging, but if people keep up healthy, active lifestyles as they age, they can ward off some of those health problems, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. People of any age can star...

The self-defeating “I exercise, therefore I nosh” syndrome Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana were surprised, and you may be, too. They had conducted a research program that took three groups of overweight women and had them engage in different levels o...

Twice as much potassium as sodium cuts heart risk Getting twice as much potassium as you do sodium could cut your risk of death from cardiovascular disease in half. That’s the conclusion of a study from Loyola University Health System in Chicago, which looked at people who weren’t asked to chang...

Sprints may be best for diabetes prevention If one of your goals in working out is to reduce your risk of developing diabetes, experts say just a few minutes of intense exercise may do the trick. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh found that working out hard for as little as 7.5 minu...

Cold hard reality Along with all the temptations and opportunities to overconsume food that are provided during the late fall and winter months — Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Superbowl Sunday, Valentine’s Day — there is another factor at work making it harder for the ...

Brits hoping to work off some of that baby fat How worried are they in Britain about the soaring obesity rates among children? This worried: some municipalities are ginning up “movercise” exercise programs for young kids, and by “young,” they mean as early as one year old. Th...

Most young kids’ play is sedentary A study looking a three-, four- and five-year-olds enrolled in community-based preschool programs found that 89 percent of the kids’ physical activity could be described as sedentary activity, while 56 percent of activities were sedentary during outdoor playtim...

Workplace program gets people moving A program at Home Depot stores across the United States and Canada got workers moving, such that after 12 weeks 51 percent of workers met federal guidelines for physical activity, meaning they were getting moderate activity at least 30 minutes a day five days a w...

The eleventh-annual ranking of the fittest and fattest cities was recently released by Men’s Health magazine, and it may surprise you to learn that the Mecca for bikini-clad beauties, Miami, is actually the most unfit city in these United States. Why Miami made the cut The magazine came to this co...

Though we’re just a week into the new year, you might already be feeling your enthusiasm starting to lag when it comes to your health and fitness goals. Eating better and moving more aren’t yet habits for you, and you might find them boring or you’re not yet seeing any results. Dr. Lawrence J....