What’s the best way to burn the most calories? There’s a lot that goes into developing an exercise regimen — meeting your body’s needs, finding something [...]
At just 23 years old, Simone Pretscherer realized she was living like a recluse. She was turning down events with family and friends regularly — even casual, low-key walks [...]
Congratulations. If you are anything like the Americans in a study by a Cornell University professor, your weight will reach an annual low this week or the next. But don’t [...]
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recently went to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries into the mechanisms of autophagy. Also known as [...]
I remember the first time a doctor calculated my body mass index. I was 13 and up until that point had been one of the skinniest kids in my class. But then puberty struck, my [...]
More than just meat Proteins are known as the building blocks of life: In the body, they break down into amino acids that promote cell growth and repair. (They also take [...]
Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into [...]
Researchers are hard at work trying to uncover the biological secrets hidden in the microbiome, and for good reason: the trillions of bacteria that live in and on us play a [...]
It’s been a hotly debated topic for longer than some of us have been alive: is a cardio or strength-training workout better for weight loss? Let’s look at exactly [...]
More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. But most of those who are trying to lose weight are probably failing, given the bleak data on [...]