If heart-pounding running or high-octane aerobics sessions just aren’t your thing, there are other ways you can lose body fat without cardio. But even though you [...]
Losing weight or maintaining a fitness level is never easy. During winters, when we tend to become less mobile, our metabolism rate drops and digestion slows down. All these [...]
A few years ago, I had a pain in my right thigh. I assumed I had pulled a muscle and soldiered on. Until, that is, it interfered with my playing the bass drum on my drum kit. [...]
When it comes to eating healthier and managing your weight, there appears to be an upside to sharing your goals with your partner and doing it together. Oscar and Lola are a [...]
When elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that enhances the connections between neurons to maintain healthy cognition, a UC San Francisco [...]
Numbers are easier. That may be why a person’s weight — and the desire of millions of people to lose weight — is the first topic under discussion when it [...]
Obesity in the United States is a problem. Over 40 percent of adult Americans are obese, according to Trust for America’s Health and “1 in 5 children and [...]
Feel a little wobbly sometimes? Sneaky, age-related balance changes start in midlife — earlier than medical experts used to think, recent research shows. [...]
Strength training or resistance training is important as we age to offset some of the natural processes of the body, such as the loss of muscle mass and bone mass. Strength [...]
Parents who drop their kids off with Grandma while they work the late shift know: old age comes with a hidden benefit for our species that is very much to our evolutionary [...]