Being Unfit May Be Almost as Bad for You as Smoking
Being out of shape could be more harmful to health and longevity than most people expect, according to a new, long-term study of middle-aged men. The study finds that poor [...]
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Pumping Iron: Lighter Weights Just as Effective as Heavier Weights
New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights [...]
Can Running Make You Smarter?
To strengthen your mind, you may first want to exert your leg muscles, according to a sophisticated new experiment involving people, mice and monkeys. The study’s results [...]
Closest Thing to a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise
After I wrote last year that diet, not exercise, was the key to weight loss, I was troubled by how some readers took this to mean that exercise therefore had no value. [...]
Diet vs. Exercise: What’s More Important?
“If everyone was a healthy weight we could close half the hospitals and get rid of half the doctors,” according to Philip Caravella, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. The family physician [...]
The Best Inner-Thigh Exercises of All Time
Cossack Squat This exercise provides a unique training stimulus for the lower body that will shape your glutes and thighs from every angle, says Jon-Erik Kawamoto, strength [...]
Exercise Lowers Risk for These 13 Cancer Types
A large new study confirms that exercise lowers the risk of many different types of cancer, and it goes a step further: It shows just how much the reduction in risk is. [...]
Why Your Job Affects How Much You Exercise
When it comes to exercise, for most people the question isn’t whether you should do it, but how much activity you need to improve your health. In the latest study published [...]
7 Ways to Increase Your Metabolism
“No matter what I do, I can’t seem to lose weight,” writes this week’s house call, who is also an Eat Fat, Get Thin challenge participant. “I think I’m cursed [...]
Can Exercise Cure Depression and Anxiety?
At the age of 16, Heather Troupe received a diagnosis of chronic severe depression and a prescription for an antidepressant. Eight years and 20 pounds later, she was sleeping [...]
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