As decades of research and public health messaging attest, the breathtaking lack of exercise we get as a society has become a matter of life and death. A lack of fitness currently lags behind only ...

Let’s start thinking differently about exercise. Here’s how we know. Animal exercise studies typically run rats for weeks on running wheels. The animals gleefully run every night, sprinting several ...

You’ve probably heard that “you can’t out-exercise a bad diet.” While this saying has some merit, you may wonder whether diet or exercise is more important for health goals like weight loss or ...

“This study demonstrates that a calorie-controlled Mediterranean diet plus exercise does not simply produce weight loss; it results in a redistribution of body composition from fat to muscle,” said Dr ...

We’ve all heard that exercise is good for us—how it strengthens our hearts and lungs, and helps us prevent diseases like diabetes. That’s why so many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions to move ...

High blood pressure induced by exercise may be an indicator of future heart problems. Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine found that high blood pressure resulting from moderate ...

As people get older, it’s common to see an increase in belly fat buildup along the waistline. This is usually because muscle mass decreases with age as fat increases. You can tone and strengthen your ...