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For good health and longevity, the right mindset – and less stress – may be more important than exercise.
Are your new diet, exercise, meditation and self-care resolutions for 2020 really a personal choice? Or are you a model western “biocitizen,” living a life of unfreedom?
Taking more exercise is a New Year’s resolution to stick to. Exercise reduces risks of depression, cancers, heart disease, stroke and sudden death.
Cold water drowning kills many people every year. But can it also provide curative benefits? We asked an expert.
Health care providers often recommend exercise to overweight people as a way to lose weight, but that often does not work. Injuries can occur, and frustration can mount. Can walking with them work?
As a result of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, individuals now have relatively less muscle mass and relatively more body fat.
Living near lots of fast-food outlets doesn’t automatically encourage weight gain in your neighbourhood, but coupled with a lack of exercise facilities, it just might.
One bout of exercise protects your heart immediately, and the effect lasts for several days.
Women shouldn’t be disheartened by the latest finding that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss in the first month or two. There are other reasons to persist.
They provide more than warmth.
Here are some of the more popular sports supplements on the market today, separated into categories based on how effective and safe research shows they are.
A new study has found bodyweight exercises you can do at home are just as good as a gym workout.
One in five children are now obese by the time they turn 11.
Dropping old, bad habits is hard, but starting new, good ones may not be so difficult. Or so a recent study suggests. Read how a simple sign at an airport made a difference.
Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
The more you exercise, the more your body adapts to it. Here’s how you can improve the gains from your training.
A new workplace wellness program leverages masculine interests and targets blue-collar men - with success.
Being vegan and an athlete can go hand-in-hand, but it does take careful planning.
Electronic devices are making us sedentary – it’s time for a fix.
Top contributors
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Cardiorespiratory Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Integrative Physiology, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Westminster
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of East London
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Associate Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, Swansea University
