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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
A new study has been found that television viewing increases your risk of dying from an inflammatory-related condition like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. But it’s more complicated than that.
Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.