As New Year's resolutions roll around again, the vow to lead a more active lifestyle often tops the list—but it doesn't have ...

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We’ve stepped into a new year, which for many people means new resolutions. And this story was supposed to tackle a big one: the best exercise people can do to be healthy. There’s just one small ...

Although the ancient Greeks recognized the clear connection between the mind and the body, it’s taken a long time for Western medicine to adopt this notion. But science continues to show over and over ...

A decades-long Swedish study finds that physical decline starts around age 35, but exercise at any age still meaningfully preserves fitness. A Swedish research project spanning 47 years from ...

Higher levels of leisure-time physical activity are linked to a lower likelihood of sleep issues, highlighting the potential ...

1 Hunter New England Population Health, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 3 Hunter Medical Research ...

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in ...