Why Is Physical Activity Important? Physical activity is an important component of a healthy lifestyle and can improve health outcomes across the lifespan. When we are healthy, we’re more capable of ...

Merriam-Webster defines physical fitness as “good health and strength achieved through exercise.” But what exactly does that mean? In the real world, the definition of being physically fit varies from ...

Eating a balanced diet can lower your cancer risk and improve your overall health. Replace refined grains, added sugars, and highly processed foods with whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits.

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 ...

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 ...

Exercise has been shown to boost cognition immediately and over the long-term, as well as helping to prevent a number of ...

A 47-year-long Swedish study at Karolinska Institutet reveals how fitness, strength, and muscle endurance change during ...

Lifelong physical activity can help our span of good health run almost the length of a lifetime. In this way, remaining active later in life promotes humans’ wherewithal to support the survival of ...

Lymphedema after head and neck cancer is considerably more common than previously assumed and can persist long after cancer ...

A pre-school diet and physical activity program does not improve children's calorie intake or overall physical activity ...