Child-care centers might not be providing kids enough opportunities to be physically active, finds a study that explored some of the obstacles.
The study, released this week in the journal Pediatrics, reports that about three-fourths of children in the U.S. age 3 to 5 are in child care, and 56 percent of them are in centers: nursery...
Weight-loss programs offering support via telephone and the Web work about as well as in-person counseling to help obese people lose weight, a study has found.
Two intervention programs were compared with a control group in the two-year study released last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which 415 obese men and women...
Making the transition from adolescence into young adulthood can be challenging, and it could also come with some health risks. A study finds that regular exercise may take a steep drop after high school, especially for young men.
Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Toronto, both in Canada, followed 640 Canadian...
If the thought of a health-related gift inspires the same feeling of dreariness as receiving a mail-order fruitcake or a six-pack of tube socks, it’s time to broaden your horizons. Health doesn’t have to be ho-hum: Think items to help you stay in shape, accessories inspired by biology, stories about the frontiers of medicine and much more. Read...
If you’re looking for a healthy Christmas gift or a way to change your exercise routine, you could consider a shake weight — if you don’t have unreasonable expectations about what it will do for you.
The shake weight looks a lot like a dumbbell but has springs at either end, so you shake it instead of lifting and lowering it. The...
