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Exercise Helps Your Brain as Much as Your Body
Instead of just asking questions about how exercise helps our bodies, let’s also consider how it helps our brains
Exercise Helps Your Brain as Much as Your Body
Instead of just asking questions about how exercise helps our bodies, let’s also consider how it helps our brains
Walking Backward Helps You Move Ahead with Joint Health
Experts explain how moving in reverse can take pressure off your knees and improve flexibility
Simple Resistance Exercises Improve Overall Health and Reduce Death Risks
Weight training turns out to be as important as aerobic activity for warding off disease
Why You Don’t Just Lose Fat When You’re on a Diet
Here’s why your body sheds fat and muscle when you diet
How to Keep Muscles Strong as You Age
Here’s why older adults naturally lose muscle mass over time and how regular physical activity and resistance training can help
Kids Need More Places to Play, Not Fat Shaming
We should pay less attention to children’s weight and more to their overall health by encouraging outdoor play
You Don’t Really Need 10,000 Daily Steps to Stay Healthy
New research points to different step counts based on age and fitness level
We Can Make Football Safer
Through better equipment, improved knowledge of head injury and better medical care, we can mitigate the effects of concussion at all levels of football
The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science
For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health
Big Data, Questionable Benefits and My Girlfriend’s Magic Ring
Wearable devices that track our health may do more harm than good
Why Sports Concussions Are Worse For Women
As women’s soccer, rugby and other sports gain popularity, scientists are racing to understand how the female brain responds to head injury
How Paralympic Wheelchairs and Prostheses Are Optimized for Speed and Performance
The engineering and designs vary widely from sport to sport and athlete to athlete