By Ross Pomeroy April 12, 2018 Nearly twenty years ago, researchers began noticing a curious paradox in health-focused studies: despite common wisdom that being overweight or obese is unhealthy, a significant number of analyses showed that in a variety of circumstancesadditional weight is actually associated with a lower risk of Read more…
How Strength Training Changes Your Body For Good Mandy Oaklander The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Exercise, which is available at Amazon. Dr. Dena Oaklander, a psychiatry resident—who also happens to be my sister—is the last person you’d ever expect to become a bodybuilder. Read more…
2 forms of exercise are the best way to stave off the effects of aging — here’s how to incorporate them into your life If you’re searching for an all-natural way to lift your mood, preserve muscle tone, and protect your brain against the decline that comes with aging, look Read more…
One little understood paradox in the study of obesity is that overweight people who break down fat at a high rate are less healthy than peers who store their fat more effectively. That’s because when fat breaks down, many of the fatty acids released from the adipose tissue (body fat) Read more…
Even short bursts of exercise throughout the day could work to reduce our risk of disease and death, new research shows. For decades, Americans have heard confusing barrage of messages about how best to counteract the health risks of sedentary lifestyles: walk 10,000 steps a day; do a seven-minute workout Read more…
Most people enter into the fitness world or start a new training program wanting to simply build a better body. They want a more aesthetic physique, but a better body to most people does not mean that they want to build a massively muscular physique of a typical bodybuilder. However, Read more…
The year 2000 marked the first time in history that there were more people on Earth over the age of 60 than under the age of 5, according to a United Nations report. 10,000 people a day are retiring, according to multiple sources. That’s about 4 million a year. The Read more…
For the last time, forget juice cleanses and detox diets. They’re fluffy nonsense words. While there’s probably nothing wrong with drinking your weight in liquid kale, it won’t flush out toxins any faster than if you were eating, you know, actual food. The good news: There’s a little-known way your Read more…
The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right Mark Bittman and doctor David L. Katz patiently answer pretty much every question we could think of about healthy food. It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on Read more…