National Public Health Week starts Monday, April 6. Don’t miss these exciting events centered on this year’s theme: “Healthiest Nation 2030”. Live webcast – Raising the Grade Monday, April 6, 1 – 3 p.m. EDT Despite what you may read or hear, the U.S. is not the healthiest nation. We live shorter lives and suffer…
Petra Anderson, 47, does not use her company’s fitness center. She doesn’t exercise at home either. But almost every day at lunchtime, the import planner stands up from her desk and, with at least two co-workers, takes a brisk 20 to 40 minute walk outside the headquarters of Molex, Inc. in Lisle, Ill. The group,…
Feeling that midday slump? You may want to skip that third cup of joe and move your feet instead. Two new studies are highlighting the growing benefits of exercising on the job, whether it’s going for a brief stroll on your lunch break or getting your blood pumping right at your desk. Researchers at the…
Forget step counters. Seventy-year-old Barbara Norlin of Park Township needs an odometer to measure her exercise. The 2,014 miles she racked up in 2014 were completed on the bike paths around her Park Township home. The total distance is almost the same as that between Holland and California. Norlin walks the same 8-mile route through…
By now, many of us, beset by bad weather and declining motivation, are struggling to maintain our New Year’s exercise resolutions. But a timely new study offers encouragement, suggesting that by paying more attention to the experience of exercise itself, even the most reluctant of exercisers might begin to find pleasure in movement. Scientists, like…
So Juno just dumped a whole lot of snow on your sidewalks and streets. So much for training for that half marathon — or going much of anywhere, really. Even if you’re spared from this snowstorm, odds are you’ve been hit by another, or, maybe you just can’t seem to peel yourself away from your Netflix…
Intense, interval-style workouts — brief bouts of very hard exercise broken up by periods of recovery — have been shown to improve the health and fitness of people who exert themselves for only a few minutes a week. Such efficiency is alluring, and has helped this kind of conditioning attract widespread media attention in recent…
One day, when Marc Andreessen, the money man behind such tech giants as Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga, was out driving around his home in Palo Alto, California, he nearly hit a crazy old man crossing the street. Looking back at the fool he had nearly run over he noticed the trademark blue jeans and black…
Mental and physical exercise can keep the brain fit and help it recover capacities lost to disease and trauma Can the brain heal and preserve itself—or even improve its functioning—as we get older? For some time, many scientists have tended to think of our brains as machines, most commonly as computers, destined to break down…
The workout looks out of place: participants strap poles on their hands and glide around a gym mimicking the movements of cross-country skiing. The exercise — Nordic walking — is catching on in the area. Not to be confused with the generic term pole walking, Nordic walking is a specific technique that was developed as a summer training exercise…