It sounds like something a quack would support, but it’s true. There’s growing evidence that lifestyle changes such as eating a healthier diet and exercising more may be enough to prevent and even treat conditions ranging from …
Exercise
Finding Your Fitness Limit
When it comes to fitness, you can’t always get what you want
Weight Loss Apps: Don’t Waste Your Money
They’re the latest in high-tech weight loss, but all that technology isn’t translating into slimmer users, according to the latest study.
Exercise As Effective As Drugs For Treating Heart Disease, Diabetes
Forget the pills — there’s new evidence that exercise may be as effective as medications in treating heart disease and diabetes.
One Toke, Many Hits: Exercise Could Trigger Additional High for Marijuana Users
Working out could give pot users an extra high — but that may not be as much a boon as users might think.
How Cutting Physical Education in Schools Could Hurt Grades
While gym class may seem like an extraneous part of an academic program, getting aerobic exercise can help students to learn and remember more.
Tennis’ Plan To Draw Kids to the Court: It’s Working
200,000 Lives Could Be Saved from Heart Disease Each Year
Now there’s a number for how effective lifestyle changes can be in protecting the heart and preventing deaths from heart attack and stroke.
Five Things You’re Getting Wrong About Weight and Weight Loss
If I’m thin then I’m healthy, right? Wrong. There are several misconceptions people have about weight, losing it and what’s healthy. Here’s the low-down on some myths we’re better off busting.
From World of Warcraft to Weight Loss: How Virtual Reality Can Change Behavior
Most studies involving video games and avatars have been connected with weight gain, but seeing our virtual selves could also melt pounds away — if the avatar adopts the right healthy habits.
Exercise Alone Can Melt Away Dangerous Belly Fat in Diabetics
Just by increasing their physical activity, people with type 2 diabetes can lose fat that accumulates in the liver and abdomen and lower their risk of heart problems.
Stress Can Boost Good Habits Too
(UPDATED) Under stress, we all tend to seek comfort — sometimes in not-so-healthy ways — but a new study suggests that challenging experiences are as likely to promote good habits as they are to support bad ones.
Not Overweight? You’re Not Welcome at this Gym
If you live in Chicago or Dallas and have a few pounds to lose, you might spot Downsize Fitness and think you’ll give this new gym a try. Forget it. This is a club that won’t take you as a member—unless you have at least …