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Personal Technology to Influence Healthy Choices
Researchers met September 23 at the Obesity Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss programs that have been created by health experts to use new technology, such as cell...
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Exercise as Medicine
In a 2010 CNN interview, U.S. Air force retired Lt. Gen. Norman Seip said more than one in four U.S. military recruits were unfit to meet the physical requirements to join. He stated, “It’s not drug...
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Can it Be True? Georgia College Discontinues its Athletic Teams
Spelman College in Atlanta is a historically black college and university for women only. It has a long and rich history as an academically rigorous school. The late Coretta Scott King is counted among...
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Children Need at Least 7 minutes a Day of Vigorous Physical Activity
Children need a minimum of seven minutes a day of vigorous physical activity, demonstrates recently published findings by University of Alberta medical researchers and their colleagues across Canada....
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Exercise in a High-Tech World: How Much is Enough?
Sport, health and physical education, and exercise science professionals are commonly asked: “How much exercise training is enough? Are the benefits worth the cost and risks? Is life expectancy...
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10 Eating Tips for a Healthier College Football Bowl Season
Bowl season brings specific eating challenges for football fans. Tailgating is often centered on binge eating and drinking. Anxious and celebratory supporters often live for the moment and forget about...
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America — Land of the Free and Home of the Obese
Americans are inundated with information about how we have become a physically unfit nation. Even though our life expectancies have not fallen, we are having to spend more and more health care dollars...
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Recess as Important as Other 3 R’s for Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently weighed in on the heavily debated issue of recess in schools and determined that it is a crucial and necessary component of a child’s development. In...
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Testing Cardiovascular Fitness in Our Youth
Cardiovascular fitness is generally considered to be the most important component of health-related physical fitness. Other commonly used terms for cardiovascular fitness include cardiorespiratory...
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Qatar’s National Sport Day to Feature Weight Losing Competition
Qatar’s National Sport Day, due to take place later this month, will feature the launch of a new, countrywide weight losing competition designed to get the public fitter and healthier. Qatar’s National...
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Joe Weider Left a Legacy of Health and Fitness
Joe Weider was a pioneer in the business of bodybuilding. Weider developed a multi-million dollar fitness publishing empire, including such publications as Muscle and Fitness and Men’s Fitness. He was...
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A Simple Way to Fight Childhood Obesity
The most recent edition of the journal, Pediatrics, reported the results of an interesting study that sought to examine obesity in first grade children in a Philadelphia school. A total of 42 children,...
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Scale Back Alabama a Success Story at the Academy
The seventh annual Scale Back Alabama contest—a 10-week competition that encourages Alabama citizens to lose weight and improve their overall health—recently came to an end and participants and health...
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Does Higher-Intensity Exercise Produce More Results?
Over time, running may produce greater weight loss than walking, especially in men and overweight women, according to research published in the official journal of the American College of Sports...
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Celebrate ‘Exercise is Medicine’ Month
Exercise is Medicine Month began May 1! Observed in conjunction with National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, communities throughout the United States will hold activities that recognize that...
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Longer Gym Class Periods Reduce Childhood Obesity
More time in gym class actually does reduce the likelihood that young children will become obese, according to a new study published in the Journal of Health Economics. The findings are some of the...
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Turkey Needs to “Clean Their House” if Istanbul 2020 is to Win Bid, IAAF...
Turkey’s government needs to do more to demonstrate that it is dealing with its country’s doping problem if Istanbul’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is to be successful, International...
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The AMA Says Obesity is a Disease; Now We Need to Inform Them How to Best...
My first reaction to hearing that the American Medical Association (AMA) had voted to classify obesity as a disease last month was a positive one. That was until I heard the excited comments from those...
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Children in P.E. Three Times More Likely to Participate in Sports and Fitness
Do you want to overcome the inactivity pandemic and obesity crisis? New research by the Physical Activity Council of 40,000 Americans shows children who do not have physical education are more than...
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NIH Math Model Predicts Effects of Diet, Physical Activity on Childhood Weight
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created and confirmed the accuracy of a mathematical model that predicts how weight and body fat in children respond to adjustments in diet and...
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