More time spent on activities such as lifting, pushing or pulling, bending, twisting, and crawling was linked to a higher ...

New research confirms that regular physical activity doesn’t just strengthen your body — it significantly boosts brain power, ...

Exercise has been shown to boost cognition immediately and over the long-term, as well as helping to prevent a number of medical and mental health disorders.

Lifting, bending, and squatting are linked to an increased risk for low back pain flares, but none of the activities are ...

We’ve stepped into a new year, which for many people means new resolutions. And this story was supposed to tackle a big one: the best exercise people can do to be healthy. There’s just one small ...

Higher levels of leisure-time physical activity are linked to a lower likelihood of sleep issues, highlighting the potential ...

A new Finnish study shows that adults who remain physically active throughout adulthood have a markedly lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome at the age of 61 than those whose leisure-time physical ...

Objective To estimate the dose–response associations between non-occupational physical activity and several chronic disease and mortality outcomes in the general adult population. Design Systematic ...

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in ...

A new study finds that young adults squeezed by rent and cramped space reported higher activity levels, but also ...