Whether you’ve overindulged this festive season or taken it easy, many of us see 1 January as the starting gun for a new exercise regime. Physical activity has countless health benefits, from helping ...

Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always been active, playing sports and riding her bike to school every day. Then, in the late-1990s, while working as a staff scientist at the ...

This trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available. This study is looking at whether diet and exercise can improve the health of people with chronic ...

In our recent review,1 we applied an evolutionary perspective to explore why exercise may never be effective medicine in practice, and we appreciate the questions raised by Zagury and Braga in support ...

A hormone that is released during exercise may improve brain health and lessen the damage and memory loss that occur during dementia, a new study finds. The study, published this month in Nature ...

A scientist who studies whether restricting calories in a safe way could help us live longer shared how he eats, exercises, and de-stresses for longevity. Restricting the number of calories we eat ...