When we fell unhappy with ourselves it is appealing to want to push the blame elsewhere. A large part of the reason diet programs are appealing is that if they do not work we can say it is someone elses fault.

Losing small amounts of weight can have significant impacts on your life: A new study shows that for each pound of body weight lost, there is a 4-pound reduction in knee joint stress among overweight and obese people with osteoarthritis of the knee. Researchers say the results indicate

I just posted how email spamming people with health tips can cause people to live healthier. Apparently the dairy industry wants you to have your spam with a tall glass of milk, but some people are not buying it: A health advocacy group filed suit Tuesday against the dairy industry,

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. At least it seams that way with a new weight loss study: Overweight people who are otherwise healthy may increase their risk of dying by intentionally losing weight, according to provocative new research. A study of 2,957 twins in Finland

To each their own, but I am not usually a fan of instant success type programs, because if you do not address the underlying fundamentals surgery might not be a long term solution. With that being said, more and more people are using surgery to lose weight. In the hospital trade,

CBC reports that email spamming people with health tips causes many to live more healthy. Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, can be healthy if it convinces you to change your couch potato ways and eat better, a Canadian researcher says. People who were e-mailed tips promoting healthy behaviour

So I played tennis with the roommate again yesterday. It worked out fairly well. Both of us played better than in the past. One thing that was a real ephiphany for me was using a different grip for a backhand. I never used to do that. Of course my ankle was super sore earlier today,

Some runners are known to get high. No, not from smoking drugs or doing anything illegal, but from running. For a long time, people have associated runner’s high with endorphans, but some are critical of that point of view: What’s wrong with the endorphin theory? “Everything,”

When you do not exercise often after you go back to it delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) may occur. If you exercise exceptionally hard you can get runners high, which combined with elevated endorphin levels means that you may not feel pain sharply while you are exercising. Delayed