Fitness Studies

A new Lancet study attributes approximately 3 million global deaths per year to excessive sodium intake, while another 3 million are attributed to the inadequate consumption of whole grains. Another estimated 2 million deaths are connected to lack...

For 10 days, researchers evaluated a group of 10 regularly active students who were asked to become temporarily sedentary. The results indicated that physical inactivity can make people resistant to the benefits they would typically receive from...

When asked, 62 percent of survey participants said they have attempted to get into shape before joining a club, and another 45 percent said judgment-related fears have kept them away from fitness facilities entirely.

Six cancers tied to obesity—colorectal, endometrial, gallbladder, kidney, multiple myeloma and pancreas—are on the rise in young adults, according to new data published in The Lancet Public Health journal.

People with a propensity to physical activity showed genetic markers that corresponded with a reduced risk of depression, according to the JAMA Psychiatry study. However, the researchers also found that that those with genetic markers related to...

After six weeks of monitoring, the study subjects who regularly ascended stairs showed substantial increases in VO2 max and peak power output, as compared to the subjects who were sedentary.

Sedentary middle-aged Americans showed cognitive improvement after just six months of adopting routine aerobic exercise and a low-sodium, high-potassium diet.

Obesity has been linked to an increased risk of developing 13 types of cancer, according to data recently published in the latest issue of the American Cancer Society's journal. This risk tends to be greater in Westernized nations with sedentary...

The authors of a recent study concluded that heart disease-related illness and death was 50 percent lower for subjects who lifted weights, even those who lifted infrequently, versus those who never lifted. Subjects who lifted at least twice a week...