Why Hard Physical Work Is Not the Same as Exercise for Brain Health
A sweeping new meta-analysis covering more than 4.2 million people has uncovered a striking paradox: while leisure-time physical activity reduces dementia risk by roughly 24%,...

Organized sports and physical activities aren’t enough to keep homeschoolers fit, research finds.

People who exercise on a regular basis are more likely to eat healthier, too.

There’s a hidden healing system within you, just waiting to be activated. Learn how to break the barrier and reclaim your well-being.

If an event is otherwise highly enjoyable, pausing to take photographs will detract from your enjoyment, research finds.

Bigger dogs, with larger brains, perform better than smaller pups on certain measures of intelligence, new research shows.

It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one — particularly for folks over 60.

Your trousers fit when you put them on in the morning. But come mid-afternoon, they’re uncomfortably tight – and you didn’t even overdo it at lunchtime. Sound familiar?

The figure of 78 cents to a man’s dollar is familiar to many of us. It’s how the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has quantified the gender gap among full-time workers

More climate-friendly diets are also healthier, according to a study examining the carbon footprint of what more than 16,000 Americans eat in a day.

You can take everyday foods and transform them into delicious superfoods at home in your kitchen with minimal effort and almost no money! Simply by fermenting foods, you significantly multiply their health-building properties. Everyday foods like yogurt and sauerkraut are just the beginning of what is possible.

When facing a stressful situation, thinking about your romantic partner may help keep your blood pressure under control just as effectively as actually having them in the room with you.

Every year Australia’s councils contest the academy awards of the water industry: the Best Tasting Tap Water in Australia. Entrants compete on clarity and colour as well as taste and odour.
Every unhappy family might be unhappy in its own way, but when they sit down together at the table, they’re alike according to one important measure: they eat better.

In his book, ‘Urban Farmer,’ Curtis Stone writes about how to build a successful farm on a quarter acre of land.

Most of us are intimately familiar with anxiety. We experience it as we walk towards the room to where our job interview is held, when we stand up to give a speech at our best friend’s wedding, or when we find ourselves in conversation with someone we want to impress.

Many of us have started the year determined to be more organised: no more drawers full of plastic containers with missing lids, or lone socks.

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
Four characteristics may offer a way to predict if a woman will experience postpartum depression—and if her symptoms will worsen over the first year after giving birth.

Studies examining pain are hard to judge, since they’re based on participants’ self-reported pain levels.
What are the most addictive drugs? This question seems simple, but the answer depends on whom you ask.
Older people who spend less time in slow-wave sleep—the deep sleep you need to consolidate memories and wake up feeling refreshed—have higher levels of the brain protein tau, a new study shows.