Nearly 80 percent of American adults are not meeting the U.S. government’s physical activity guidelines, according to a November 2018 update from the Health and...
Cardiorespiratory exercise — walking briskly, running, biking and just about any other exercise that gets your heart pumping — is good for your body, but can...
As a society, we aren’t getting as much exercise as we should. In fact, current activity guidelines state that adults should get at least 150 minutes of...
Decades of innovations from the study of outer space have come down to Earth, into store aisles, smartphones and American households. On July 20, 1969, astronaut...
NASA monitors its astronauts in orbit 24/7, aiming both to learn new information about how human bodies adapt to microgravity as well as to keep...
Reminiscent of a scene from "The Social Network," the whiteboard in researcher and professor Morgan Levine's Yale Medical School office is covered in a series...
Unlike heart rate which measures the number of time the heart beats per second, HRV is the measure of the variation in time between each...
Here's how to pick the right one for you—and how to get the most out of it. Drop by just about any gym in America, and...
Medical Xpress A paper published recently in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Cardiology shows that regular physical exercise and, specifically, that which is undertaken to increase muscle strength,...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Personal Health Investment Today (PHIT) Act, which would allow the use of pre-tax savings accounts for physical activity-related expenses. PHIT...