Good nutrition is about more than maintaining a healthy weight; it promotes healthy aging and helps combat diseases such...

This year’s flu season was the worst in more than 25 years and it may continue to circulate well into May, the NYS Health...

Spring is coming and so is the sun. Or more precisely, a Daylight Savings Time extra hour of sunlight each day. To mark the...

The benefits of running are obvious. No special equipment needed. An exercise that works anywhere at any convenient time....

Consuming protein foods or drinks at some point following a strenuous workout is a good idea, experts say, but a popular...

While there is little doubt when we hit our peak age in terms of physical strength and agility, a new groundbreaking study...

Procedures that hospitals undertake on women are reimbursed at a lower rate than similar procedures involving men, a new...

Your morning coffee isn’t just an upper. Recent research says it helps protect your heart from cardiovascular disease, decreases...

From time to time, everyone needs a friend. When you are trying to lose weight, the friend you need is one who can help you...

Modern science says that peppering your speech with salty words is good for your body as well as your brain.

For starters,...

The New York Road Runners Club has just waded through 200,000 applicants to choose the lucky tens of thousands of entrants...

Much attention has been focused on the growing problem of being overweight in the US, but at the opposite end of the scale,...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that healthy adults should spend at least 20 minutes a day on moderate...

If you live on the UWS, whether you run the NYC Marathon or not, you are likely aware of the physical toll the race takes...

Three centuries ago, the British poet William Congreve wrote that, “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.“

Or, as...