America has an obesity problem. The National Institutes of Health estimates that two in five adults are overweight and one out of every three adults are obese. Though a healthy diet has the biggest ...

Getting more vigorous exercise daily may be key to increased longevity. Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images Research shows that regular exercise results in a lower risk of developing several ...

New research shows adding a few minutes of vigorous “everyday” physical activity to your daily exercise routine could help control blood pressure. Heart-pumping activities like cycling, running, and ...

NEW ORLEANS — When I was previously asked, what’s the difference between moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) and vigorous physical activity, my simple answer was mild to moderate exercise is not breaking a ...

A doctor named Karl Zarse shared the good news about what type of exercises people who aren't a fan of going to the gym for hours at a time can do for just a few minutes a few days per week. Zarse ...

A new review found that light to moderate intensity exercise may be better in tackling depression than vigorous exercise ...

Those who exercise on the weekend can get the same health benefits as those who do it regularly if they put in the right amount of time, new research suggests Time required: 75 minutes of vigorous ...

For those who don’t like going to the gym — or don’t have room in their schedule — new study findings offer good news. Even minute-long bursts of vigorous exercise during daily tasks may be enough to ...

A new study from Dartmouth College sheds light on how easy to moderate aerobic exercise affects the human mind differently than high-intensity workouts over a full calendar year. This ...

People with the inherited heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who exercised vigorously did not have an increased incidence of serious cardiac events during three years of follow-up ...

People with the inherited heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who exercised vigorously did not have an increased incidence of serious cardiac events during three years of follow-up ...