Ohio State University - A new study suggests that women with chronic issues with their body image are more likely to benefit from an exercise class where the instructor emphasizes the health benefits of the workout over the idea of improved body appearance, even if those women chose the class in hopes of improving their […]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Summer heat is up, and so is the risk of heat stroke and heat-related deaths among young football athletes.
Every year, Fred Mueller compiles a sports list, but unlike popular pre-season picks or a glamorous hot-recruit sheet, nobody envies him this task. Some years the list is longer […]

Columbus Children’s Hospital - Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries. During the 2005-06 season, high school football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally. A study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) at Columbus […]

British Journal of Sports Medicine - Intensive training given to young elite tennis players damages their lumber spines often and to a surprising degree, according to recent MRI research involving asymptomatic adolescent tennis players.
All the tennis players were aged between 16 and 23 and were attending a national tennis center. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans […]

Repeated sessions of exercise burn more fat than a single, long session.
The American Physiological Society - Taking a break in the middle of your workout may metabolize more fat than exercising without stopping, according to a recent study in Japan.  Researchers conducted the first known study to compare these two exercise methods - exercising continually […]

Insulin resistance in skeletal muscles - not belly fat - is the first step in developing metabolic syndrome, and it can be countered by exercise.
HHMI News - Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that […]