exercise

Too Much Exercise

I’m not going to give you permission in this piece to live a sedentary life, sitting at a desk at work all day and then on the couch watching television each evening. But medical science increasingly has some evidence of a general principal your mother warned you about: there is such a thing as too […]

Exercise Helpful in Retirement

I don’t know about you, but I find it all too easy to sometimes come up with a reason I just can’t exercise on a given day. I tell myself that my life is too crowded with work and meetings, or that I’m too tired from sleeping poorly the night before. Mind you, if I […]

Hitting Below the Belt

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to eat right and trim down, be forewarned that medical science shows your brain has it in for you and will actively promote your failure on two different fronts. That’s not good news, of course, but you should know about it so you can strengthen your resolve as […]

Taking Aim at Better Health

There’s next to nothing special about the Earth’s orbit around the sun right now. January, in that sense, is just another month in the natural world. But because we think of this time as the start of the next page on our calendars, January can be a great time to start fresh with some new […]