In 2012, no state’s adult obesity rate was at or above the 35% benchmark. By 2019, a dozen states had rates that high — and the number continued to climb. Read More.
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Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it. Read More.
While fitness fads are often prevalent on social media, experts have issued a warning over the one TikTok trend that may be causing more harm than good. Read More.
Strength training for seniors should emphasize posterior muscles like the glutes and upper back rather than mirror muscles to prevent pain and maintain independence. Read More.
If you’re a woman under 65, science just gave you a new reason to pay attention to ambiguous symptoms — even if you don’t have traditional risk factors for a heart attack. Read More.
For every fitness influencer that's out there yelling into a camera about discipline and touting the next new trend to boost your training progress, there's another decrying them as pseudoscientific heretics. Sifting through the chaff to find the wheat is an unenviable task that the average netizen simply doesn't have the bandwidth for.
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