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Sitting for long periods is associated with an increased risk of multiple diseases, including certain cancers, and a higher chance of death.

We developed a fitness app specifically for people in the African-American community to have all they need to achieve health and fitness.

A set of mouse studies shows that this dietary intervention could be groundbreaking for breast cancer research.

Interestingly, the drugs themselves, not just the act of curing the virus, were tied to a lower diabetes risk in a recent large study.

When individuals—especially women—combined short walking breaks with morning exercise, they reduced their blood pressure levels.

Maintaining a healthy weight could have prevented asthma in almost 1 million children, say new findings.

Being obese was linked to a fourfold increase in pancreatic cancer risk.

Smoking, physical inactivity and food insecurity are among eight county-level factors that account for income-related disparities.

Parental advisory: Remove devices with screens from adolescents’ bedrooms to improve the quantity and quality of their sleep.

For Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, snooze time has always been a required component of her training.

Findings that reveal five distinct forms of diabetes may one day change treatment for patients.

For many women, making even small lifestyle changes, can stave off death from heart disease.

Research presented at 2017 American College of Rheumatology / Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP) Annual Meeting.

Preventable cancer risks like obesity, alcohol consumption and sun exposure are still largely overlooked.

With the exception of colon cancer, most cancers associated with overweight or obesity rose over the past decade.

Women with large amounts of visceral and subcutaneous fat are at a significantly greater risk for specific types of breast cancer.