It’s tough to muster up an excuse to not exercise when you have a partner already waiting for you at the gym. It’s even harder to peter out mid-session when your partner’s workout depends on your full participation, according to a study cited in a 2012 article published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Americans as a whole consume too much sugar, that much seems to be clear. But where is most of the sugar in our diets coming from?  Pinning the blame on liquid calories like soda and other sweetened beverages seems easy enough. Since the 1970s, the average percentage of daily calories that comes from sugary drinks [...]

For many grilling season started with the first springlike temperatures.  But barbecuers should remember to take precautions with raw meats, particularly chicken, to keep food-borne illness to a minimum.  Cases of illness caused by Campylobacter, bacteria commonly found in raw milk and poultry, grew 14 percent the past five years, a government study found. Though [...]

CHRISTOPHER BERGER, 42, an exercise physiologist and professor at the University of Indianapolis, has an uncommon view of airports and business travel.  Where some see frustration, anxiety and long lines, Dr. Berger sees opportunities to move and relieve stress. Where some see an interminable wait, he sees an invigorating walk.  “What I try to promote [...]

Drinking just one 12-ounce soda a day may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, a new study from Europe suggests.  In the study, people who drank a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened soda daily were 18 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes over a 16-year period compared with those who did not consume soda. And [...]

As soon as your body hits the bed, it’s like a gun firing at the starting line. Your thoughts take off like a pack of horses, each thought racing faster than the first.  Did I do everything on my list? Did I pay the cable bill? What’s the due date on that project, again?  It’s [...]

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High levels of cortisol — the so-called stress hormone — have been associated with cardiovascular disease in some studies, but not in others. This may be because measuring cortisol in blood or saliva at one point in time may pick up acute stress, but it fails to account for long-term stress. Now Dutch researchers have [...]