A decades-long Swedish study finds that physical decline starts around age 35, but exercise at any age still meaningfully preserves fitness. A Swedish research project spanning 47 years from ...

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For decades, people have guessed at the age when the body truly starts to slow down. Now a rare 50‑year fitness project, ...

To understand opportunities for childhood physical activity, the research team collected data in neighborhood parks across New York City, including "anchor parks" slated for enhancement in the coming ...

While reading, writing and math skills among school-age children are closely monitored, students’ access to health-promoting physical activity and physical education is less documented, resulting in a ...

Parents in Denver jump on the "bike bus" bandwagon, organizing group rides to a local elementary school as a safe, healthy and low carbon means of delivering kids to classrooms. Decades ago, it was ...

The benefits of low-intensity physical activity, such as standing, walking or doing household chores, can be more health beneficial than once thought. Replacing half an hour’s sedentariness a day with ...

'Project Play 60', the Green Bay Packers' event focused on getting kids out of the house to enjoy non-strenuous physical activity, is set for Saturday, Feb. 14. The free community event is open from 9 ...

Childhood obesity has been becoming a worldwide public health problem. We conducted a community-based physical activity (PA) intervention program aiming at childhood obesity prevention in general ...

Parkinson’s UK is offering its popular Physical Activity Grants programme to help more people living with Parkinson’s get active in 2024. Now into its fourth year, the charity’s Physical Activity ...

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in ...