Morgan King is the Family & Consumer Sciences Agent for N.C. Cooperative Extension Center – New Hanover County Center, ...

When public money is spent, the people deserve to know the ins and outs. It’s encouraging to see Harrisburg lawmakers on this particular bandwagon. The state Senate Intergovernmental Operations ...

In summary, don’t believe these common myths about high blood pressure. Regular checks, smart food choices, exercise, stress ...

Unlike a warmup, which increases blood flow to working muscles, an activation routine is a specific set of exercises designed to wake up muscles youll need for a given activity, explains Chloe ...

Exercise can slow tumour growth in mice by shifting the body’s metabolism so that muscle cells, rather than cancer cells, take the glucose and grow. A similar process may occur in people. To examine ...

Two and a half hours of physical exercise per week may be essential for achieving any significant reduction in body weight, a ...

Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. By Gina Kolata The statistics are incontrovertible: ...

Compound movements are one of the most important things that individuals should include in their training regimen. While isolated exercises target a single muscle group, compound exercises target ...

Balance exercises can help older adults improve strength while preventing falls when walking. Learn how to boost your balance at home with these stretches.

Julia Ries Wexler is a writer focusing on all things health and wellness. She has over 10 years of experience in health journalism, and though she has written about pretty much every health topic ...

If you're over 50 and admittedly not exercising like you used to, doing things such as box jumps, single-leg bounds and depth jumps are probably not on your daily checklist. That's OK. For starters, ...

If you’re a runner, you may warm up with some dynamic hamstring stretches and reward your glutes and quads with a little foam rolling action when you’re done. But how often are you stretching your hip ...