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A brain-imaging study finds that one workout boosts positive mood and may strengthen amygdala–precuneus communication, a ...

Brain recordings taken of the participants showed that exercise and napping helped in different ways, researchers said.

Biotech company Enveda announced this week that its experimental drug, designed to curb appetite and mimic some of the body’s ...

Can 75 minutes of walking once a week help improve fitness and heart health? Learn how interval walking one day a week ...

A few minutes of sprinting may reshape the bloodstream far more dramatically than a much longer moderate workout. Six 30-second sprints altered nearly a quarter of the blood proteins measured and more ...

Sitting all day and squeezing in one workout may not be enough. New research is pointing to a simpler fix. Short bursts of ...

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Exercise can provide significant physical and mental benefits for people with obesity, regardless of whether they are doing so to lose weight. There is no one best exercise for obesity. The most ...