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How to stay healthy in the season of sweets

With temptations at every turn, how can you steel your resolve to stay healthy until the new year

Vegan diet rich in legumes may help you lose weight

In a study from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, scientists found a vegan diet improves diet quality, leading to decreased weight and improved...

Even moderate exercise could help reduce death risk after breast cancer

Scientists found that even moderate physical activity may help reduce the death risk for breast cancer survivors.

Sleep problems increase risk for inflammatory bowel disease

Scientists found short sleep duration and daytime napping appear to increase the risk for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

If weight loss is your only goal for exercise, it’s time to rethink your...

Here are just five ways exercise improves our health, no matter how much we weigh.

As hearts race over the World Cup, playing soccer has its benefits from head...

Soccer is filled with cardiovascular activities that can benefit the brain as well as the heart.

Here’s how the body reacts to one-off overeating

Whether it’s a summer barbecue with friends, your favourite fast food takeaway, or Christmas dinner, we can probably all recall times when we’ve eaten...

Drug for dementia can improve heart health, reduce obesity, fatty liver

In a recent study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, scientists found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease...

People with type 2 diabetes respond differently to exercise

Regular exercise helps prevent and delay the development of type 2 diabetes and its complications. In a study from Karolinska Institutet and elsewhere, scientists found...

How exercise keeps your brain healthy and protects it against depression and anxiety

We know how exercise improves cardiovascular, metabolic and related health. What we may not know is how this happens within the brain.