A child’s height reflects more than genes, hormones, nutrition, and physical activity all play key roles. Supporting these factors helps optimize growth, bone health, and overall strength for a ...

By eating into playtime, schools are shaping a generation of sedentary children, more prone to obesity, insulin resistance, and attention disorders than ever before.

Staying active is one of the most effective ways to stay independent and feel good as the years pass. The right combination of movement, rest and nutrition can help you stay strong, flexible and ready ...

With the potential return of the Presidential Fitness Test, here’s how one writer is helping her son have a better ...

Running until  November 30, this city-wide active lifestyle initiative promises a calendar of free fitness experiences for ...

Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel’s statewide fitness challenge is expanding to include third graders after more than 180,000 Ohio ...

Hear from one student about how physical activity in every classroom can help improve academic performance and mental health ...

On July 31, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back to schools in the ...

South Range Elementary celebrated their spirit week by promoting healthy habits, with activities such as a group exercise and ...

Physical fitness, physical activity and screen time are associated with brain mechanisms underlying mental health and ...

Dr. Peter Attia has declared war on what he calls the marginal decade, the final years of life that are often plagued by ...

A study from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom found that one's ability to cope with pain plays a big role ...