Is skipping breakfast bad for weight loss?After all, we’ve been told for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.It’s supposed to stoke your metabolism so that you burn more calories throughout the day. Without it,...

he 5×5 Workout: What is it?The 5×5 workout is very simple: five sets of five reps for no more than a handful of compound movements, three times per week. Although there are numerous variations of the program, one of the most popular is Strong-lifts...

1. Foods You Don’t LikeIf your current diet involves regularly eating food that you don’t like, you’re probably not going to be following that diet for very long.If a particular food doesn’t taste good, there’s no rule that says you have to eat...

Of all the dumb fitness ideas out there, the dirty bulk is one of the dumbest.  That may seem like an extreme statement, but trust me on this one. After all, I used to guzzle weight gainers mixed with ice cream until I grew a FUPA and...

3 Essential Hamstring Stretches to Prevent InjuryThis is particularly true for sports and activities that involve the feet striking the ground when the leg is mostly straight and the body is decelerating or changing direction, like football, soccer,...

5 fun fitness ideas for mom and babyLosing baby weightIs there any family event quite as special as the arrival of a new baby? Whether your infant is the first, or the latest addition to your brood, this bundle of joy will have you smitten. But...

The next concrete vote on Trump isn't until November, but pollsters and election wonks are all analysing the data furiously to see if the Democrats will ride a wave back to congressional power, or whether Trump and the Republicans will in fact...

The wording of the famous Second Amendment to the US Constitution is this:"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed".My students and I saw...

Recent headlines touted a link between daily alcohol consumption and a nearly 20-percent decrease in mortality risk — but those findings may be clouding the true relationship between alcohol and good health.While a study of senior citizens did...

If you want to protect yourself from colds and flu, regular exercise may be the ultimate immunity-booster. Studies have shown that moderate aerobic exercise—around 30 to 45 minutes a day of activities like walking, biking or running—can...

How Does Playing Sports Affect Your HealthSports and other physical activities have innumerable physical health benefits, including improved cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, bone health, increased life expectancy, and coronary health. Sports...

The graph below shows global warming for a 30-year period centered on January 2018, using NASA 2003 to January 2018 LOTI anomalies from 1951-1980, adjusted by 0.59°C to cater for the rise from preindustrial to 1951-1980, and with a polynomial...

A new analysis by Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson and colleagues shows that the world can be powered by 100% clean, renewable energy, with today's technology.The analysis looks at different pathways, using different ways of...

1.  The Republicans have been accused of "turbo-charged" gerrymandering in order to hold on to their state and federal offices, and the two states which seem to critics to exemplify their approach are Pennsylvania and North  Carolina. ...

From the Washington Post's "Plumline" blog, some still optimistic points about the Democrats' chances in November:* DEMS POUR MONEY INTO STATE LEGISLATIVE RACES: The New York Times reports that a Dem-aligned group led by former attorney...

The Sunday Times runs a piece today about the frustration of hard-Brexit minded Tory MPs, and their desire for a "dream team" of Johnson, Gove and - of course - Rees-Mogg, to come in and run things.Remain minded Tories should probably consider...