Yes. It sounds a bit harsh, but it's also a bit true. ScienceDaily reports on research conducted at Cambridge University showing that just nine days of a high-fat diet reduced the distance that rats could run to half of the...

Pull-ups do not get easier with age. Neither, Geezer should mention, does spelling the word pull-up. Geezer could swear that back in the Kennedy years the noun required two words...

Helpful organizations and government agencies have been trying to tell us what, exactly, is in our food since 1938, when the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act required that every processed, packaged food feature the name of the food, its net weight, and the...

So far, the evidence suggests only that some skin moisturizers may promote the spread of skin cancer and the growth of tumors in mice exposed to UV radiation. Humans may be spared. Or not. HealthNews reports that researchers at Rutgers...

Geezer, whose swimming speed has regressed over the years from fast to slow to barely moving, is still hopeful that things can improve. And if anyone can help him, he figures, it is Michel Phelps, who...

Gina Kolata, perhaps the best informed (meaning best reporter) health and fitness writer going, seeks an answer to the oft-asked question: Is it better to exercise in the morning or in the evening? And the answer is....it depends on who...

For fortunate readers who live in parts of the country where there is no opportunity to shovel snow, L. A. Times fitness guru Karen Voight offers this alternative exercise for strengthening the upper back. 1. Place the center of a...

A new study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School suggests that drinking coffee may reduce the risk of advanced prostate cancer. The BBC reports that when researchers looked at the coffee intake of nearly 50,000 men every four years...

By May 1 of 2010, U.S. News & World Report tells us, the FDA will make a decision on the approval of Provenge, which has been shown to increase the survival of men with advanced prostate cancer, for use as...

The most intriguing gift in this year's Washington Post fitness gift guide has got to be Vibram Five Fingers running shoes, which look more like gloves for your feet than shoes. Vibram claims the shoes allow one to "experience the...