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Heart Disease Prevention Quiz

Answer this one: Why is lack of regular exercise a major risk factor for heart disease?

Stress Quiz

Stress is a fact of life for most of us. Too much stress can have harmful effects on the body, mind, and emotions. Learn more about stress and its effects by taking this quiz.

Relieve Stress

Managing Stress with Exercise

Although there are several ways to manage runaway stress, very few are as enjoyable and effective as a regular exercise routine.

Using Yoga to Relieve Stress

Yoga is one of the few stress-relief tools that has a positive effect on all the body systems involved.

Manage Your Weight

Keep Moving to Manage Your Weight

You can lose weight by dieting, exercising, or a combination of both. Including exercise into your daily routine offers other benefits besides weight control.

Everyday Ways to Lose Weight

Moderately intense activities, such as walking briskly from your parked car to the mall entrance and taking your dog for a quick jog after dinner, won't help you train for a sport. But they can help you achieve and maintain a healthful weight and improve your overall fitness level.

Smart Fitness: Boost Your Calorie Burn

Certain forms of physical activity are better than others at burning calories while you're exercising.

Protect Your Heart, Improve Circulation

Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Heart

Physical inactivity is just as big a risk factor for heart disease as high blood pressure and smoking are. So, be the exception rather than the rule. Here are eight ways to exercise for a healthier heart.

Making Your Lifestyle Heart-Healthy

The millions of Americans diagnosed with heart and cardiovascular diseases can benefit from making healthy choices in their day-to-day lives.

Preserve Function, Ease Arthritis Pain

Managing Arthritis with Exercise

Exercise has important health benefits for everyone—regardless of age and physical condition. But for people with arthritis, working out regularly, and within their limits, is critical.

Arthritis and Exercise: Q and A

Doctors and physical therapists say people with arthritis can improve their health and fitness through exercise without damaging their joints.

Bone Up Against Osteoporosis

The Exercise and Osteoporosis Connection

To help prevent osteoporosis, you should make sure to include certain exercises in your regular workout routine.

Build Your Bones with Exercise

Like muscles, bones are living tissue, and exercise makes them stronger. In fact, studies have shown that exercise even may help generate new bone in older adults.

Arthritis and Exercise: Q and A

Doctors and physical therapists say people with arthritis can improve their health and fitness through exercise without damaging their joints.

Help Control Diabetes

Diabetes: Getting Started with Exercise

Simple and small movements can get you started exercising. You don’t need to join a gym to start moving. Make it easy on yourself and you will be able to make exercising a habit. Slow, gentle, and easy is the way to begin to make exercising part of your life.

Steps Women Can Take to Reduce Their Diabetes Risk

Type 2 diabetes can be especially deadly for women. What behaviors do women need to change? Basically, the big two: eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle.