In primary schools, the most popular school-based physical activity intervention is The Daily Mile, which involves 15 minutes ...

A study shows that, in the most sedentary people, small amounts of activity are linked to significant health benefits ...

Engaging in everyday physical activity has immediate benefits for brain health. Middle-aged people who participated in everyday movement showed improvement in cognitive processing speed equivalent to ...

Regular exercise is one of the most effective ways to lengthen your life. Research consistently shows that physical activity ...

We’ve stepped into a new year, which for many people means new resolutions. And this story was supposed to tackle a big one: the best exercise people can do to be healthy. There’s just one small ...

Below, please find two summaries related to studies publishing in The Lancet and eClinicalMedicine (part of The Lancet Discovery Science suite of journals) sharing new research on how small increases ...

Physical activity reduces chronic disease risks, improves function, and extends lifespan, thus supporting clinicians’ use of exercise prescriptions as a health intervention, new research suggests. A ...

Physical activity is known to be good for one’s health.1 2 On the other hand, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour are known to be harmful to health.2 3 Agreement exists about these general ...