Ozempic and Other Weight-Loss Drugs Bear Heavy Costs and Questions for Seniors
Limited data on adults age 60 and older raise questions on whether high-priced weight-loss drugs will really help with lowering rates of chronic illness and disability
Some Excess Weight Is Healthy for Older Adults
Experts are more concerned about a lack of activity in older adults who are somewhat overweight than about weight loss
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Why You Don’t Just Lose Fat When You’re on a Diet
Here’s why your body sheds fat and muscle when you diet
How to Keep Muscles Strong as You Age
Here’s why older adults naturally lose muscle mass over time and how regular physical activity and resistance training can help
Can You Change Your Metabolism?
Though you might not be able to significantly rev up your metabolism, there are ways to boost the energy your body burns while doing nothing
The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias
Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient’s story
Texting Thumb, Trigger Finger, Gamer’s Thumb and Other Smartphone Injuries
What causes them and how to protect yourself
The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science
For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health
This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You’re Doing Absolutely Nothing
When it comes to dieting, here’s how to tally the so-called basal metabolic rate
The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Touch [Sponsored]
Ardem Patapoutian shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2020 for answering a basic question: How does touch actually work?
Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly
Heat waves kill more people than any other type of severe weather in the U.S. And climate change is making them more frequent and unpredictable
Weed Shouldn’t Be Banned for Elite Athletes, Some Experts Say
The disqualification of a leading U.S. Olympics candidate has brought the World Anti-Doping Agency’s marijuana prohibition under fire