One hundred scientists and physicians have written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking for more regulation of increasingly popular energy drinks because their high caffeine content puts... View More

A $50,000 scholarship endowment for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Research and Education Foundation has been established in the name of John A. Mayes M.S., ATC, LAT. Through... View More

Nearly one in four recently approved products in a relatively new class of medicines needed some type of regulatory action because of safety issues that arose after they came on the market, researchers... View More

Selling Personal Training is a well-rounded primer on how to generate a clientele from the ground up. Written by industry veteran Casey Conrad, this book serves as both a jump-start for new trainers and... View More

The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) expressed today its ardent support of John McCain and Barack Obama’s comments made during the third and final presidential debate... View More

The popular strength training resource Optimal Muscle Training (Human Kinetics, 2009) will now be available in paperback. In the book and DVD package, strength and conditioning expert Dr. Ken Kinakin explains... View More

The World Natural Sports Organization (WNSO) has endorsed the National Federation of Professional Trainers (NFPT) as their athletes’ official training and certification organization. WNSO... View More

It’s a booming company in a down economy and a record number of people want to be part of it. So Colorado-based Fitness Together has released a free report entitled “The Insider’s... View More

In an effort to help harried Americans fit exercise into their hectic lives, new government guidelines released this week recommend slightly more than two hours of physical activity a week to stay fit.... View More

Score another home run for the 2007 World Series Champions. David Page, Boston Red Sox strength and conditioning coach, received the Life Fitness Nolan Ryan Award, named after the Hall of Fame pitcher,... View More

Researchers have uncovered a genetic link between obesity and the risk for colon cancer. The discovery could lead to greater accuracy in predicting who is at risk for the disease, experts say. Research... View More

New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that pregnant women should think twice about high-fat foods. In a study from the University of Cincinnati and the Medical... View More

With childhood obesity expanding to epidemic proportions in the United States, educators, researchers and health practitioners are actively seeking to identify effective means of addressing this public-health... View More

In a move certain to rock the restaurant industry, Yum Brands, parent company to Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, on Wednesday will announce plans to begin posting product calorie information on the indoor... View More

The recent news that a common knee surgery does nothing for osteoarthritis of the knee might have sounded like bad news to some patients: one less chance at relief from pain and stiffness. But experts... View More

In people with type 2 diabetes, regular aerobic exercise and weightlifting may reduce levels of fat in the liver by as much as 40 percent, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. High liver fat... View More

The more overweight children and teens are, the more numerous and severe their headaches, according to a U.S. study. But losing weight eases the frequency and severity of the headaches, the researchers... View More

Obese school-age kids and teens can lose weight or prevent further weight gain if they participate in medium- to high-intensity behavioral management programs, according to a new report released today... View More

Kids' programming has become an important tool in the fight against childhood obesity by encouraging kids to get involved in physical activity. But according to Sandy Coffman, author of Successful Programs... View More

Former Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday during the "State of Our Health" conference in Columbia, SC, said that the US must seek to decrease rates of obesity... View More