We've all heard "sitting is the new smoking" but a massive new UK Biobank study, just published in PLOS Medicine, suggests the real story is more nuanced: it's not sitting itself that raises cancer risk, it's sitting uninterrupted for long... Continue Reading →
A pooled analysis of nine prospective studies involving more than 750,000 adults finds that recommended amounts of leisure-time physical activity were linked to a lower risk for seven cancers, with several cancer types having a 'dose/response' relationship. The study was... Continue Reading →
If getting to the gym seems like a struggle, a University of British Columbia researcher wants you to know this: the struggle is real, and it’s happening inside your brain. The brain is where Matthieu Boisgontier and his colleagues went... Continue Reading →