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Fitness

Woman in a gym on an exercise machine

What’s the point of exercise?

Health

The science behind why you’re sweating away on a stationary bike.

Taking the stairs

It’s OK if you only hit 8,500 steps today — and sit while you work. Fitness myths, debunked.

Health
Lacing up for a jog.

How games are changing the way we stay fit

Health
Stephanie Drazic is SmugMug's office manager.

Watch office workers become athletic gods

Arts
BollyX Fitness class in Cambridge, MA.

BollyX combines Bollywood dance moves with aerobics to make you more fit

Culture

November Project’s Growing Fitness ‘Tribe’

Health & Medicine

A grassroots fitness movement called the November Project is drawing big crowds for early morning workouts around Boston. Now this free exercise ‘tribe’ is expanding. The World’s Andrea Crossan decided to take the challenge to join a November Project.

Controversy swirls over British plan to fitness test police officers

Health & Medicine

A survey in the United Kingdom recently found that a majority of the nation’s police officers are overweight. In response, a proposal has been floated to require fitness testing of all officers. But some police say this is unnecessarily broad.

Amaranth seedlings being grown in southern Mexico’s Tehuacan valley. The plant's seeds are high in protein and its leaves are high in iron, vitamin C and calcium.

Alt staple lunch: Mexicans push return of an ancient grain

Environment

400 years after the Spanish banned it, amaranth is making a comeback in Mexico as a high-nutrition staple that’s also resistant to climate change.

Medici Children Suffered from Malnutrition During Italian Renaissance

Arts, Culture & Media

Italian paleopathologist Valentina Giuffra has been studying the skeletons of nine children born to the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance. She tells anchor Marco Werman that their bones showed signs of rickets.

Study Points to 10 Key Nutrition Interventions that Could Save the Lives of Children

Environment

A new study outlines 10 key nutrition interventions that could save almost a million children a year. Host Marco Werman speaks with lead author Zulfiqar Bhutta of Pakistan’s Aga Khan University.