Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?

  A few years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Japan put rats through a series of swim tests with surprising results. They had one group of rodents paddle in a small pool for six hours, this long workout broken into two sessions of three hours each. A second group [...]

That Little Voice Inside Your Twinge

  Photographs by Sumner Dilworth for The New York Times; Photo Illustration by The New York Times     A COLLEAGUE of mine at The Times who is a triathlete had a question: Everyone tells you to listen to your body, but what are you supposed to listen to?   Turns out it’s not so [...]

Why not walk and lose some weight?

  A CABBIE left a grandma in tears after he told her to “walk and lose some weight instead”. The 54-year-old was pushing her granddaughter in a pram on a hot day when she went to ask for a ride. But she told last night how she’s been left too afraid to use taxis again [...]

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