Fitness

These juicy plant-based burgers could fool even a meat lover. But are they actually healthier for us?

A wider waist is dangerous for reasons we don’t fully grasp

A new scientific research project to help you get active—and keep you motivated

Advice from an N.Y.U. food policy symposium: eating healthfully means you can't ever let down your guard when shopping.

The placebo effect may be an integral part of what we call the Champion’s Mindset

A promising new class of lung-cancer therapies can simply be inhaled, minimizing the side effects to other, healthy organs

Is an oil-free diet healthier? What are the arguments for and against eliminating oil from your diet?

Psychological approaches can help control the agony and lessen the need for drugs

Is six meals a day the secret to losing weight?

The jutting midface of Neandertals seems to have evolved to help get large volumes of air into an active body that needed lots of oxygen.

Many fitness researchers and coaches believe that there is a disconnect between the wearable "fitness tracker" market and how people are using them

When I applied for medical school, I knew I was signing up for hard work—but I had not expected this