Metabolism

Some studies suggest that consuming large amounts of fructose may increase your risk for obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Learn more about fructose, its sources and harmful effects, and how to reduce your consumption of this sugar.

Short intense bouts of exercise improve cardiac and calorie output and can improve your health. But if you are looking for a quick fix for weight loss or weight maintenance this regime may not hit the spot.

Hypertension, or above normal blood pressure, can remain undetected, but increases the risk for stroke. Learn about risk factors for hypertension and how physical activity and nutrition can reduce those risks and improve your health.

Your nervous system, your primary internal communication system, senses and interprets changes in external and internal body conditions and relays appropriate instructions to organs and tissues in response. How does it work?

Gut biome, microflora, or microbiota, the tiny living organisms that inhabit your gastrointestinal tract impact your health in many ways particularly as a key player in your immune system and in reducing your risk of disease. How?