NY Times September 28, 2011, 12:01 AM How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Doug Menuez/Getty Images Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising. Earlier... Read More

NY Times: The Fierce Intimacy of Tennis Rivalries Rafael Nadal was working his way into a point about tennis rivalries. It was near the end of the third day of the Wimbledon Championships in late June, and Nadal, an hour or so earlier, efficiently dispensed with his second-round opponent, the hard-hitting but chronically inconsistent American Ryan Sweeting, in straight sets. Now, freshly showered,... Read More

From The Wall Street Journal: The Hottest Team in the NFL The Houston Texans’ outdoor morning training-camp practices last week looked routine enough: The offense and defense went through drills to prepare for an upcoming preseason game with the New York Jets. Afterward, though, the scales in the locker room revealed something extraordinary: Faced with a searing heat wave, Texans players lost... Read More

Despite the bombardment of news about the dangers of obesity and the billions of dollars poured into healthy choice programs, America is getting fatter. A new report from Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan advocacy group, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that not one state has reported a decrease in obesity. In fact, adult obesity rates have increased in 16 states in the... Read More

“Food marketers have tried to reach children since the age of the carnival barker, but they’ve never had so much access to them and never been able to bypass parents so successfully,” said Susan Linn, a psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, an advocacy coalition. Ms. Linn and others point to many studies that show the link... Read More