Improve Your Health

Heart Disease Prevention Quiz

Answer this one: Why is lack of regular exercise a major risk factor for heart disease?
Stress Quiz

Stress is a fact of life for most of us. Too much stress can have harmful effects on the body, mind, and emotions. Learn more about stress and its effects by taking this quiz.

Did You Know?

Regular weight-bearing exercise is important for bone health. It keeps your bones, muscles and joints healthy, says the National Women's Health Information Center. It also helps protect you against falls and the fractures that can occur in older adults.

Relieve Stress

Using Yoga to Relieve Stress
Yoga is one of the few stress-relief tools that has a positive effect on all the body systems involved.

Manage Your Weight

Keep Moving to Manage Your Weight
You can lose weight by dieting, exercising, or a combination of both. Including exercise into your daily routine offers other benefits besides weight control.

Maintaining Weight Loss
Keeping extra weight off requires effort and commitment, just as losing weight does.

Smart Fitness: Boost Your Calorie Burn
Certain forms of physical activity are better than others at burning calories while you're exercising.

Protect Your Heart, Improve Circulation

Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Heart
Physical inactivity is just as big a risk factor for heart disease as high blood pressure and smoking are. So, be the exception rather than the rule. Here are eight ways to exercise for a healthier heart.

Making Your Lifestyle Heart-Healthy
The millions of Americans diagnosed with heart and cardiovascular diseases can benefit from making healthy choices in their day-to-day lives.

Preserve Function, Ease Arthritis Pain

Arthritis and Exercise: Q and A
Doctors and physical therapists say people with arthritis can improve their health and fitness through exercise without damaging their joints.

Managing Arthritis with Exercise
Exercise has important health benefits for everyone -- regardless of age and physical condition. But for people with arthritis, working out regularly, and within their limits, is critical.

Bone Up Against Osteoporosis

Arthritis and Exercise: Q and A
Doctors and physical therapists say people with arthritis can improve their health and fitness through exercise without damaging their joints.

Build Your Bones with Exercise
You can help prevent osteoporosis by including enough calcium in your diet and exercising regularly.

Help Control Diabetes

Maintaining Weight Loss
Keeping extra weight off requires effort and commitment, just as losing weight does.

Steps Women Can Take to Reduce Their Diabetes Risk
Type 2 diabetes can be especially deadly for women. Of the nearly 16 million Americans with diabetes, more than half are female.
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