Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Move more, quit smoking, lose weight: great resolutions, hard to keep. But does it get easier if there is a financial incentive in return? According to research by Radboud University and others, it ...

Researchers have found that women who exhibit disturbed eating behaviors and engage in low physical activity tend to have more central body fat and a higher risk of metabolic low-grade inflammation.

Share on Pinterest Certain strategies and lifestyle behaviors have been linked to reduced cardiovascular disease and mortality risk. Design by MNT; Photography courtesy by Twenty47studio/Getty Images ...

Weight loss is one of the most common health and appearance-related goals. We are a developmental psychologist and a social psychologist who together wrote a forthcoming book, “Beyond Body Positive: A ...

When we have health anxiety, we can sometimes fall into the trap of closely monitoring our bodies to look for symptoms or any signs that we are in danger, whether it is a sign that we have a new ...