Health & Fitness

Gas stoves are a hot topic. A new study linked them to one in eight childhood asthma cases, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it would look into banning them, and Republicans expressed anger at the mere suggestion.

Whether you're grabbing a coffee, sleeping in, or hitting the gym, you probably don't think much about all the work your heart is putting in just to keep you moving. After all, it's pumping blood to every corner of your body whether you're conscious of it or not.

When it comes to cardiovascular fitness and muscle strength, the adage is true: Use it or lose it. While regular exercise can improve heart health and increase strength and mobility, taking weeks or months off can reverse many of those benefits. That’s not to say that rest days are not important.

Saffron Anderton was at university when she was diagnosed as autistic. The 22-year-old, from Newmarket, Suffolk, also discovered she experiences alexithymia, meaning she cannot identify emotions. Saffron similarly struggles to create mental images in her mind, a condition called aphantasia.

Editor’s Note: Kara Alaimo, an associate professor in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, writes about issues affecting women and social media.

I remember pulling up my pant leg so my doctor could get a better look at the rash on my shin. His eyes widened each time I answered “no” to questions about possible causes from insect bites to chemical sensitivities.

Julie Vadnal was visiting family in Michigan over Christmas when everyone “started to drop like flies,” she said. “The day we left, my mom had gotten a fever, and my sister had gotten a fever, and it was like, we have to get out of here.” Ms.

It was the middle of the night when my racing heart woke me up. I took deep breaths and tried to relax. Abnormal heart rhythms are nothing new for me, so I didn’t panic when this happened late last year.

Exercise stresses our bodies, which is the whole point—taking on a little extra stress makes us stronger in the long run. But we also need to be able to recover from that stress to make use of it.

The weight loss drug Ozempic rocketed into public consciousness last year, and a social media–fueled desire for the medication has led to shortages for patients with type 2 diabetes.

For David Hao, a chronic pain physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the conversation with a new patient experiencing severe chronic pain generally goes like this: He lays out possible treatments, including steroid injections, ablation of painful nerves, acupuncture, physical therapy

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The summer before I started high school, I studied teen magazines like they were holy texts. It was 1995, and I was determined to enter ninth grade looking more like the cool-girl models in Seventeen and YM. I still remember a YM article on “faking a better body.

If your doctor has told you that you need to take proactive steps to lower your blood pressure or improve your cardiovascular health, knowing where to start can feel overwhelming.

The life-extension claim in rodents, made by Rejuvenate Bio, a San Francisco biotech company, appears in a preprint paper on the website BioRxiv and hasn’t been peer reviewed.