If calorie counts won’t deter people from overeating, maybe the threat of exercise will. In a recent study, diners who ordered from restaurant menus that listed the amount of brisk walking ... Read more
AT 12:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, the chief executive of Datalogix was spider-crawling across a conference room floor. All around him, account managers and data analysts were thrusting 20-pound medicine balls ... Read more
A Zumba instructor in Kennebunk, Me., pleaded guilty on Friday to using her dance studio as a front for a prostitution ring that involved scores of men in New England. The plea means that the instructor, Alexis ... Read more
CHICAGO — Michelle Obama announced the name of the best picture via satellite for the Academy Awards ceremony in order to promote the arts among children, her principal constituency, she said in an ... Read more
CHICAGO — As part of her campaign to curb childhood obesity, Michelle Obama on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to increase physical education in the country’s public schools with the help of ... Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Imagine students learning their ABCs while dancing, or memorizing multiplication tables while doing jumping jacks? Some schools are using both methods of instruction and Michelle Obama would like ... Read more
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — On a recent afternoon, the third graders in Sharon Patelsky’s class reviewed words like “acronym,” “clockwise” and “descending,” as well ... Read more
For the last few weeks, GNC, the dietary supplements retailer, has run a special on its Web site for a workout booster called Jack3d. “Hot Buy, Hot Buy, Hot Buy,” reads a red banner splashed across ... Read more
WHAT’S the point of having Michelle Obama’s triceps if you can’t show them off in a smart sleeveless sheath? That seems to be the thinking behind a remake of Self magazine, the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — How many pull-ups does it take to make a female Marine? The answer, starting next January: a minimum of three, the same number required of male Marines. If anyone ... Read more