American Heart Association news

People who get regular, uninterrupted sleep do a better job sticking to their exercise and diet plans while trying to lose weight, according to new ... More

Researchers at Harvard have found the optimal amount of exercise is between 150 and 600 minutes a week, with no harm done by intensity, but ... More

Vegetables are more important than fruit in a healthy diet, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The study of nearly two million adults ... More

Tech giant Amazon has entered the highly-contested health and fitness tracking market with a huge splash, launching an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable alongside a subscription ... More

People who take up exercise in their later years – regardless of their previous activity levels – are able to considerably improve their heart health ... More

Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting leads to a measurable increase in the work-related physical activity levels of ... More

High intensity interval training (HIIT) has been hailed as the best form of exercise for battling Type 2 diabetes in research presented at the American ... More

For better cardiovascular health, check your gut. Bacteria living in your gut may impact your weight, fat and good cholesterol levels, according to new research ... More

Apple has unveiled a new software framework called ResearchKit, which it hopes will enable 700 million iPhone users worldwide to participate in health studies and ... More

As little as a half hour’s vigorous exercise or an hour of moderate exercise each day could be enough to reduce your risk of heart ... More

Spa Opportunities can exclusively reveal plans for an ambitious US$3m (€2.22, £1.84m) wellness retreat in the foothills of India’s Himalayan mountains, combining ancient Ayurvedic methods ... More

UK medical advisory body NICE has suggested that local authorities should modify screening protocols for ethnic minorities, to act as an early warning sign against ... More

New guidelines from the American heart Association (AHA) show specific ways to eat and exercise for a healthier heart and to reduce the risk of ... More

Image: Exercise lowers the risk of inflammations A new study has shown that middle-aged adults who regularly engage in leisure-time physical activity for more than ... More

A study, described as the first to quantify the specific amounts of physical activity required to lower the risk of coronary heart disease, has shown ... More

Former Paralympic athlete Kevin Saunders is pushing his wheelchair across the US in a 2,000-mile health and fitness tour known as The Big Push. Saunders ... More