Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaming those extra pounds on a slowing metabolism as you age? Not so fast. A new international study counters the common belief ...

Research published by Duke University researchers has found a strong link between higher stress in children and adverse health conditions for them later in life. Appearing in the journal Proceedings ...

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Packing on the poundage? Sorry, suckers: We can’t use middle-age as our excuse for that spread anymore! A revelatory new study has determined that metabolism, long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, common wisdom and public health messaging have assumed that people in highly developed nations, like the United ...

Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized nations, though it remains rare among people who live ...

Exercise helps you to burn calories and lose weight, right? Not really, according to Herman Pontzer, a leading authority on metabolism and its development through human history. Pontzer laid out the ...

How do you study the upper limits of human endurance? Professor Herman Pontzer of Duke University tracked long-distance athletes running across the country. He talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.