"The kids who are opting out are getting teased and bullied ... We have one little girl whose classmates told her her parents are stupid because she opted out. That’s not supposed to happen in our schools," argues attorney Dean Broyles while explaining why yoga should be kept out of public schools.
Discovered: The black hole that takes up the most space, proportionally speaking; how running can be bad for you; why "keep your eye on the ball" is good advice after all; developing a universal cancer blood test.
Yes, Americans are getting fatter, but not all of us are, right? Now you can see in this interactive from Scientific American of the changing rates of obesity, heavy drinking, and tobacco use by state.
Discovered: Exercise counterintuitively reduces hunger; killer whales moms are mom enough; sexual arousal makes people do gross things; a newly discovered monkey stares deep into your soul.
Discovered: Exercise reduces breast cancer risk, two classes of wine a day keeps the doctor away, kids have worse allergies than previously thought and it just takes two degrees of warming for bit climate change.
"Work" and "exercise" are being combined to a greater and greater degree, as if someone forgot that these are two totally separate things, not meant for combining at all.
Discovered: There is such a thing as too much exercise, a new Prostate cancer drug, American heads are getting bigger and bug bombs don't work on bed bugs
Discovered: Kids brains look different than adults brains when exercising, how to make schools healthier and how thunderclouds are contributing to climate change.
The New York Athletic Club has been around for 144 years. It has traditions, a storied history, and a commitment to excellence. It is also now, and forever will be, the location of a brawl.
There's a new Wall Street workout in town.
Discovered: Goats can develop accents, drinking alcohol shrinks brains, another study confirms vaccines don't cause autism.
The Sunday's New York Times's experts at observing trendy trends have uncovered an exhausting development for the working world: "sweatworking," they call it.
Another fad health drink debunked
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