Heart and cancer risks: life's a gamble

The treatment for heart-risky cholesterol levels is generally a three-legged stool: exercise, diet, and statins, a pharmaceutical. But there are risks—a risk if I kick out the stool’s statin leg, and a risk if I don’t.

Controversial food

The chaos of nutritional change, contradiction, and confusion.

Eggs are not healthy, says a report that scrambles a controversy

Don't get fooled by the local eating edict

Why walking is world's best exercise

Diary of an old man's long walk

My impaired 79-year-old heart takes me, very slowly, on my first matathon

How to get big gains from no-pain exercise

Run for your life. Or just walk.

Don't kill yourself with exercise

I meet the nicest people when walking.

How to beat the heat and humidity

Oh, those aching muscles!

Black hat best for hiking—unless it's a white hat.

MORNING GLORY. The joy of sunrise walking.