Just as we’re comfortable thinking the one-size-fits-all advice that exercise gets rid of the blues — or the blahs if you’re not cool — research in the Archives of General Psychiatry says that relief of depression and anxiety may be due to…

Tim Russert’s death was unnerving news to a lot of people struggling with their weight, blood pressure and other high-risk factors for heart disease. Russert had recently passed a stress test and was on several medications to control his blood…

The first two marathons I ran were miserable. I arrived at the starting line (note: I said STARTING line) injured and fatigued. Staring down 26.2 miles under such conditions is depressing. Both races took me far longer to run and recover…

Yesterday, I went for  6-mile run at about 5:30.  That’s p.m., n0t a.m.  Temperatures were still hovering near 83 degrees.  Sounds stupid, I know. But I run quite a bit, so I knew I wouldn’t drop dead from heat exhaustion. Nevertheless,…