Regular weightlifting may extend your life, a new study suggests Adults who reported that they lifted weights had a lower risk of mortality than those who did not. Sept. 27, 2022, 6:03 PM EDT ...

And extra moderate exercise like walking was even more protective, with 26 to 31% lower risk of death for participants who did 300 to 600 minutes a week.

The study’s results included the responses of 99,713 people; 28,477 of them died over an average of 9½ years of monitoring. The average age at the start of the monitoring period was 71, and the ...

Dr. Gary Churchill and his team at The Jackson Laboratory tracked the health of nearly one thousand mice on a variety of diets to see if these diets would extend the mice’s lifespan. The study ...

The higher rate of exercise- and weightlifting-related craniofacial injuries in men may reflect social pressures to exercise or lift weights beyond their capacity – sometimes called "ego lifting." ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. - A new study suggests that regularly pumping iron could lower the risk of death in older adults. A team of scientists from the National Cancer Institute recently published their ...