By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Aerobic fitness is generally tied to a longer life, but the same can’t be said for obese people, according to new research. In a study of nearly 1.3 million young Swedish men, the least fit normal-weight men were still less likely to die over the next few decades than the most fit of the obese men. The new findings suggest it’s more important to be a normal weight at a young age than it is to be fit, said senior author Peter Nordstrom, of Umea University in Sweden.

By Bill Bradley for GQ.Anyone who cares about his health already knows to purge the cupboard of refined carbohydrates and added sugars–your white breads, your Tropicanas. And yet many of us live with a rising dread that we are accidentally ingesting terrible things that we don’t even know are terrible, or that are more terrible than we’d…

By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The environmental, health and animal welfare benefits of a meat-free diet are well known – but convincing people to forgo crispy bacon or juicy steak for the rest of their lives is not easy. “We’re at a place in society where very few people are vegan or vegetarian,” said Brian Kateman, an American researcher who co-founded the Reducetarian Foundation. “In order to move that movement forward we need more people, and I don’t think we’re going to be successful in doing that if we’re promoting an all or nothing message,” he told Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.