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Don't Want to Get Sick? Break a Sweat: Physical Fitness Curbs Colds

(Nov. 2) -- Incorporating fitness into your daily lifestyle can do more than mitigate stress and help maintain a healthy weight. Just in time for the winter sniffles, a new study concludes that a physically fit body can also ward off the common cold. What did the study determine? Around 1,000 adults were tracked...

Squirrels Are Getting Fatter Now, Too (Thanks to Global Warming!)

(July 21) -- Some squirrels are getting a lot plumper than they used to be, but the root cause of their weight gain isn't what you might suspect (not saturated-fatty nuts, sorry!): It's global warming. That's the conclusion drawn in a three-decade-long study on the yellow-bellied marmots -- large ground squirrels also...