Starting and sticking with a healthy lifestyle is tough. It's a complex proposition with multiple dimensions. There are the challenges associated with behavior change and the difficulty of altering ...

1. Reduce friction. Make the desired behavior easier than the old one. Adjust meeting practices, deadlines, and norms to support new routines. 2. Shape environments. When the cues around people ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about video? A selection of videos shows variations over time in how health ...

HOUSTON — Chronic disease is a modern plague: Nearly half of adults have either diabetes or pre-diabetes, one in three suffers from high blood pressure and more than two-thirds are overweight or obese ...

Spectrum Labs has created natural language AI that can parse online text for toxic behavior. And now it has figured out how to identify healthy online behavior and reward it. The Miami company has ...

"I am convinced now more than ever that teaching healthy online behavior is crucial to securing a safer future for our children," the first lady said this week First Lady Melania Trump called for ...

Good habits are at the core of healthy lifestyles. Finding the motivation to act and then moving from unhealthy practices to more positive routines focused on diet and exercise is a common pathway.

Scientists from Cologne and Utrecht have found that employees are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables as well as engage in physical activity when their colleagues encourage a healthy lifestyle.

A recent article from Kevin Williamson has generated a fair amount of discussion about the relationship between poverty and behavior. Kevin writes that the poverty he witnessed growing up was at least ...

PHILADELPHIA — A unique, easily implemented, low-cost coaching program appears to improve adherence to brain healthy behaviors in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), mild dementia, and ...

Showering daily, eating junk food at school, going to bed early, jogging every morning, biting your nails when nervous, and watching TV when you get home from work are all examples of habits. Habit ...

Certain types of tapeworm make sticklebacks behave carelessly and thus become easier prey for birds. A team of biologists have now demonstrated for the first time that the tapeworm not only influences ...