Exercise For Older Adults During Coronavirus

Older And Stuck At Home?  Expert Advice On Fitness by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  April 22, 2020.

'Fat But Fit' Is A Myth, Study Says

'Fat But Fit' Is A Myth, Study Says.  HealthDay News.  August 14, 2017. 

Creating A Message For Fit Doctors to Gain Patients

When Your Doctor Is Fitter Than You Are by Lauren C. Howe.  The New York Times.  July 13, 2017. 

Checkup For Aerobic Fitness

Should A Simple Fitness Check Be Part Of Your Checkup? by Gretchen Reynolds.  New York Times.  Nov.  30, 2016.

The Fitness Industry Doesn't Tackle The Basic Causes Of Public Health Problems; Social/Workplace Dimensions Ignored

How The Fitness Industry Gets Rich Doing Nothing by Patrick Mustain.  The Daily Beast.  March 12, 2016

Fitness Age Much Less Than Chronological Age In Older Athletes

Older Athletes Have A Strikingly Young Fitness Age by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  July 1, 2015. 

Keeping Your Balance: A Key To Health As You Get Older

Boost Your Balance;  Avoid Falls by Angela Chen.  The Wall Street Journal.  February 24, 2014.

Provides some  personal assessment methods as well as exercises that, in improving balance, will tend to preserve in old age.

Only 16 Percent Of A Million Georgia Schoolchildren Pass Five Physical Fitness Tests

Georgia's Children Are Out Of Shape by Bo Emerson.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  March 22, 2013.  

20 percent were unable to pass any of the five tests.  Key quote from the Associate Dean of the University of Georgia School of Public Health:  “What we’re seeing from a disease perspective [among children] are diseases normally seen in adults, including hypertension, high cholesterol levels and type 2 diabetes.”