Dr. Gupta talks to Fit Nation Challenged athlete Denise Castelli, who does more with one leg than she ever did with two. Fit Nation: Small steps to a big goal updated Mon May 21 2012 16:32:27 Dr.

A historian by training, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela has a PhD and is a history professor focused on the 20th century United States. But her new book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise ...

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s “Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession” contains one inconsequential detail that fully captured my attention: Luxurious mid-century gyms were ...

When fitness guru Jack LaLanne opened a gym in Oakland, Calif., in the 1930s, he had to hire a blacksmith to build the equipment: fitness machines did not yet exist. As Natalia Mehlman Petrzela writes ...

Six CNN viewers were selected to be a part of the Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge program. Follow the "6-pack" on Twitter and Facebook as they train to race the Nautica Malibu Triathlon with Dr. Sanjay ...

A new program geared toward helping Soldiers meet their fitness goals has been released by Irwin Army Community Hospital. Fit Nation is a comprehensive multidisciplinary health, wellness and fitness ...

“The pursuit of fitness... has simultaneously become a universal ideal and a stark dividing line” that reinforces class and racial divisions, according to this comprehensive account from New School ...