Fitness & Nutrition

Fitness & Nutrition

Fitness and nutrition are important to anyone's overall health journey, but especially for those with a chronic condition. Read more.

Amr Elbeshir was bored with going to the gym and lifting weights. He wanted something that would exercise his mind...
“PF Flyers make you run faster and jump higher,” boasted an old advertisement for Keds ® sneakers. Turns out those...
To play or not to play? For kids with bleeding disorders, that is the question—at camp, at school, at home...
Eating healthy is easier said than done, especially for people who are managing a chronic condition like a bleeding disorder...
The US Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled Healthy People 2020, the nation’s new 10-year goals and objectives...
For Lilliam Bervis, fun and fitness have become perfect partners. Bervis, 24, of Miami, has been salsa dancing for nearly...
Swimming is a great exercise for people with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.
Moderate hemophilia A hasn’t stopped Mitchell Renville from hiking the 2,165-mile Appalachian Trail. The trek took him from Georgia to...
Bob Stribula, 59, has been biking for about half a century. He has no plans to stop. From spring through...
Perry Parker’s father introduced him to golf when he was 10 years old. Parker took to it so well that...
Yoga studios are popping up across the country these days. For people with bleeding disorders, that’s a good thing. Yoga...
Have you ever wondered what those old-fashioned-­looking black tables with straps are used for at the gym? More than likely...
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