Fitness

A grassroots fitness movement called the November Project is drawing big crowds for early morning workouts around Boston. Now this free exercise ‘tribe’ is expanding. The World’s Andrea Crossan decided to take the challenge to join a November Project.

A survey in the United Kingdom recently found that a majority of the nation’s police officers are overweight. In response, a proposal has been floated to require fitness testing of all officers. But some police say this is unnecessarily broad.

400 years after the Spanish banned it, amaranth is making a comeback in Mexico as a high-nutrition staple that’s also resistant to climate change.

Italian paleopathologist Valentina Giuffra has been studying the skeletons of nine children born to the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance. She tells anchor Marco Werman that their bones showed signs of rickets.

A new study outlines 10 key nutrition interventions that could save almost a million children a year. Host Marco Werman speaks with lead author Zulfiqar Bhutta of Pakistan’s Aga Khan University.