As the summer’s sunny days take hold, many people turn to outdoor exercise. But in parts of North America, pleasant weather ...

Objective Pregnant women are advised to avoid heat stress (eg, excessive exercise and/or heat exposure) due to the risk of teratogenicity associated with maternal hyperthermia; defined as a core ...

Our bodies might need environmental stress — like exposure to freezing water and hot temperatures — if we're to reach our full potential.

Finding motivation to exercise can be the greatest challenge in working out. This might be part of the reason why less than a ...

Epigenetic changes occur throughout our lives due to different environmental factors such as stress, exercise, diet, alcohol, and drugs.

Have you seen that when you are stressed or worried, your skin gets flushed or you start to perspire? Although this reaction is an extreme stress response, stress has additiona ...

How environmental stress contributes to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes is under study. Researchers have long thought that environmental stress factors -- things like family dysfunction ...

Research has long shown that exercise reduces heart disease risk, but a new study finds the connection between the two may be a decrease in the brain’s stress signals.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to Purdue’s Gyeong Mee Yoon to research how plants acclimate to environmental stress.

Being forced to exercise may still help reduce anxiety and depression just as exercising voluntarily does, according to a new study.