Edward M. Eveld

By EDWARD M. EVELD / MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Birthdays are motivators. Last March, Tere Gathright was staring at 32. She had an unkind thought about herself. Birthdays are motivators. Last March, Tere Gathright was staring at 32. She had an unkind…

By EDWARD M. EVELD / MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS It happened at a music festival, as you probably could have guessed. “There was a girl who let me borrow her hoop, and I haven’t put it down since,” Sarah Noelle Dettmer said. She doesn’t mean that literally,…

Jake Nothnagel had been hitting the gym faithfully, and it showed. On a recent shopping trip, while trying on clothes, he had reason to be pleased. “This shirt really looks good on me,” Nothnagel thought. Three years ago, Nothnagel began his…

Sallie Wickens’ life followed a death-defying narrative that traced the medical arc of hepatitis C: A blood-transfusion infection after a car accident in 1959, when she was 5; a positive test for the virus when she was 30; 10 years of deteriorating…

If running 15 miles a week is heart healthy, running 45 miles a week gives you a cardiovascular system three times as clean and strong, right? A new study is sounding the alarm about such thinking, adding to a growing body of research on the topic of…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nicole Lindemann, a business owner, wife and mom, speaks the truth: “Basically, I’m like everyone else in the world – we’re not getting any younger or any better in shape.” So, resolutionaries, time to bust a move. But how,…

By EDWARD M. EVELDSixteen-year-old Montana Ivory had been an excellent customer for Coke, Mountain Dew and Monster Energy — until he got the message about calories.“I’d end up drinking a half-liter and not even notice it was gone,”…

By EDWARD M. EVELDThe biggest barrier to working out is time. So fitness trainers hate to see anyone frittering away precious workout periods or filling them with less-than-effective exercises. Actually, it makes them crazy.We asked a few trainers to…

By EDWARD M. EVELD Corey Scott grips a truck tire with both hands and stands with his back to a brick wall. He lifts the tire while rotating his upper body and slams it against the wall over his left shoulder.The kickback is impressive, but he…

By EDWARD M. EVELDThis is just what you need, in the aftermath of pumpkin pie and the advent of holiday parties: gross-out science about deep belly fat. But first, some encouragement. Cyd Nelson and Suzy Wiley, both of Kansas City, Mo., both trim…