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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “Fit Nation,” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts the evolution of our national attitudes toward fitness. By Yasmine AlSayyad When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...

“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 ...