Gene linked to obesity and Alzheimer's disease

Increasingly soft nation is a serious threat to our defense. Millions unfit for duty.

Iowa struggles to reshape its physical culture

Relaxed mind improves memory

Scouts once led the way in training boys to become physically, mentally and morally straight men

Our changing cultural values have changed scouting at the expense of many boys who join hoping for a safe and meaningful experience

Scientists began encouraging static stretching before physical activity in the late-1970's.
Some experts today disagree.

Thanks for all the useful information.  These newsletters are super.
Do you know where the term "Daily Dozen" came from?

Football legend Walter Camp wrote a book by that title in 1925 to encourage people to exercise.
By then it was a term widely used to describe just about everything from groups of bathing beauties to points in sermons delivered on a Sunday morning.
Camp created the term during WWI to describe the exercises he developed for Navy training stations.
By the early-1900's, the European-based physical training systems brought by immigrants were giving way to sport and games, and the physical training was degrading. 
The daily dozen were a series of simple exercises that resonated with the masses.

I'm looking for an old image to illustrate the health fads from old times.  Any advice?  Thanks.

This one is very creative.

You have mentioned that boxers used Indian clubs many years ago.  Do you have a photo?

Here's one.  Another is located in one of the past newsletters.