A major health scare is often the strongest motivator for people to make lifestyle changes. Successfully changing long-term habits requires a firm decision rather than simply wanting to change. Making ...

If you’re planning to make a resolution or two this new year, here are some tips on how to make it stick past January. Fireworks are launched from a barge in the Delaware River as seen from Penns ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Anyone who fantasizes about the new and improved version of themselves that awaits on the other side of the ball drop can relate to the special blend of optimism and self-criticism that the New Year ...

Every January, millions of people make resolutions. By February, most have abandoned them. The failure rate, depending on which study you cite, hovers around 80 percent. We know this. We've lived it.

Clinical psychologist Diana Hill and movement specialist Katy Bowman are the authors of I Know I Should Exercise But … 44 Reasons We Don't Move and How to Get Over Them. When you're stressed or tired, ...