The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports is all set to unveil an adult fitness on Wednesday. The test will measure factors such as resting heart rate, muscular strength and endurance and body mass to determine if you are healthy or at risk for disease.

The new test, which is targeting people18 and older will measure most of the exercises that students undertake each year to get a certificate signed by the president. The test involves three basic components: aerobic fitness, muscular strength and flexibility. It tests the aerobic component by a one-mile walk or 1.5-mile run but is not recommended for those who don't run for at least 20 minutes, three times a week

Researchers have concluded that men and women typically have different tastes in food with men favoring meat and poultry while women tend to prefer fruits and vegetables.

The study is based on the behavior of 14,000 adult men and women surveyed from May 2006 to April 2007 for the Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). The aim of the study was to determine their eating habits, including high risk foods such as undercooked meat and eggs

A study by the Harvard School of Medicine has shown people with a better education live longer. Those with more than 12 years of education, which includes more than a high school diploma, can expect to live to 82. However for those with 12 or fewer years of education, life expectancy is pegged at 75.

Lead researcher Ellen R. Meara, an assistant professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School said, "The life expectancy gained is really occurring much more so in the better-educated groups." The better-educated gained more than 1.5 years over the same period, the study showed

A recent study revealed that teenage Americans who skip breakfast are those most likely to have weight problems, compared to those who do take the time to eat their morning meal.

The researchers from University of Minnesota's Project EAT drew their findings from an experiment that involved 2,216 teenagers, whose breakfast habits were observed for five straight years. The analysis of the gathered data revealed that compared to those who did not, students who ate breakfast gained less weight and had lower body mass index

A recent study concluded that about 10 percent of Americans have not been getting appropriate amounts of sleep in the past month; the figure adds up to about 50-70 million people. Surveys done by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (DCD) revealed that the amount of sleep for people varies by age, and younger people are getting the least amount of sleep among the tested age groups.

With subjects coming from Delaware, Hawaii, New York and Rhode Island, 13.3 percent of people between ages 18 and 34 reported that they were not getting the appropriate amounts of sleep. The figure showed higher than the 7.3 percent for adults over the age of 55