About 500 miles of trails already cut through Hamilton and Boone counties—including 125-plus miles in Carmel—and countless more are on the drawing board as suburban leaders strive to appeal to residents who want connected, walkable communities.
The statistics we hear so often are clear. As a community, we are not in an enviable place. We smoke more, exercise less and weigh more than the national average, resulting in more diabetes than average.
Health club on campus of IUPUI makes up for lost revenue by managing fitness and wellness programs for retirement communities.
Skyrocketing health care costs prompt search for new ways to improve lifestyle choices.
EMC Precision Machining in Sheridan will give each of its 93 employees a new bicycle Friday for exceeding company cost-cutting goals.
Small businesses like KnowSweat Workouts increasingly are adding products and services to keep revenue flowing during tight economic times.
YMCA of Greater Indianapolis officials have started a $40 million fundraising campaign that will be used to fund three more local locations, including a much-delayed $10 million facility in Pike Township.
This week, we meet ex-IUPUI soccer players Peter Brasovan and Jared Byczko, who opened CrossFit NapTown last month in a Delaware Street building that once housed an FBI tactical team.
Health-club chain plans to keep six local locations open, but refer members of closed locations to LA Fitness.
The Children’s Better Health Institute, a division of The Saturday Evening Post Society Inc., plans to ask the Metropolitan Development Commission to rezone a 23-acre parcel on the city’s northwest side.
Partnership combines wellness, hospital services.
The problem is, too many people make unhealthy choices and the consequences of these choices become everyone’s problem.
Local companies are embedding stealthy video messages for high school and college students.
Health reform entrepreneurship could brand Indiana as productive, healthy place for employers to operate.
Federal health reform will trump an Indiana law that allows health insurers to offer steep discounts to employers with healthy workers and which institute aggressive wellness programs, but experts say other provisions will motivate small firms.
Despite reports of how overweight and out of shape Americans are, there are thousands of us who are addicted to working out. We fill gyms all across the land.
Satori Pointe is being marketed as a campus where medical offices, fitness-oriented retailers and residents would co-exist.
UnitedHealthcare believes a program tested in the Indianapolis area will help it save money on claims.
Dr. Judy Monroe, after five years as Indiana’s public health leader, will spearhead communication between federal and state
health agencies.
