It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

You try to eat right, exercise and keep your mind engaged so you stay sharp, but it’s hard to know for sure how healthy you will be as you get older. Well, it turns out there may be a way to get ...

1. Single-Leg Stance: Strengthen Stability One Leg at a Time Improving balance starts with simple exercises like the single-leg stance, which focuses on strengthening the lower body and enhancing ...

That said, the longer subjects could hold the stance, the better their individual bodies were faring. The researchers found that the length of time a subject could do the single leg stance was the ...

If you can reach 10 seconds with your eyes closed, you’re doing well. Every time you practise the one leg stance, it is an opportunity to recalibrate your brain As you get older the balance ...

Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze walks us through the reasons behind the majestic bird’s one-legged stance. 3play_processed Ask Smithsonian Explore ...

Our aim was to assess whether the ability to complete a 10- s one-legged stance (10-second OLS) is associated with all-cause mortality and whether it adds relevant prognostic information beyond ...

You can even switch up your stance and shift to a single-leg orientation to build unilateral strength and hone your stability and athleticism. THESE ARE SOME of the best squats that you can add to ...

If you can reach 10 seconds with your eyes closed, you’re doing well. Every time you practise the one leg stance, it is an opportunity to recalibrate your brain As you get older the balance ...