For better health and a longer life span, exercise is more important than weight loss, especially if you are overweight or obese, according to an interesting new review of the relationships among fitness, weight, heart health and longevity.... This past research overwhelmingly shows that people who start to exercise rarely lose much, if any, weight, unless they also cut back substantially on food intake.... Exercise simply burns too few calories, in general, to aid in weight reduction....

Cindy Axne of Iowa was slow to get behind a$ 1 trillion infrastructure bill after the Senate passed it last month.... In the weeks since, she won assurances from congressional leaders that a separate multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint would include money for the renewable fuels.... Her biofuels bargain underscores the political strategy embedded in the negotiations over massive new federal spending....