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Changing Diet to Extend Life: Healthy Food Choices Can Add 8 to 13 Years

Dietary risk factors are estimated to cause 11 million deaths annually. Can a healthy diet extend your life span? According to recent research, it very likely can. We've known for years that diets containing plenty of ...

What Are Meat Sweats? Plus How to Prevent Them

If you've ever eaten a meal that's very high in protein, let's say from meat, eggs or fish, and then noticed that you feel pretty hot and even sweaty afterward, it's not all in your ...

Eating Disorders in Men on the Rise, Studies Show

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have long been portrayed as being mostly "feminine problems," considering they affect girls and women much more often than males. In fact, most research has shown that females are twice ...

American Heart Association: Smoking Harms Brain Health

As if you needed another reason to avoid or quit smoking, new research from the American Heart Association (AHA) found evidence that smoking harms brain health. We all know that smoking can lead to a whole ...

How to Beat Autoimmune: 6 Keys to Reclaim Your Health

If you’re dealing with frustrating or debilitating autoimmune symptoms — like profound fatigue, aches and pain, numbness and tingling or brain fog — you know how they wreak havoc on your life. But it doesn’t ...

Walking 10 Minutes a Day Linked to Longer Life

When you do it enough and consistently, walking can help you lose weight and gain strength in your lower body and back, and a new study even found that walking 10 minutes a day can have ...

Study Shows Exercise and Cognition Link in Elderly

It's well-known that exercise is extremely important to overall health, but do you ever think about its impact on your memory? A new study shows the remarkable connection between exercise and cognition among older adults. The ...

Study: Online Grocery Nutrition Labeling Severely Lacking

Most health-conscious people do their due diligence when buying groceries, reading food labels to ensure they consume the healthiest products they can. However, in a day and age when online shopping has become the norm ...

Olive Oil and Longevity: Can It Help You Live Longer?

Researchers have known for decades that olive oil consumption can help lower cardiovascular disease risk, but its associations with other causes of mortality (death) is less clear. Now, new research has shown the connection between ...

Can Exercise Reduce Anxiety? New Study Gives Us An Answer

Did you know that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S.? Over 40 million adults age 18 and older are affected; this equates to 18 percent of the population. In fact, ...