High blood pressure is a leading cause of stroke and may be the most significant controllable risk factor. Know your numbers and keep them low. If you have high blood pressure, with medical guidance, work to keep it under control.... Read More
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Use Lifestyle to Drop Your Cancer Risk
Use lifestyle to drop your cancer risk. A healthy lifestyle can reduce cancer incidence. Even more encouraging is a new study that shows that living well can drop cancer risk even among... Read More
5 Pro Tips for You to Dodge Heart Disease
You and I should aim for a diet that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. You know the rest of the drill: Low-fat dairy, poultry, fish, legumes, nuts, and non-tropical vegetable oils. Watch the sweets, red meat, and those beverages that are chock full of sugar. Go here to get help with healthy eating. For me, the DASH diet is an evidence-based diet approach.... Read More
How I Keep My Brain Ridiculously Fit
But wait, there’s more: The antidepressant effects associated with exercise are linked to a drop in stress hormones such as cortisol. Swedish researchers have shown this to be associated with more cell growth in the hippocampus, the brain area responsible for memory and learning.... Read More
How You Can Use Strength Training to Improve Your Health
While we lack randomized trials of exercise to prevent cardiovascular disease or death in a healthy population, we have observational studies that point to the ability of regular exercise to lower the risk of all-cause and disease-specific mortality for most individuals.... Read More
Two Exercise Myths
Two Exercise Myths: What You Should Know I remember that I gained about 10 pounds after I turned fifty years old. In retrospect, I gained the weight for a simple... Read More