Exercise More; Live Longer – Dr. Oz – Time Magazine
I was cleaning up a pile of old magazines and ran across an issue of Time Magazine. It was the one on The Science of Living Longer. Naturally, I had to read some of it before disposing of it. Most of...
View ArticleRegular Physical Activity Produces Broad Health Benefits for Seniors- U.S.
A government study showed broad health benefits for older Americans who engaged in regular physical activity. BUT, If you are under the age of 50 please don’t discount the information in this study. If...
View ArticleHappy People Live Longer – Time Magazine
There was a 35 percent decrease in the risk of dying during a five-year study among people who reported being happy, content or excited on a typical day, compared with those who were sadder or more...
View ArticlePeople with Healthy Habits Live Longer – Study
Back in 1965 a group of researchers decided to study of quality of life, not just existence. They wanted to learn the effect of personal health habits on the quality of life, chronic conditions and...
View ArticleEven Moderate Regular Exercise Can Add Years to Your Life
“It doesn’t take a lot of exercise to dramatically improve the way you age. Even moderate exercise helps neutralize free radicals, boost your immune system and even grow new brain cells,” according to...
View ArticleMore Good Reasons to Stop Smoking
Regular readers know I am an avid anti-smoking person. One of the most popular Pages on this blog is How Bad is Smoking? As I wrote on that Page, “Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause...
View ArticleSecrets of Lifelong Health
One of the courses I have taken from The Great Courses is “Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at any Age” by Doctor Anthony Goodman. There are 36 lectures in the course and I would recommend...
View ArticleBody Hacks for a Longer Life – Infographic
As 2014 winds down, a lot of us are re-evaluating things heading into 2015. Here are a number of helpful and healthful hacks that can keep the only equipment humming along for another 12 months. Eat...
View ArticlePrescription for Living Longer: Spend Less Time Alone
Tony:“Not only are we at the highest recorded rate of living alone across the entire century, but we’re at the highest recorded rates ever on the planet,” said Tim Smith, co-author of the study. “With...
View ArticleRegular, Vigorous Exercise May Lengthen Your Life: Study
Tony:The study involved more than 204,000 people aged 45 or older who were followed for more than six years. Researchers compared those who engaged in only moderate activities — like gentle swimming,...
View ArticleExercise More and Live Longer – New York Times
Gretchen Reynolds, writing in the New York Times, had some great information on the value of exercise in terms of living longer. She said that one of the problems with exercise is that experts aren’t...
View ArticleOne hundred years young: Frank Booth’s vision for a healthier America
Tony:“We’re spending too much money on curing and not enough on preventing to have to cure,” he said. Though the NIH has made recent changes to include more exercise physiologists on its review...
View ArticleLongevity Facts Revealed in 50 Year Study of Men Who Made It to 100
Tony:“Our findings that there is a correlation with maternal but not paternal longevity are fully consistent with a previous studies,” Dr. Wilhelmsen says. There is some really good information in...
View ArticlePeople with Healthy Habits Live Longer – Study
Duh! What a shocker, right? But please don’t let that obviousness (?) keep you from reading this as it includes quality of life insights which are important. Back in 1965 a group of researchers decided...
View ArticleRegular Physical Activity Produces Broad Health Benefits for Seniors- U.S.
A government study showed broad health benefits for older Americans who engaged in regular physical activity. BUT, If you are under the age of 50 please don’t discount the information in this study. If...
View ArticleIncreased Activity Decreases Mortality – University Study
I have used the phrases move it or lose it and eat less, move more, live longer more times than I can remember. Any guesses? Now comes a new University of Pennsylvania study that reiterates those...
View ArticleDoes Exercise Reduce Our Chances of Alzheimer’s?
Regular readers know how strongly I feel about including exercise in our daily life. This is not just for weight control, but because our bodies are organic machines that need to move and be...
View ArticleHealth and Fitness Ideas
Instead of health and fitness funnies, I thought I would pass on some of these graphic ideas that impressed me recently. Hopefully, this week the laugh isn’t on me. In conclusion, I wish more...
View ArticleReal Preventive Medicine: The 5 Keys to Staying Healthy
It’s nice to hear your own ideas come out of someone else’s brain. To amplify this very useful post, check out these posts: How much do you need to exercise? Super tools for handling stress Sleep...
View ArticleWhy do some unhealthy people live so long?
Eat less; move more; live longer. I don’t know how many times I have written those words or you have read them. But, they are one of the cornerstones of this blog. You can get lots more detail...
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