Sugar and sugar-free? How about avoiding both? There’s little doubt that high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages predicts adverse health outcomes. But the links between artificially sweetened beverages and health remain unsettled. Researchers at Harvard and elsewhere recently reported results from 80,647 women followed for 34 years in the Nurses’ Health Study and 37,716 men followed…
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A Dozen Ways to Eat Better
A smorgasbord of possibilities Pick one and make it your own Abundant scientific and medical research confirms that Eat Better is one of the best ways you can improve your health and well-being. But what does Eat Better mean in practice? The following list gives you practical, evidence-based recommendations from which you can pick one.…
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Keep Your Blood Pressure Low
High blood pressure increases risk of chronic diseases But you can lower your blood pressure High blood pressure predicts higher risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and premature mortality. In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and other organizations changed the level of systolic blood pressure used to define hypertension from 140 to 130 mm Hg.…
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Are Americans Eating Better?
Yes, but … We have a long, long way to go Two recent studies suggest that we Americans eat better today than we did 20 years ago. Researchers at Harvard used data from a nationally representative sample of 43,996 American adult participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2016. The…
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