Category Archives: Healthy living

Keep Moving to Help Your Kidneys Work Better

Keep Moving to Help Your Kidneys Work Better
Kidney function declines, sometimes rapidly, in older people Physical activity can slow the decline Chronic kidney disease rarely makes newspaper headlines, but it’s a rapidly growing health condition in older adults. If kidney disease itself isn’t bad enough, it increases risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. Might healthy lifestyle choices, such as Keep Moving,…
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Coronary Heart Disease Quiz

Coronary Heart Disease Quiz
What’s your risk of coronary heart disease? Can you lower that risk? Coronary heart disease refers to conditions that adversely affect your heart's structure and function. It accounts for about 30 percent of all deaths globally and 80 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths in developed countries. A decade and a half ago, European researchers in…
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Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting gains popularity Can it improve your health? Intermittent fasting includes several versions of time restricted eating, that is, confining food intake to part of a day (say, from 10 am to 6 pm) or to one or two days each week. Intermittent fasting appears to promote favorable responses of certain organ systems, especially…
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Help Others and Help Yourself

Caregiving can promote volunteering and increase longevity Grandparenting – up to a point – benefits health and well-being Given that chronic stress can adversely affects our health, what can we do to defuse those undesirable effects? Recent research suggests a way: help other people. The Changing Lives of Older Couples Study followed married couples with…
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