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Live Longer, Live Better

Live Longer, Live Better
Will greater longevity lead to lower quality of life due to chronic diseases, frailty, and disability? James Fries, a researcher at Stanford University, thought that seniors with healthier lifestyles would live longer yet have less cumulative disability than those with less healthy lifestyles. Beginning in 1984, Fries and his colleagues studied 523 men and women…
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The Healthiest Community in America?

The Healthiest Community in America?
What’s the longest-lived community in the US and where is it located? Maybe in the bucolic countryside of Vermont? Or maybe in Utah with its concentration of teetotalers and non-smokers. Or how about Lake Wobegon, Minnesota? Believe it or not, it’s in the crowded, smoggy Los Angeles basin of southern California. It’s the City of…
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Huge Health Benefits of Brief Walking

Huge Health Benefits of Brief Walking
Walking for 15 minutes starting a half hour after each daily meal. It might be the best thing you can do to elevate your health and well-being. Here’s the science behind this claim. Researchers at George Washington University and the US Department of Agriculture (DiPrieto et al. 2013) conducted a pilot study with ten inactive,…
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Did You Get Your 10,000 Steps Today?

Did You Get Your 10,000 Steps Today?
If you sit most of the time and don’t move very much, you could be heading toward a health disaster. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that physical activity helps protect you from a host of chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. And if that’s not enough, physical activity confers a host of…
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