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I had the chance to catch up with my friend Nicole a couple of months ago. She had recently come back from a few days of downhill skiing in Vermont with her 14-year-old son and her 91-year-old father. Yes, you read that right. Her 91-year-old [...]

Health authorities are not exactly clear how to define it. But the essence is that people who feel good about life live longer. Whatever definition they eventually agree on, there's no doubt that personal well-being is vitally important to health and longevity. It encompasses feelings [...]

Being a night owl is known to raise the risk of a variety of diseases. People who prefer to be more active during the evening, and who go to bed later and get up later, have higher rates of metabolic dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, type 2 [...]

If you’ve had your blood cholesterol tested recently, you ought to know that many researchers now agree with what I’ve believed for years – it’s a dubious guide to your health status. But it’s a persistent medical myth – the notion that your cholesterol levels [...]

A recent investigation into the ways in which exercise affects longevity shows that the amount of exercise you do and its intensity may not be the most important factor in helping you live longer. Instead, in a finding that surprises me, the researchers found that [...]

How can two people both born in the same year appear so different? One looks half their age while the other displays many of the signs of aging. Then again, outward appearances may suggest they’re the same age, but they may have very different health-related [...]

A vast range of herbal teas offers all kinds of health benefits. Heaven knows, they get a lot of publicity, but I still bet you don’t know about a tea with strong anti-aging abilities that’s grown only in a certain region in South Africa. It may even [...]

Scientists have identified five lifestyle factors that will reduce your risk of dying prematurely. Each one will lower your chances by between 3% and 21%. The lead author of the new research stressed that "People should try to incorporate as many of these things into [...]

Scientists have conducted a great deal of research to learn how physical health, diet and genetics relate to longevity, but they’ve paid little attention to mental health or personality. To plug this shortfall, researchers from Italy, Switzerland and the US teamed up to find out [...]

It gets harder to keep muscle strength as you age. We naturally lose muscle mass as we grow older. But how big is this problem, really? When you’re in your 40s, you lose about 1% of your muscle mass and strength each year. By the [...]

If the idea of plastering your face with mud, smearing it with expensive creams, and signing up for Botox or a facelift doesn't appeal to you, there's a new way to turn back the clock on the way you look - and it needn't cost [...]