Making changes to your eating, exercise, sleep, and social behaviors may help improve your overall health and prevent conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Your “lifestyle” ...

Picking up a healthy new habit could extend your life—plus, three other factors that could help (or hurt) your longevity odds ...

Your heart is with you for every moment of your life—but the way you care for it shouldn’t look the same at 25 as it does at 65. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and ...

I was very excited about the release of the POINTER study on July 30, 2025. This two-year, multi-site trial involving 2,111 older adults concluded that a structured program combining healthy lifestyle ...

Building healthy habits is all about getting informed, figuring out what you want to change, setting goals to put those ideas into action, and being consistent. It’s simple enough, but as with ...

The study found that a combination of exercise, healthy diet and other behaviors led to cognitive benefits. How much intense guidance is required was unclear, experts said. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck ...

Think of strength as insurance. Maybe you don't care about how much you can lift, but you should want to know how to get stronger so you can live life to the fullest. Strong legs help you kick a ball ...

People with Type 2 diabetes who combined healthy lifestyle habits with GLP-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications had a greater reduction in risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, including ...

During my two decades of service in military medicine, I saw the extraordinary demands on U.S. service members. Our military personnel must perform at the maximum level, sometimes under grueling ...

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The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars. Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what ...