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Ted Rechtshaffen: Combining your financial and health picture along with general life expectancy data gets you a good part of the way there
Published May 29, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 5 minute read
Nobody knows how long they will live. But, there is general data available on how many years toward the end of your life will be spent suffering from ill health. That can help you plan how to make your last money and get the most out of it while you still feel good. Photo by GETTY IMAGES…
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The World Health Assembly adopts more Best Buys to tackle non-communicable diseases
The World Health Organization has expanded the list of ‘NCD best buys’. The updated list was approved at the 76thth World Health Assembly, a move that will support governments to select life-saving interventions and policies for the world’s biggest killers, non-communicable diseases. This gives countries of every income a level of support to improve the health of their citizens.
Interventions offered include taxes and bans on advertising for tobacco and alcohol, reformulation of policies for healthier food and drinks and the promotion and support of optimal breastfeeding practices.
The new list also includes secondary prevention for rheumatic fever, acute and…
Can a healthy lifestyle ward off memory decline?
An increasing amount of evidence suggests that a healthy lifestyle is linked to better thinking skills later in life. But few studies have looked at healthy lifestyle effects on memory in particular, and none have considered the effects on memory in people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Now a study from China offers insight. The study, published online Jan. 25, 2023, by BMJ, involved more than 29,000 people without dementia (average age 72). Participants initially underwent cognitive testing as well as genetic testing for genes known to raise risk for Alzheimer’s, and reported how well they stuck to…
How This Entrepreneur Balances Work and Healthy Living
With the rise of the gig economy, major technological advancements, and more people starting their own businesses or working as freelancers than ever before, it’s safe to say that we’re living in the age of the entrepreneur. But many running scalable businesses need help to balance their professional and personal lives while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. What is the best way to strike a balance? Planning and preparing, and this goes beyond the usual end-of-week check-in—from organizing your errands around a workout or class to optimize your schedule to prepping your weekly meals in advance.
For the busy bodies of…
5 Easy Habits for a Healthy & Happy Lifestyle
Everyone wants to live a happy and healthy life. However, juggling work, family, and responsibilities can make it hard to achieve that goal. In trying to do the best in every aspect of our lives, we end up sacrificing our health, whether mentally or physically, and sometimes we do it for things that are not really necessary. With the fast pace of life, our habits are becoming worse as time passes by; and in our minds, it seems like the road to being healthy is full of obstacles and challenges.
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People too tired to lead healthier lifestyles, UK survey finds | Health
It’s the question many of us ask ourselves: why don’t I exercise more, eat better food and generally lead a healthier lifestyle?
For many who want to, but just can’t seem to make it happen, it turns out the answer to that question is – feeling just too tired.
A survey has found that tiredness is why 35% of people don’t make changes to their diet and physical activity levels that would help them close the gap between good intentions and concrete action.
The results, from a YouGov poll of 2,086 UK adults for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF),…
UVA researchers want to help you live a longer, higher quality life
As more people live longer, University of Virginia scientists wonder how society will come to grips with longer, more complicated lives.
University of Virginia researchers have joined a growing chorus of scientists looking for ways to slow or even reverse the aging process. However, as more people live longer, university scientists wonder how society will come to grips with longer, more complicated lives.
Research published by biologist Eyleen O’Rourke and 10 colleagues across the schools of medicine and the biology department suggested a way to extend healthy life in groups of yeast and roundworms. A process that they said could…
GlyNAC supplementation plays a beneficial role in promoting brain health and cognitive function in aging
As people get older, they aspire to live healthy lives as free as possible from the natural decline of cognitive abilities that occurs with aging. At Baylor College of Medicine, researchers have been studying the biological underpinnings of age-associated cognitive decline and developing nutritional strategies to promote healthy brain aging.
They report today in the journal Antioxidants that supplementing GlyNAC – a combination of glycine and N-acetylcysteine as precursors of the natural antioxidant glutathione – improved or reversed age-associated cognitive decline in old mice and improved multiple associated defects in the aging brain. The findings are consistent with the improvements…