Day Drinking: Staying Hydrated Throughout The Day
June 19, 2024
Over the last several weeks we’ve spotlighted the concern about excessive sun exposure (causing skin cancer and requiring cautionary behavior) along with the dangers posed by excessive heat. This is all in anticipation of the extreme heat many of us are likely to face this summer (and some of us…
Can’t Take The Heat: Rising Summer Heat Is Intolerable For Older Adults
May 21, 2024
Last summer, we wondered if we were all experiencing the hottest summer on record. Well, as it turns out, we were. New research published in the journal Nature confirmed that in the Northern Hemisphere, the temperatures reached last summer were the highest experienced in 2000 years. Of course, record-keeping on…
Climb Higher: Stair Climbing Meets Your Aerobic And Strength Training Needs
May 8, 2024
We’ve previously cited expert advice about the value of stair climbing as a way to sneak in exercise without really trying. Now comes new research presented at the 2024 European Preventive Cardiology Conference that provides further evidence of the value of stair climbing, as a way to lower your risk…
Heart Throb: How Do You Know If You’re Having A Heart Attack?
March 29, 2023
It may no longer be National Heart Health Month (which takes place every February) but it’s still critical to learn about heart health and your own heart attack risks. Every year, over 800,000 Americans have a heart attack, and for the majority of them, it’s a first heart attack, meaning…
Pressure Points: Why You Should Be Monitoring Your Blood Pressure
October 5, 2022
Instinctively, you likely know that it’s important to keep your blood pressure in check. We’ve certainly addressed the topic previously and it’s one of those essential health markers that almost all of us have experienced during a medical exam (ever feel like the cuff on the blood pressure monitor is…
Movement As Medicine: Take Up Exercise At Any Age
February 23, 2022
It’s easy to make excuses: “I’m too old to start,” or “I can’t risk hurting myself,” or “My legs don’t work very well anymore.” And there may be some truth in these sentiments or at least some sense of logic to which we can all relate. But time and again,…