Lifestyle Medicine

Are you a sweet or salty person? When the going gets tough, do you crave a chocolate chip or a potato chip? They both have their pleasures- and perils- for you. Both sugar and salt can lead to significant health problems if they’re not limited in your daily diet. In…

No doubt you know the benefits of eating a healthy diet by now. We’ve sung the praises of the Mediterranean diet on numerous occasions, as a way to help maintain your heart health, tamp down inflammation and even allow you to live a longer, healthier life. But what about your…

No doubt you’ve heard the old adage, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” While that’s not literally true, there’s solid science behind the concept that the food you eat, and the nutrients that make up that food, can have a profound effect on how your body ages and…

While Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and solitary scientists toil away at pushing the boundaries of human mortality, a dose of reality was recently interjected into the ongoing conversations about how long humans can live. A multi-national team of scientists just published findings that conclude that aging continues to be a relatively…

You may as well admit it. Like so many others, chances are your diet during the pandemic was anything but healthy. As a new survey reports from the meetings of the American Society For Nutrition, attention to healthy eating took a nosedive during the pandemic, especially when it comes to…

Certainly, it’s tempting: taking a long hot soak at day’s end feels like just the kind of relaxing activity that many of us need after the challenges we’ve faced this past year or the new anxieties we confront as we head back into the world. We know from previous agebuzz…