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Dietary Habits
Top 10 foods rich in lithium – and why this overlooked mineral matters for your brain
Lithium is best known as a psychiatric treatment, but in tiny amounts it’s naturally present in what we eat and drink. New research suggests this trace element could support...
Exercise
How Many Push Ups should you be able to do? Amount sorted by age
Have you ever heard that completing 40 push-ups a day can significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease? Push-ups are an effective and simple way to measure upper body...
Tips for a Long Life
Diet with regular exercise may cut your death risk after 65
A new study of 6,468 older adults links the combination to a 27 percent lower mortality risk.
Exercise
You don’t need to walk 10,000 steps to benefit from your walk
New research shows that several factors may play a role in determining how walking benefits your health.
Mind
Reading for an hour may cut your Alzheimer’s risk by a third
An hour with a novel or comic may quietly protect your brain for decades.
Diseases
Outbreak is now the worst in US history – over 18,000 infected
A summer of contaminated iceberg lettuce drove US cyclospora cases to an all-time high.
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Vitamins and Supplements
New study: Dietary supplement may help maintain weight loss
Many people find that they regain weight after dieting. Now, a new study points to something that may make it easier to maintain weight loss.
Nutrition
Dietitian recommends: These carbs can help with weight loss
Carbohydrates do not need to be eliminated from the diet if the goal is to reduce body fat.According...
Diseases
A single blood test could catch 50 cancers before symptoms show
The test screens for cancers that have no routine screening today.
Diseases
Your waist measurement may reveal how vulnerable you are to everyday air pollution
A new trial suggests belly fat, not BMI, decides who suffers most from air pollution.
Nutrition
How your weekly egg habit may quietly shape your Alzheimer’s risk after 65
One large US study followed 39,498 adults aged 65 and older, and egg lovers came out ahead.
Diseases
Whether you are the oldest or youngest sibling may shape which diseases you develop
A dataset of 10 million US siblings ties birth order to 150 different diagnoses.
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These celebrities kept their cancer diagnoses out of the public eye
Some celebrities choose to speak openly about cancer, while...
A new blood test for colorectal cancer just got FDA approval – who should get it?
Adults 45 and older at average risk can now get screened for colorectal cancer with a simple blood test.
Are calcium supplements safe for your heart? Here’s what the evidence says
A new study links calcium supplements to higher cardiovascular event recurrence in people with existing heart disease.
NIH finds rare antibodies that could block the red meat allergy triggered by tick bites
NIH scientists have found antibodies that blocked the immune response behind the red meat allergy in the lab.
Latest Articles
7 in 10 cancer patients now survive – a historic high, and the gains are real
US five-year cancer survival has reached 70% for the first time on record.
How often should you really lift weights? The answer may be simpler than you think
The biggest resistance-training review in nearly two decades points to a two-day-a-week floor.
If you take daily aspirin, these foods and supplements may raise your bleeding risk
One common painkiller can quietly cancel a day of heart protection.
What happens to your body in the days after you stop drinking coffee
The clinical timeline for quitting coffee is well-documented, and it isn't gentle.
Zone 2 training: why a slow, steady workout may be the best thing for your heart
The pace where you can still hold a conversation may do more for your heart than your hardest workout.
The overlooked sleep apnea pattern that may raise your heart attack risk by 30%
A large home-monitoring study points to a signal that one-night sleep tests routinely miss.
What’s a good mile run time for your age? Times sorted by age and sex
Widely used age-adjusted benchmarks show what counts as an excellent, good or average mile at every stage of adult life.
How eating sardines every day can affect your heart, brain and bones
A 2023 review says the tiny fish delivers what a capsule cannot.
TikTok’s favorite brain mushroom has real science behind it, and real limits
The mechanism is plausible and small trials look promising, but human evidence remains thin.