Tag: healthy aging

A plant-and-fish diet may cut frailty and add healthy years – and you eat more, not less

A USC longevity diet let mice eat more food while losing fat and staying stronger.

Social isolation linked to 29 percent higher mortality risk in a study of 3.4 million adults

A meta-analysis of 70 studies puts a hard number on the health cost of being cut off from other people.

Three midlife risk factors tied to nearly 13 more dementia-free years, NYU study finds

A large new NYU Langone analysis followed people for 26 years to reach the figure.

The 6-minute walking test: See how you compare in your 60s, 70s or 80s

A hallway, a stopwatch and six minutes reveal more about aerobic age than most gym tests.

Most people think they need more protein – 350 studies suggest otherwise

A sweeping new analysis pushes back against the high-protein diet trend and brand-new US guidelines.

How much protein you actually need to build muscle, and why the RDA falls short

Current research points to intakes well above the 0.8 g/kg guideline for muscle and healthy aging.