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By Alex Nabaum The words “retirement community” summon up images of easy chairs, overcooked food and endless daytime TV. Latitude Margaritaville, a community being built near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, quickly disabuses these. “There was a toga party this...
By Erik Vance At its core, the secret to a healthy fitness routine is simple: Find ways to move. There are limitless options these days, but the best exercise is whatever you enjoy enough to keep doing it. On the Well desk, we are always looking for new and...
By Nicola Guess The way we eat desperately needs to change. Experts estimate diet is a bigger contributor globally to early death than smoking. In America, nearly half the adult population has Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. If you have been following recent...
By Sandee LaMotte In an international survey of dieticians conducted by U.S. News & World Report, the Mediterranean once again took top honors Tied for second was the DASH diet, which stands for dietary approaches to stop hypertension, and the Flexitarian diet,...
By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering what you should know about bird flu — as well as South Korea, Bangladesh and California. Birds, cows, people By now, you’ve probably seen some alarming headlines about bird flu, and you may be wondering how worried you...
Imagine taking a break from the norm with a dental vacation in Cuenca, Ecuador, where you can get top-notch dental care while enjoying a unique travel adventure. By choosing the Find Health in Ecuador Dental Clinic, you’ll have the chance to get excellent implant...
By Molly Young Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including exercise and diet, can be crucial to your quality of life. However, a woman who lived beyond 90 suggested that her food and habit choices didn’t negatively impact her all that much. Science says after the first...
By Andee Tagle and Malaka Gharib With all the cooking, feasting and leftover-keeping that comes with the holidays, it can be hard to know how to keep food safe. Sometimes we just do what our families did growing up (like storing rice in the rice cooker all day)....
Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield has sensationally claimed Covid-19 may have been born in a laboratory in North Carolina – not Wuhan, China. In an unlikely turnaround, Redfield who had previously backed the Wuhan "lab leak" theory, says...
By Mark Travers How often do you lay in bed scrolling on your phone with your partner only inches away from you, doing the very same thing? Absorbed by whatever’s happening on your separate screens, you may not even realize that you’ve spent hours next to one another...
By Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed staff A study by the Research Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention institute in Pozzilli [Italy], in collaboration with the University of Casamassima, shows that high consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with...
By Stephanie Reiss About a year ago, I lost my taste for coffee and started drinking tea. So, I was intrigued when I learned about a particular leaf called ilex guayusa, which is brewed into a potent tea. This tea doesn’t come from India, China, or Japan. Instead, it...
By Consumer Reports Just about everyone experiences digestive problems on occasion. They’re some of the most common complaints in doctors’ offices. But for more than 10 million people, gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea or heartburn are regular occurrences. When...
By Sandee LaMotte Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets believes it’s time for fans of psilocybin mushrooms to leave...
By Jamie Friedlander Serrano Bill Gates is known for his solitary “think weeks.” The painter Georgia O’Keeffe often spent days alone walking and working at her ranch in New Mexico. And the poet Emily Dickinson wrote often about the revelations that can come from time...
By Allie Yang We often think of smoking and drinking when it comes to addiction — but there’s another compulsion affecting as many as 14 percent of adults and even 12 percent of kids: food addiction. Indulgent dishes enticing us with fat and sugar can feel impossible...
By Hicks Wogan When you choose a hobby, do you consider whether it’s not only fun, but also good for you? If not, science has you covered: In recent years, countless studies have shown that a wide range of hobbies offer physical and mental health benefits to...
By Lindsey Bever The question: Is it true that some people dream in color and others in black and white? The science: It was once believed that most people dreamed mostly in black and white, and color dreaming was thought to be associated with psychological issues....
By Eric Vance Ahi steak. Akami sashimi. Albacore on sourdough. Whether you smoked yellowfin on the grill or spread skipjack on a sandwich, chances are you’ve had tuna recently. On average, Americans eat around two pounds of the fish per year, more than any other...
By Lachlan Brown We all want to be liked, especially as we age. But often, it’s those sneaky little habits we’ve picked up over the years that can become barriers to likability. The difference between being liked and being overlooked can sometimes come down to the...
