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By Christina Heiser Gluten-free eating has skyrocketed in popularity over the past decade, fueled by claims that cutting gluten leads to better health. This trend shows no signs of slowing down, with the global market for gluten-free foods projected to be valued at...
By Ali Pattillo In the last 30 years, our collective relationship with supplements has morphed into a full-blown obsession: More than half of adults in the United States today take supplements to “treat” nearly every health issue or psychological woe under the sun....
By Caitlin Gilbert and Gretchen Reynolds Have you ever mixed up the names of your children? Struggled to remember key dates or the year a loved one died? Recent news of mental lapses by President Biden and Donald Trump have sparked a national conversation and social...
By Erin Blakemore If you’ve ever visited a new friend at home, you may have encountered the dilemma of whether to keep your shoes on — or offer to remove them at the entrance. It’s an awkward social ceremony steeped in cultural traditions and personal preferences, not...
By Jancee Dunn What if you knew that you were at the end of your life? Would you have done anything differently? A friend of mine volunteers at a hospice, and she hears one regret over and over from patients: letting relationships wither. They wish that they had made...
By David Nield Obesity is often considered one of the most important factors in the likelihood of early death, but a new review reveals that cardiorespiratory fitness actually has more of an influence on mortality risk and our long-term health. In other words, while...
By Saul Newman The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea that we can live longer, healthier lives by emulating long-lived people. It is a comforting thought, frequently used for...
By Jennifer Kahn Here’s a strange story: One day two summers ago, I woke up because my arms — both of them — hurt. Not the way they do when you’ve slept in a funny position, but as if the tendons in my forearms and hands were moving through mud. What felt like sharp...
By George Ellison Recent autopsies revealed that there may be a sneaky way that microplastics are entering our brains — via our sense of smell, through our noses A team of researchers from Germany and Brazil analyzed autopsies from 25 adults and found that 21 of them...
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...
