Heart Health

We’ve certainly spent a lot of time covering the benefits to your brain and body of eating a healthy diet. So while we hope you’ve taken steps to rethink your meals, it’s probably also time to consider what you’re eating between meals. Generally speaking, there’s nothing objectively wrong with eating…

Most of us likely grew up with aspirin as a regularly used medication in our households. Whether the good old-fashioned Bayer brand or one of the other commercially available aspirin-based brands like “Bufferin” or “Anacin,” most of us can remember our parents taking or recommending a tablet for headache or…

We know the evidence has gone back and forth about the benefits and harms that can come from alcohol consumption. While there’s no data to support the value of heavy drinking, there are some studies that suggest moderate amounts of alcohol may have cardiac or brain benefits. Current alcohol intake…

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…

You probably don’t need a reminder that heart disease is the #1 cause of death for both men and women in the United States. For women, in particular, the risk of heart attack and stroke is real, yet misunderstood and often undertreated. Experts around the world recognize that heart disease…

For some of us, this past year has given us a pass on visiting one of our more dreaded health care providers: the dentist. But it turns out that, like other aspects of your health and well-being, the attention paid to your oral care rewards you not only with fewer…