Longevity

We’ve said it before but it’s worth repeating: Where you live may have a direct impact on your health and longevity. Evidence continues to mount about the differences in policies, protocols, and environment as you go from one state to another and it quickly becomes apparent that your choice of…

How long we live, and how healthy we stay as we age, is usually attributed to a multitude of factors, including our genes, lifestyle, socioeconomic factors, and even just good fortune. But a new research study reported online in Nature Communications has thrown another factor into the mix: It appears…

No doubt about it- despite everything going on in the world, Americans continue to push the boundaries of longevity and extended life spans. While there were about 82,000 centenarians (those age 100 and above) in the US in 2016, estimates are that by 2060, there will be close to 600,000…

The current climate has caused many of us to reconsider our relationship with food: what we eat, how we prepare it, and how we secure it, among other facets. Given the closure of restaurants, the risks of entering grocery stores, and the limitations of available options, we’ve had to really…

New year, new diet? For many, this is the time of year to give some thought to previous bad habits and contemplate some changes for healthier living. Fortunately, it’s also the time that publications come out with their rankings of the various popular diets, to help spur on your strategizing….

For millennia, people have been conditioned to accept that growing older and eventually dying are inherent aspects of the human condition. That seems to be the one universal law of nature – or is it? In recent years, scientists have reconsidered the inevitability of the aging process, and we’re now…