Want to stay sharp in your senior years? Spanish researchers have some dietary advice: olive oil and nuts. HealthDay reports that researchers in Barcelona studied the memory and thinking skills of 450 older adults, average age 67. The participants were randomly assigned to add a liter (about 33 ounces) of […]

Apparently, more sex does not equal more happiness, at least if you’ve been told to have more sex. How do we know? Because researchers at Carnegie Mellon University experimentally assigned some couples to have more sex than others, and observed both group’s happiness over a three month period. A Carnegie […]

It may be a little harder to breathe, but think how much better you’d look. Research conducted at the University of Navarra in Spain recently studied the health of 9,300 Spanish university graduates who were not overweight or obese at the start of the study. HealthDay reports that the subjects were divided […]

Perhaps you’ve been putting off consultation about what feels like minor tear in your meniscus. That, say researchers at University of Missouri, is a bad idea–because even the small tears can cause big problems if left unrepaired.  A U of Missouri news release reports that researchers at the school’s Mizzou […]

Some people may think they work up an appetite with exercise, but many people actually work down an appetite, according to researchers at Brigham Young University. A BYU news release reports an experiment involving 35 women that appears to prove the point. On the first day, each woman briskly walked […]

Gretchen Reynolds, health writer for the New York Times, answers a question that many fear to ask: “Is golf with a cart exercise?” The short answer is “not much.” If you want exercise, walk the course; that requires about 50 percent more effort that sitting in a cart. The longer […]

Remember the old joke about the penalty for bigamy being two wives? It’s not that funny anymore, thanks to research conducted at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the more wives you have, the worse your heart health is likely to be. […]

You know that expensive standing desk you just persuaded your boss to buy so you could offset the damage of sitting all day? It’s not enough. A new study by researchers at the University of Utah used data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to see if longer durations […]

They’re not exactly happy foods, but salmon, mackerel and walnuts could possibly lift your spirits, according to researchers at Emory University, at least if you suffer from a type of depression that’s caused by inflammation. An Emory news release reports on a randomized trial, in which 155 participants with a major […]

Why do some people get fitter than others who do the same amount of exercise? The short answer, according to the New York Times health writer Gretchen Reynolds, is genes. Reynolds reports on research conducted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology […]