One more thing that isn’t great about an evening drink or two: it can really mess up your sleep. The New York Times Ask Well column concedes that glass of wine or two may help us get to sleep, but warns that post-drink sleep is generally less salutary than no-drink […]
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Museum Goers Live Longer
Want to add a few years to your life? Start visiting museums. A recent study by researchers at the University College London found that, even accounting for income, education level and mobility, people who go to museums or attend concerts just once or twice a year had a 14 percent […]
Single Workout Boosts Metabolism For Two Days
Missed a day of exercise? No sweat, literally and figuratively. Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a single workout can activate neurons that influence metabolism for up to two days, and the same effects last longer with training. A UT Southwestern news release reports that the […]
Healthful Diet Keeps Women Young, Men Less So
A healthful diet, meaning a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and low in added sugar, sodium and processed meats, appears to keep women young at the cellular level, according to research conducted at the University of Michigan. A U of Michigan news release reports that researchers at […]
App Helps Make Healthy Food Choices
Wondering which brand of a certain food is the most healthful? There’s an app for that. FoodSwitch, a free mobile app developed by researchers at Northwestern University, asks users to crowdsource information on new and changing foods to update the app’s 268,000-product database.  A Northwestern news release reports that the app, which […]
Sense of Purpose Is Good for Health
Perhaps the most impressive revelation of a new study by researchers at Washington University is the range of healthful activities that are associated with a sense of purpose. A Wash U news release reports that a strong sense of purpose was positively associated with vigorous and moderate activity, vegetable intake, […]
Wealthy Seniors Get Healthier
By the time people reach the age of 65, most know that life is not fair. And so the latest news about the health of people over 65 should surprise few seniors. Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that older Americans report feeling dramatically healthier than they did […]
Smarter People Live Longer
Do higher IQ’s mean higher number of years alive? Researchers at the University of Edinburgh think so. HealthDay reports that when researchers studied data on nearly 66,000 people who were born in 1936, took an IQ test at age 11, and were followed up to age 79 or death, they […]
Hand Washing: Hot Doesn’t Matter
Your mother was wrong. So, apparently, are U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines recommending that plumbing systems at food establishments and restaurants deliver water at 100 degrees Fahrenheit for handwashing. Rutgers University reports that researchers at the school put large amounts of harmless bacteria on the hands of 21 people […]
The Most Healthful Bread? It Depends On Who’s Eating
Which bread is most healthful: artisanal whole wheat sourdough, or processed white? It depends apparently, on who’s eating it. Science Daily reports that researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science divided a group of 20 healthy subjects in two, and gave half an increased amount of processed, packaged white bread for a […]