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Two-thirds of all U.S. adults consume more saturated fats than their body can handle -- mostly from red meat, processed meats, full-fat dairy, and cheeses. That reduces the body's ability to remove lousy LDL cholesterol from the blood and amps up body-wide inflammation, heart disease, cognition problems, and obesity and/or Type 2 diabetes. ...Read more

Personal trainers can cost $25 to $100-plus an hour, according to the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). That cost can make it difficult for you to access the benefits that come from a commitment to guided, personalized workouts, such as injury prevention, long-term development of strength, balance, and fun, fun, fun.

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Everyone from yours truly and the other experts at 4YOUngevity.com to the American Heart Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization enthusiastically recommends exercise to prevent and control high blood pressure. But half of Americans don't come close to getting the suggested minimum level of ...Read more

I've long advocated for getting an apoB blood test to keep tabs on your heart health. That's because it measures the actual number of cholesterol-carrying particles in your blood that can contribute to plaque buildup -- giving you a much clearer picture of how great your risk for heart attack or stroke is. And that allows your doctor to step up ...Read more

Almost all parents feel stressed about child-rearing, according to a national survey sponsored by The Kids Mental Health Foundation. More than a third of the time, it concerns their kids' behavioral issues, and around one quarter of the time, it's related to children's emotional or mental health.

Well, new research offers you an easy way to ...Read more

Dolph Lundgren's character in "Rocky IV," Ivan Drago, comes across as a guy with more brawn than brains. But Lundgren, who has a master's degree in chemical engineering, is a better example of the benefits of strength-training. You see, it beefs up more than your muscles. It increases your brain power too.

A study followed healthy women ages 65...Read more

We've known for a while that when older folks who are heart-healthy do HIIT (high-intensity interval training), they boost their heart health and control their blood sugar more quickly and effectively than if they did a moderate-intensity workout (which is also good to do, but not as helpful).

But now, a new six-month study of folks in their ...Read more

Some of the greatest thinkers -- from ecologist Barry Commoner to jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes and artist LEOnardo Da Vinci -- have proposed that everything is connected to everything else. And it turns out that nothing provides a more vivid example of that interconnection than the human body.

A lab study in Cell Stem Cell has identified how ...Read more

You may think of palm trees as a symbol of a tropical paradise, but palm oil is far from a thing of beauty when you ingest it. A new study in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism says that saturated-fat-laden palm oil, which is very common in packaged foods, fuels insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes by triggering inflammation, toxic fat ...Read more

You know that being sedentary, smoking, eating highly processed foods, and being socially isolated can cause disability and shorten your life. But do you know that holding a grudge, fear of learning you have a health problem, and thinking only major lifestyle upgrades are helpful can amplify your risk of illness and increase your ActualAge?

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Sorry to disillusion you, but Mr. Spock couldn't have been more wrong: Resistance is not futile. In fact, resistance is lifesaving, according to a study in JACC that found that over an average of 14 years, women who did two hours a week of resistance training had a 20% lower risk of having a first time, potentially life-threatening ...Read more

Around 115 million Americans have prediabetes, which is characterized by chronically elevated glucose levels and increased levels of fat inside your cells. And while both are higher than normal and increase your risk of a raft of conditions, they're not yet in the "you've-got-diabetes" zone.

If that's you, you want to reverse your prediabetes, ...Read more

Almost 50% of U.S. adults have high blood pressure (HBP), and, in 2023, they spent more than $430 million on home blood pressure (BP) monitors. But many folks are wasting their money, because nearly 33% of them don't use the monitors, and an additional 14% only use them occasionally.

If that's you, you're also endangering your health. Regularly...Read more