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The New York Jets' Joe Namath addressed his alcohol use disorder (AUD) in his autobiography, saying life after professional football left him feeling unmoored. Green Bay's Brett Favre, sober since 1998, also struggled mightily with it (and drug dependency). Their stories of battling excessive alcohol consumption are repeated by millions of ...Read more

Lionel Hollins, 69, retired assistant coach for the Houston Rockets and former All-Star point guard with 10 years in the NBA was diagnosed with high blood pressure at age 27. He managed to control it so it didn't interfere with his career or health. That's not something that comes easily to many of the 116 million adults in the U.S. with the ...Read more

Oprah struggled with a diagnosis of prediabetes and lost and gained weight, off and on, until she revamped her eating habits (fewer, healthier carbs) and established more realistic goals: "Gone for me are the days of wanting to be thin to fit into anything other than my best body and best life."

Now, a new study reveals how the 96 million ...Read more

Chronic pain from sickle cell anemia, cancer and during end-stage illnesses often requires strong, potentially addictive pain medication -- and that was something many patients couldn't obtain in the aftermath of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2016 opioid guidelines for chronic pain. There have been many stories about ...Read more

Martha Graham, who danced and taught for more than 70 years, knew a thing or two about vitality: "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and ... this expression is unique."

Unfortunately, a survey of 10,000 U.S. adults reveals that only 18% have "high vitality." High vitality ...Read more

What do John Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Bono and Stephen King have in common? They all have contended with vision problems: Goodman with cataracts; Fitzgerald with diabetic retinopathy; Bono with glaucoma; and Stephen King with age-related macular degeneration.

These four conditions are the most common causes of serious vision problems in older ...Read more

The Phoenix Suns' small forward Devin Booker scored 34 points in 35 minutes of playing time in October to lead his NBA team to a 134-105 victory against the Golden State Warriors. He's got game -- both on the court and off. Seems Devin is also a video gamer. In fact, he is so good at "NBA 2K" that in 2020, he won the inaugural Players Tournament...Read more

The humorist/philosopher Will Rogers once said, "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Smart guy. Unfortunately, 80% of Americans have sedentary jobs and between commuting, work and watching TV, many people just sit there for 10 to 15 hours a day -- upping their risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, ...Read more

The Green Lantern, aka Hal Jordan (played by Ryan Reynolds), is a force for good in the universe, dimming the pain inflicted by Parallax. Turns out that green is a good color choice for a superhero dedicated to easing hurt -- at least that's what researchers at Duke University Medical Center found in a preliminary study.

Presented at this year'...Read more

When 62-year-old radio host Phil Valentine died in August 2021 from COVID-19, the vaccine skeptic's brother said Phil would, if he could, say "Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about politics. Look at the dadgum data."

Unfortunately, many older folks aren't paying attention to the news that the vaccine and boosters offer powerful protection from...Read more

There are many ways to look at taking a shot. The rapper Eminem asks: "If you had one shot ... to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?" The golfer Johnny Miller says: "Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good." There's a bit of wisdom in those perspectives that you can ...Read more

Randy Jackson, Rosie O'Donnell, Carnie Wilson, Al Roker, Sharon Osborne, Roseanne Barr, and Anne Rice have all had successful bypass surgery. They had their procedures when decades-old National Institutes of Health guidelines were what determined who could be a candidate for the life-changing procedure. Those recommendations stated that the ...Read more

The actress Kim Cattrall says her battles with insomnia affect her "ability to think clearly. I can't grasp, hold on, to ideas, thoughts, even tasks." But your internal body clocks affect more than your mental powers. If you contend with insomnia, chronic stress, frequent jet lag, nighttime snacking, or an irregular work schedule you're ...Read more

Almost 60 % of Americans regularly eat cookies and chips for snacks. In fact, they eat something like 2 billion cookies -- 300 per person -- and around 1.85 billion pounds of potato chips, or about 6.6 pounds per person, every year. Yikes! No wonder we have a diabetes and obesity epidemic. So, let me introduce you to a really tasty snack that ...Read more

Actor Richard Roundtree, who starred as Shaft in the 1971 movie, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 51. A double mastectomy and chemo saved his life. Peter Criss, the KISS drummer, was 62 when he was diagnosed in 2014. "You don't need boobs to get breast cancer," is his message to other guys. And 84-year-old former NFL star Ernie Green was...Read more

At age 76, Sylvester Stallone advocates for making "exercise your hobby instead of your enemy." Then, "it will always make you better than you were before." I hope when you're his age you have the same get-up-and-go. There's no reason not to, now that a study in JAMA Network Open explains a good way to accomplish that goal -- build your muscle ...Read more

Between 50% and 70% of pregnant women experience back pain related to their pregnancy, and for 10% of them, it's so severe that they cannot continue working or enjoying daily activities. Easing the discomfort can be difficult. The Food and Drug Administration says that NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like aspirin, ibuprofen, ...Read more

"I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table," says actress/talk show host Drew Barrymore. "So whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe."

Mealtimes shared with family and friends really do improve your emotional outlook and reduce your tension ...Read more

The greatest sprinters of all time are Usain Bolt (100 meters: 9.58 seconds in Berlin, 2009) and Carl Lewis (100 meters: 9.86 in Tokyo, 1991).

The SPRINT trial has some impressive numbers, too. It shows that if you intensively lower your blood pressure to 120/80 or below, you substantially reduce your risk for dementia, heart attack and stroke,...Read more

More than 131 million U.S. adults take at least one prescription medication regularly -- the average person takes four! So it's not surprising that more than 1.3 million adverse drug reactions send Americans to the emergency room each year.

Such negative reactions to medications often happen when two or more drugs are taken, causing one ...Read more