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The 2021 women's U.S. rowing teams include powerhouses Charlotte Buck, Kendall Chase and Olivia Coffee and single sculler Kara Kohler. If they have a stroke of good luck, they will do better on the world stage than U.S. rowers did in Tokyo. There, for the first time ever, not a single U.S. crew (male or female) who participated in the Olympic ...Read more

This year's top draft pick, Trevor Lawrence, got a five-year contract and signing bonus of $42.2 million. Clearly, there's a huge payoff with that multiyear deal.

But, frankly, we don't think it's nearly as life-changing as taking a good multivitamin can be. That's a multideal with no risk of a concussion -- and a solid promise of better health...Read more

From 1951 to 1968, Mickey Mantle sustained 14 serious injuries on the ballfield and still managed to win three MVPs, a Triple Crown and seven World Series. Fortunately, the Yankees could coordinate the care Mantle got with all the various doctors who treated his head-to-toe traumas.

For the average person today, getting all your doctors to talk...Read more

While she's training, tennis phenom Serena Williams refuses to eat red meat -- opting to use ground turkey in her taco treats. "I can't live without ground turkey," she's declared. Seems Serena knows to avoid excess inflammatory, artery-clogging saturated fats. But is she -- and are you -- aware of saturated fat that shows up in unexpected ...Read more

Chronic stress makes for complex plot lines and great acting. Take Jack Lemmon in 1973's "Save the Tiger" or Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006). Their stress-plagued lives and resulting meltdowns made cinematic history. But off the screen, that kind of relentless tension makes trouble, not careers.

It's long been known that chronic...Read more

In "Heartburn," Meryl Streep (Rachel) and Jack Nicholson (Mark) eat spaghetti carbonara in bed -- and they're headed for a breakup. In "Bridget Jones's Diary," Renee Zellweger (Bridget) snuggles under the covers for a rendezvous with excessive amounts of comfort food. Neither is a formula for a good night's sleep. But there are foods that can ...Read more

During Thanksgiving week, Americans spend around $90 million on pies! And most folks eat around 30 grams of added sugar (far beyond what you should have in a day) in their Thanksgiving dinner -- before they even get to dessert!

But you don't have to give up your favorite Turkey Day ingredients to eat healthfully. The trick is to prepare them so...Read more

Psychologist and writer Timothy Leary almost got it right. Turn on (the stove); tune in (to amino acids); and drop out (of the 20% to 25% of folks 65 and older who have mild cognitive impairment and the 10% with outright dementia). A new lab study in Science Advances has identified the specific essential amino acids that protect the brain from ...Read more

When Massimo Stano took the gold medal in race walking at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, he flat-footed his way across 12.4 miles in 81 minutes and 0.05 seconds -- that's walking an astounding 10 mph.

That's how fast you want to walk away from fast foods. (On your 10,000 steps a day, you probably hit 3-plus miles per hour.) A new study in the ...Read more

Do you try to negotiate with your kids to get them to eat their vegetables? One Brussels sprout, 10 more minutes of TV time? (Don't let it go over one hour for toddlers, and keep it balanced with physical activity for older kids.) Or do you promise dessert if they eat their salad? That's hit or miss, at best, and then you have to fret about ...Read more

"Feeling like a shockwave, shockwave, shockwave, shockwave ... Ooh yeah, babe, get 'em with the shockwave." Marshmello, AKA Christopher Comstock, sings that plaintive tune about a broken heart, but it just as well could be the over-the-top marketing slogan of a facility that offers "restorative therapy" for erectile dysfunction.

There's a ...Read more

What's soft, slightly sweet, old-fashioned-sounding and brimming with goodness? Well, yes, that could describe your grandmother. But it also describes winter's favorite root vegetables: sweet potatoes, rutabagas, turnips and beets. They give you unconditional love, too, because they're loaded with heart-happy nutrition, whether you roast or ...Read more

During the Victorian Era (1837-1901), it was common to say that a woman was having vapors -- a condescending and wildly inaccurate way of attributing everything from menstrual cramps to depression to the "Hysterick Fits" that women were said to suffer.

We've come a long way from those days. But vapers -- that's people who vape -- are still ...Read more

Not all substitutions are wise. Recently, when Major League Soccer's D.C. United was trailing Atlanta United 2-0, head coach Ben Olsen brought in Russell Canouse as a sub for Moses Nyeman. Problem was, Canuose wasn't on the game's player roster, making him an illegal substitution. He was banished to the locker room. That substitution was as ...Read more

Khloe Kardashian says she changes her bedsheets every two days -- making her downright un-American. A survey of 1,000 of folks revealed that, on average, people change their sheets every 24 days -- single guys only do it every 37 days, while married couples make the switch every 20.

Turns out, it's a good idea to be more Khloe than casual if ...Read more

One day, as Abraham Lincoln was walking down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying, a passerby asked, "What's the matter with your boys?" Lincoln replied: "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world. I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."

Fortunately, there are plenty of nuts to go around these days (and that's not ...Read more

In 1959, funnyman Jack Benny was appointed Chief Justice of the "Ancient and Independent Province of Beverly Hills." He told the audience, "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

No one deserves arthritis, but it's a major cause of disability in the U.S., affecting more than 58 million people ages 18 ...Read more

In the 2011 movie "Bridesmaids," when the wedding party, played by Kristin Wiig, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey, is hit with food poisoning while shopping for their dresses, McCarthy screams "What did we eat?"

If you find yourself wondering that, too -- the answer may be "highly processed foods." According ...Read more

Sylvester Stallone, age 75, works out relentlessly on weight machines, using hand weights and his own body weight. Serena Williams, 40, does an intense lineup of arm, glute and core/leg exercises, designed to increase her metabolism and endurance. Good for them. But, it turns out, such over-the-top routines aren't necessary to reap one of the ...Read more

The world's largest waist, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was 119 inches -- the circumference of a 1,400-pound man named Walter Hudson. The average adult male American weighs almost 198 pounds, is just over 5 feet, 9 inches and has a 40.2-inch waist. The average American woman's waist size is 38.7 inches -- and she's not quite ...Read more