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As Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland," once said, "No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise." And, it turns out, no wise person would porpoisely avoid a fish. According to a new study published in the journal Neurology, which tracked more than 1,300 women with an average age of 70, eating baked or broiled, omega-3-rich fish ...Read more

Five years ago, Kate Hudson kicked her sugar addiction. "I realized I was craving it like an addict around 4 p.m. every day ... and it hit me how much sugar we really eat." It's a lot! According to Health and Human Services, 200 years ago, the average American ate 2 pounds of sugar a year. Today, it's almost 152 pounds annually.

However, all ...Read more

The day after actress and writer Carrie Fisher died suddenly of a heart attack, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed away. Her son said the death of Fisher was just too much for his mother to bear, and she died of a broken heart.

Broken heart syndrome, or stress cardiomyopathy, is a real medical condition. Extreme emotional stress and sadness ...Read more

Adult acne isn't anything to be ashamed of, just ask model Chrissy Teigen, actress and writer Mindy Kaling and actress Bella Thorne, all of whom have shared make-up-free pictures of their skin in distress. They are not alone. The International Dermatology Institute says studies indicate that 40% to 55% of folks age 20 to 40 have low grade, ...Read more

When a career-defining horse race comes down to victory by a head -- like it did in the 1978 contest between Alydar and Affirmed in the Belmont Stakes (Affirmed won) -- you know those thoroughbreds' legs were stretched to their limit.

That's what it takes to be in top form -- for people, too! A new study published in the Journal of Physiology ...Read more

The list of athletes who have contended with depression may surprise you: the NFL's Terry Bradshaw, hockey player Dan Carcillo, NBA star Larry Sanders and the list goes on and on. Clearly, being a sports pro doesn't protect you from the mental health challenges of depression.

But, it turns out that probiotics might do just that! A new study ...Read more

In 2018 Americans ate a record-breaking amount of red meat and poultry (much of it fried) -- 222.2 pounds apiece. No wonder a new study published in the journal Hypertension has us once again singing the praises of omega-3-loaded fish, like salmon and sea trout, and advising you to eat lean, skinless poultry (not fried), and plant proteins found...Read more

In the film "Knocked Up," Katherine Heigl plays Alison, an entertainment reporter who finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand. She tries to hide her pregnancy, but it becomes difficult when during an interview she's overwhelmed by nausea and has to run off the set in search of a receptacle. Alison doesn't just have morning sickness. She ...Read more

A poll of 1,012 Americans found that 47% of women say they've gained weight "due to COVID restrictions." Most said they put on one to nine pounds, but 21% says it's more like 10 to 20. For middle-age and older women that compounds health problems that may appear post-menopause.

A new study based on data from more than 10,000 women ages 45 to 85...Read more

When Chris Pratt went from pudgy (300 pounds) Andy Dwyer in TV's "Parks and Recreation" to ripped Peter Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy" he knew he was transforming his career. But what he didn't know was that he was changing his muscles' genetic makeup too.

A study in Cell Reports looked at a group of amateur athletes, 34 to 53, to see what ...Read more

Leonardo da Vinci, Mohandas Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw and the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Norbert Wiener all were vegetarians. Their genius was powered by plants! If you want to keep your brain sharp and avoid dementia, yours should be too. That's the conclusion of researchers who studied the MIND -- or Mediterranean-DASH Intervention ...Read more

Emma Stone uses coconut oil as makeup remover. Mindy Kaling applies it to her hair as a mask. And Mandy Moore loves how it hydrates her skin. All appealing ways to use the oil that's loaded with sat fat and medium-chain fatty acids. But when it comes to eating coconut oil, that's another story. Despite claims that it's good for your heart and ...Read more

When Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Caroline Jones) Addams settled in for a shared hookah session in the 1965 "The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man" episode of their TV show, it seemed exotic and daring. Fifty-five years later, hookah/waterpipe smoking has become all too common -- one 2013 study published in the British Medical Journal ...Read more

Burger King's Bacon King serves up 1,147 calories, 79 grams fat, 30 g saturated fat and 2,153 milligrams sodium. That's more total fat, saturated fat and sodium than you should have in a day -- and you haven't had fries or a soda yet! You can find the same kind of health-destroying excess on the menus at scores of other fast food places, but ...Read more

Kevin "Special K" Daley played with the Harlem Globetrotters, and was the body double for a young Michael Jordan in a 2002 Gatorade commercial; Alan "Special K" Kulwicki was the NASCAR 1986 Rookie of the Year; and pro tennis player Athanasios "Special K" Kokkinakis defeated No. 1-ranked Roger Federer in the second round of the 2018 Miami Open.

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Slow Food is an international organization dedicated to locally grown foods and traditional cooking that was founded in 1986 in Italy and now has 100,000 members in 160 countries. While we applaud the push to offer alternatives to obesity-inducing fast and processed foods, we'd like to advocate another kind of slow food -- slow from plate to ...Read more

In the current remake of the classic Life cereal commercial, Dad brings a box of Life cereal to his daughter Mikey, who's a notoriously picky eater. He's delighted when she likes something that's good for her.

The commercial portrays a scene that is familiar to many parents. In one study of kids 3-11, 13% to 22% of the kids were picky eaters. ...Read more

In "The Godfather," capo Peter Clemenza teaches Don Vito Corleone's youngest son Michael how to make Sunday gravy. "Come here ... You never know, you might have to cook for 20 guys someday," he says. "Start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic, then you throw in some tomatoes, tomato paste, you fry it and make sure it doesn't ...Read more

When it comes to the 100-meter dash, the undisputed champs are Usain Bolt (he did it is 9.58 seconds in 2009) and Florence Griffith-Joyner (10.49 second in 1988). But if you want better heart health, a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine says you should set out on an eight-week-long DASH diet.

Researchers wanted to see what two diets ...Read more

In 2018, Stanford University researchers found that one-third of the almost 1,500 high school, college and professional athletes they screened (with a one-time reading) registered as having high blood pressure -- that is, blood pressure above the official guideline of 130/80.

That was pretty shocking, but it makes us wonder how many more folks,...Read more