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How Alzheimer's evolves; how to protect your cognitive powers

Almost 7 million Americans age 65 and older have Alzheimer's disease (AD) -- and three-quarters of them are 75-plus. But AD doesn't just pop up once you're getting Medicare. It's a slowly developing disease that new studies show produces distinct changes in your brain and body over many years.

In 2020, researchers announced a blood test to spot...Read more

Get max benefits from exercise -- for both men and women

Do you want to exercise your options for better health? Well, it turns out that women and men have been making quite different choices, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Researchers looked at data on leisure-time physical activity for over 400,000 U.S. adults for 22 years. They found that around a ...Read more

When it's sugar vs. exercise, sugar wins and you lose

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugars in American diets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 63% of adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages once a day or more. And Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health reports that 5% of U.S. adults drink the equivalent of four cans of soda daily. ...Read more

Brain health and blood flow

Recent headlines declared that a study of 670,000 men showed that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra significantly cut the risk of Alzheimer's disease by around 18%. That followed a 2021 study in Nature Aging from Dr. Mike's Cleveland Clinic that found that taking Viagra blocked the attachment of AD-associated amyloid and tau protein to ...Read more

Sleep your way to better athletic performance

Many of you say that you want to exercise more, but in one survey, 56% of adults said that they were often just too tired to do it. That epidemic of weariness isn't surprising. Almost 30% of adults get less than the needed seven hours of sleep nightly. And lack of sleep makes it difficult to exercise well.

A study in Physiology & Behavior found...Read more

Beyond a stuffy nose: Allergies can affect skin, eyes and lungs

Spring allergies to pollen from trees, grasses and weeds can be heard across the country as around 67 million adults and 14 million kids sneeze and sniffle their way through the next several months. But spring allergies can do more than cause congestion. They can also trigger an eye allergy called seasonal allergic conjunctivitis that causes ...Read more

Are you sitting on your dementia risk?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you're inactive if you respond "no" to this question: "During the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?"

A lot of people are really, really inactive and say, ...Read more

Let the sun shine -- for better sleep and to help weight loss

In 1973, when John Denver sang "Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy," he was exactly right but probably didn't know the science behind that feeling. Since then, research has found that getting a good dose of sun on your skin in the early morning and without wearing sunglasses can help you sleep better, increase your ability to shed fat and ...Read more

The two-way freeway to diabetes remission

If you want to resolve your Type 2 diabetes and reduce your risk for cardiovascular and kidney complications a new study in Diabetologia provides a road map.

When researching the effect that diabetes remission has on long-term health outcomes, the scientists found that it reduces the risk of chronic kidney disease by 33% and cardiovascular ...Read more

Soothing shin splints

Mickey Mantle played center field with shin splints, which also sidelined Justin Anderson, who had surgery to repair them when he was playing basketball for the 76ers. But shin splints don't just happen to pro athletes. They come from overexercising, having too hard a footfall, from having flat feet or high arches, wearing worn-out athletic ...Read more

Resistance (exercise) is far from futile

With apologies to Mr. Spock, it turns out that he was wrong about resistance. It's far from futile. A review out of the University of Limerick says that if you're depressed or anxious, resistance exercises effectively ease those feelings. The researchers looked at 12 studies and concluded that resistance exercise provides measurable emotional ...Read more

Avoid ultra-processed foods and their packaging if you're pregnant

It comes as no surprise that pregnant women -- and all the rest of us -- should avoid ultra-processed foods that are loaded with unhealthy fats, excess salt and sugar and a slew of coloring, preservatives, texturizers and other additives that Mother Nature never put into whole, healthy foods. But there's a new twist from researchers at the ...Read more

Study shows that two weight loss surgeries are equally safe

According to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, there were 160,609 gastric sleeve surgeries and 62,097 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedures in 2020. The ASMBS/IFSO Guidelines now say that the procedures are for anyone with a BMI of 35 or more "regardless of presence, absence, or severity of obesity-related conditions" and ...Read more

The ABCs of AMD

In 2019, actress Dame Judi Dench made it known that she had a dry form of macular degeneration in one eye and a wet form in the other. "I just want to go on being mobile ... I'm not going to be beaten by my eyes," she told England's Sunday Post. Today, she has friends help her memorize lines since she can no longer read.

Eleven million people ...Read more

 

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