Lifestyle & Health
Featured news in this section is focused on health and wellness. It includes articles of interest to brokers who want to stay healthy as well as employer programs to help employees stay healthy, state health rankings, fitness trends, etc.
Excess salt intake has long been linked to higher blood pressure, but now a new study has also tied it to quicker cognitive decline in certain groups. In a six-year study of more than 1,200 older adults 60 and older, Australian researchers found that higher baseline dietary sodium intake was associated with faster decline in “episodic recall” in ...
New research has identified a possible link between a person’s outlook on life and their risk of developing dementia. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, examined whether having higher levels of optimism could reduce the chances of cognitive decline over time. Researchers analyzed data from more than 9,000 adults who ...
Weight loss is complex – and goes beyond counting calories, according to experts. Dr. Jason Fung, a kidney specialist and author of the recent book “The Hunger Code,” said lasting weight loss requires a shift in how people understand and respond to hunger. “Most of the time, we focus on eating less or what we’re eating, ...
Mark Cuban, owner of Cost Plus Drugs and a longtime critic of the pharmaceutical industry, is speaking out in support of the congressional Break Up Big Medicine Act. “I don’t think people realize how much health care costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire,” he wrote in a social media post. “It ...
If you’ve ever struggled to fall asleep, your diet could be playing a bigger role than you think. Research suggests that certain nutrients — including tryptophan, magnesium and melatonin — are involved in regulating the body’s sleep-wake cycle, although experts emphasize that overall dietary patterns matter more than any single food. “You may have heard before ...
At the end of a seemingly ubiquitous commercial for telehealth company Ro, a characteristically flabbergasted Charles Barkley speaks for us all when he remarks, “Wait, you’re telling me they have a GLP-1 pill for weight loss now?” They do – and it turns out to be as wildly popular as its injectable predecessors. Just about 10 weeks after it ...
Whether they’re using weekly shots or daily pills, more Americans than ever are turning to anti-obesity drugs to lose weight and boost health. About 1 in 8 U.S. adults say they are taking a GLP-1 drug, according to a recent survey by the health research group KFF. Just since January, more than 600,000 prescriptions have been written ...
Getting a certain amount of sleep could help ward off diabetes, a new study suggests. A team of Chinese researchers studied how sleep duration on weekdays is associated with insulin resistance, a key risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The long-term observational study, held from 2009 to 2023, included about 25,000 participants. The “sweet spot” for low insulin ...
For older adults, a daily multivitamin may slightly slow the aging process, new research suggests. In a randomized study of 958 older adults, those who took a multivitamin daily for two years experienced slowed so-called biological aging by about four months. That is, during the 24 months, they aged only 20 months at a cellular level. Whereas ...
A simple handful of pecans each day could deliver heart-health benefits, a new study found. The research, done by the Illinois Institute of Technology and published in the journal Nutrients, analyzed more than 20 years of studies exploring how pecans affect heart and metabolic health. The study was a review of existing research, not a new ...