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.
Walking for at least 10 or 15 minutes at a time might do more for your health and longevity than spreading your steps out into shorter walks throughout the day, a large-scale study suggests. The study, published in October, looked at the effects of how people gather their steps each day, as well as how many ...
As the candy bowls linger from Halloween and holiday treats are unwrapped, your teeth face a marathon of sugar exposure. “Halloween involves a lot of candy all at once,” Olga Ensz, D.M.D., M.P.H., told Fox News Digital. A clinical associate professor and director of community-based outreach at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Ensz said the ...
Extending the length of your daily walks can benefit your heart, new research suggests. In a study conducted among healthy adults, people who accumulated most of their daily steps in bouts of 15 minutes or longer had significantly lower risks of heart disease and death nearly a decade later than those who got in several ...
Eye injuries related to pickleball have increased at an “alarming rate” as the sport’s popularity has exploded in the United States, a new study finds. More and more people in the U.S. are taking up pickleball as a leisure activity, with recent estimates suggesting that 19.8 million people participated in the sport in 2024, up about 45% ...
Creatine is often associated with hitting the gym and building muscle, but the supplement, typically taken in powder or capsule form, has recently been linked to a variety of other uses and benefits. Singer Ciara told Business Insider last month that she takes creatine not just for muscle boosting, but to support energy levels throughout the day. Actor ...
When it comes to longevity, women are much more likely to outlive men. In the U.S., the gap widened to 5.8 years in 2021. On average, men can expect to live just shy of 76 years, compared to 81 for women. A new study from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, shows ...
Heart attacks, heart failure, and strokes don’t come out of nowhere, a new study concludes. The first time they strike, patients, clinicians, and researchers might think there were no red flags. But a prospective cohort study reports that more than 99% of people who experienced these illnesses had at least one of four risks for cardiovascular ...
Living a healthy lifestyle has been proven to promote longevity, but experts are taking it seven steps further. Longevity experts David Cravit and Larry Wolf, co-founders of the web magazine and newsletter SuperAgingNews.com, recently published “The SuperAging Workbook” – a follow-up to their 2023 book, “SuperAging: Getting Older Without Getting Old.” In the book, the authors map ...
A simple snack swap could deliver big health benefits, new research shows. A clinical trial led by Oregon State University found that eating about two ounces of almonds a day – roughly 45 nuts – was found to lower LDL cholesterol, the “bad” type that clogs arteries and also offer other surprising perks. The study, published in ...
Reaching for a banana could do more than power your morning smoothie. A new international study suggests that eating more potassium-rich foods could help lower the risk of dangerous heart problems. The research, presented at a major heart conference in Madrid last month and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who ...