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Posted 05.22.2013
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SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com We polled our Facebook friends to find the secrets to longevity -- and found some surprising answers! Keys to Long...
By Christie Wilcox for YouBeauty.com Take a moment and think about where you will be in five years. What will change between now and then? What wil...
By Amanda Schupak An extraordinary 80-year study has led to some unexpected discoveries about long life. In 1921, a Stanford University psyc...
Long before the age of gene therapy and miracle medical treatments, the secrets of long life were being gathered and revealed in a unique study of 1,5...
You may not need to cut calories or invest in a sex robot to add years to your life -- simply eating more of the healthy foods that are already in you...
By Gretchen Reynolds New scientific research offers surprising ways to shower yourself with tranquility, creativity, longevity and more. A...
Let's say you spend five minutes, once a week, to match your socks. No big loss, right? Meanwhile, I dump my socks into a drawer without another moment's thought.
The Olympics generate a lot of buzz about gold medals and perfect 10s. But in the Olympics of life, you only need seven for the gold.
The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78.5 years -- and by now we all know that certain healthy behaviors might help to extend that figure, wheth...
Working out isn't only about how you'll look in that bikini. Getting -- and staying -- in shape boosts heart health, helps your skin and improves your...
Young or old, you can promote lasting health by incorporating yoga and the Mediterranean diet into your lifestyle. Here are two ways to live a longer, healthier life.
By Miriam Weiner for U.S. News Health In the Broadway musical "Fame", Carmen sings about wanting to live forever. Unfortunately, that's not possibl...
By Deborah Kotz for U.S. News Health One of the biggest factors that determines how well you age is not your genes but how well you live. Not convi...
by guest blogger Danny Penman, PhD, award-winning writer Earlier this summer, I attended a conference on "life extension" at Cambridge University in ...
These foods were selected for their general health, low toxicity and nutritional value (in terms of protein, fats, carbohydrates, antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins and minerals).
Rome wasn't built in a day, so for year 2011, let's start by making one small step at a time that will eventually lead to monumental results!
Slate and the New America Foundation recently sponsored a conference on Aging. At the conference Professor S. Jay Olshansky spoke about his proposal,...
Dr. Nir Barzilai is trying to uncover the genes that promote a long life -- discoveries that he hopes will lead to drugs to prevent age-related diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Is a long, healthy life a roll of the genetic dice? Genes play a part, but many studies suggests that we can extend lifespan by our choices.
People who go to school lead healthier, longer lives. That connection is well documented and unsurprising. But as obvious as this link is to us, the fact is we don't really know why that's the case.
We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language.
A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old ag...
There are plenty of creams, lotions and potions on the market that help you look younger, but today, Dr. Oz is going to show how some people are actua...
In the 20th century, the average life expectancy shot up 30 years--the greatest gain in 5,000 years of human history. And Centenarians--folks who make...
