Exercise and Bone Health: "It's hugely important," says this expert
We talked on the phone with Bess Dawson-Hughes, the director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and a professor of...
View ArticleBenefits of Staying Active: Exercise Keeps Older Adults Mobile
A combination of aerobic, resistance, and flexibility training can keep older people on their feet, according to the longest and largest trial to address the question. Researchers randomly assigned...
View ArticleExercise for Joint Pain: Here's What the Experts Recommend
“If you have osteoarthritis, exercise is one of the most effective treatments we know,” says David Felson, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. It’s not...
View ArticleExercise and Brain Health: Five Ways Exercise Can Help
In 1999, Arthur Kramer, then at the University of Illinois, reported that healthy sedentary people aged 60 to 75 did better on tests requiring executive function if they were assigned to six months of...
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Beware of these dietary supplement advertising tricks (Part 1)
Trick #1: Phony testimonials Here’s “Amy,” gushing about the “secret anti-aging product” Garcinia cambogia on some fake news site. Amy shows up on hundreds of other websites, admitting that she was...
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A Healthy Mediterranean Diet
The new PREDIMED (Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea) study was big news. Spanish researchers reported that high-risk people on either of two “Mediterranean” diets had a remarkable 30 percent lower...
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Million Mile Month
Can individuals and communities in the United States complete one million miles of physical activity during the month of April? That’s the goal of the Million Mile Month, a national coalition of...
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Do Intermittent Fasting Benefits Include Living Longer?
“We’ve known for a long time that if you reduce the calorie intake of rats or mice, they live much longer,” says Mark Mattson, chief of the laboratory of neurosciences at the National Institute on...
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Is Canola Oil Healthy?
“Poisonous.” “Toxic.” “Avoid like the plague.” Is canola oil healthy? For some reason, people love to hate it. Really hate it. That’s partly because the canola plant is derived from rapeseed, which...
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Nutrition Action Healthletter
Get Life-Saving Information on Diet and Nutrition Right Now! Dear Friend, You’ve always wanted life-saving information about the foods you eat. You should know, for example, that Marie Callender’s...
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