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The list of harms that come from eating ultra-processed foods (UPF) keeps getting longer. You know such food choices contribute to chronic inflammation, damage your gut biome, harm your immune system and cognition, and make you older than your calendar years. But (a slightly controversial) new piece of research adds one more serious threat to ...Read more

A survey found that 88% of Americans lack sufficient vitamin E, 44% don't get enough calcium, and vitamins D, A and C, as well as magnesium, are also lacking in folks' diets. No wonder that around $71 billion was spent on dietary supplements in the U.S. last year. But you can have too much of a good thing -- and many people who drink vitamin ...Read more

There may be "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" according to Paul Simon, but "40 Ways to Dodge Dementia" (per chapter 13 in my book "The Great Age Reboot") is a lot better for your heart, brain -- and every other part of your body.

Last year, the Lancet Commission identified 12 of these 40 ways that reduce the risk of dementia by up to 45%. (Better ...Read more

Parkinson's disease (PD) affects around 1 million Americans, with 90,000 new cases diagnosed annually. And while you can live for 10 to 30 years with the condition, its impact on quality of life is far-reaching, affecting cognition and mobility, and making you vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia. (It's hard on caregivers,...Read more

The Delta Rhythm Boys sang "Hip bone connected to the thigh bone, thigh bone connected to the knee bone," and on and on. We can, unfortunately, sing the same kind of tune about obesity and cancer.

Obesity now claims more than 100 million adults and almost 15 million kids in this country and is connected to adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, ...Read more

Vitamin D is really a hormone. That's why it helps protect bone strength, increases the calories that go into muscles versus fat, and has an impact on immune, endocrine, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular health. But that's not all. Vitamin D's do-good abilities just keep expanding.

A study in Alzheimer's & Dementia found that those who took ...Read more

You know I'm a coffee lover -- and that solid research backs up the health benefits of both high-test and decaf coffee (as long as they're brewed in an unbleached filter and served without added sugars or fatty creamers). But some new info -- all good -- has emerged recently that's worth giving some time in the spotlight.

First: It's a myth ...Read more

Bob Wills sang, "Texas two-step ... Spin me around/You got to hold me up/When you dip me down." You could also say a "diabetes two-step" can spin you around and dip your risks down. That's the finding of two recent studies.

The first, presented at ENDO 2025, took a look at intermittent energy restriction (IER), time-restricted eating and ...Read more

When Blue Magic sang "To get love you must give love/To keep love you must share love/To know love you must show your loving ways," little did they know that almost 50 years later, researchers from Penn State would come to precisely the same conclusion.

Their study in PlosOne had 52 participants record their feelings about receiving love and ...Read more

It is heartbreaking -- literally -- that more than 39,000 deaths, almost 100,000 non-fatal heart attacks and up to 65,000 strokes could be avoided if everyone who was eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications did so.

A study in the Journal of Internal Medicine says that even though European and U.S. guidelines indicate that 47% to 87% ...Read more

Good glutes mean good health. The muscles in your backside aren't just there to make you look good in your jeans -- they are essential for a healthy spine and back, good balance, and to give you the power you need to walk (10,000 steps a day), climb stairs, lift that bag of groceries, dash to catch a bus or play pickleball! But in this sit-down-...Read more

Joey Chestnut won his 17th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025, downing 70 1/2 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Yikes! A new study in Nature reveals that eating even one hot dog (or other processed meats, like salami, bacon or sausage) a day boosts your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 11% and colon cancer by 7% -- and drinking a 12-ounce ...Read more

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 12% of American adults (almost 40 million folks) have chronic insomnia. And around 28 million use sleep medications every or almost every day. The result of those two habits is far from restful!

Both insomnia and taking sleep meds significantly increase the risk for disabilities such as ...Read more

You or your teenage kids may be into heavy metal, like Black Sabbath, Metallica and Iron Maiden, but no one should be into inhaling heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic, for example). Unfortunately, a study published in the journal Central Science found that those toxins are in the mist of many vapes. In fact, the researchers said ...Read more