Healthy Living

How Walking Can Build Up the Brain

07/14/2021

[nytimes.com – 2021.07.14] Exercise can freshen and renovate the white matter in our brains, potentially improving our ability to think and remember as we age,

Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?

07/07/2021

[nytimes.com – 2021.07.06] Fitness tracking devices often recommend we take 10,000 steps a day. But the goal of taking 10,000 steps, which many of us

The Health Benefits of Coffee

06/18/2021

[nytimes.com 2021.06.14] Americans sure love their coffee. Even last spring when the pandemic shut down New York, nearly every neighborhood shop that sold takeout coffee

What to know about tick bites

06/10/2021

The Weather Channel recently announced that most of the U.S. will be a “a tick time-bomb” in 2021. The spring months mark the beginning of

We’ll Probably Need Booster Shots for Covid-19. But When? And Which Ones?

06/06/2021

We’ll Probably Need Booster Shots for Covid-19. But When? And Which Ones? Scientists are asking a lot of questions about Covid-19 booster shots, but they

FDA approves obesity drug that helped people cut weight 15%

06/04/2021

[apnews.com – 2021.06.04] Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S. The

Can You Have Alcohol After the Covid Vaccine?

06/04/2021

Moderate drinking is unlikely to impair the immune response to the Covid vaccine, but heavy drinking might. [nytimes.com] After a long year and a lot

Brisk Walking Is Good for the Aging Brain

05/31/2021

[nytimes.com – 2021.05.31] Brisk walking improves brain health and thinking in aging people with memory impairments, according to a new, yearlong study of mild cognitive

Answers to All Your Burning Questions About Sunscreen

05/22/2021

Answers to All Your Burning Questions About Sunscreen [nytimes.com – 2021.05.22] While most experts agree that you should use sunscreen year-round to prevent damage from

This One Type of Food Can Increase Your Colorectal Cancer Risk

05/22/2021

[yahoo.com – 2021.05.22] Each year, approximately 104,270 new cases of colon cancer and 45,230 cases of rectal cancer are diagnosed in the United States. One

Are Plant Milks Good for You?

05/10/2021

[NYTimes.com – 2021.05.10] Gone are the days when the most complicated choice you had to make in the milk section of the dairy aisle was