Category: Healthy Life

April 13, 2023 – US life expectancy has declined to 76.4 years, the shortest it’s been in nearly two decades, according to December data from the CDC. Two experts from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health—Dean Michelle Williams and Ariadne Labs’ Asaf Bitton—discussed the problem on WP...

For immediate release: February 6, 2023

Boston, MA – Women who followed most aspects of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy body weight, not smoking, regular exercise, adequate sleep, high quality diet, and moderate alcohol consumption, had about half the risk of long COVID compared with women without any healthy lifestyle...

14 May 2019 – People can reduce their risk of dementia by getting regular exercise, not smoking, avoiding harmful use of alcohol, controlling their weight, eating a healthy diet, and maintaining healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization...

Not smoking, drinking moderately, and maintaining a healthy weight can add years of disability-free life, researchers have found.

Their analysis used 1998 to 2012 data from the National Health and Retirement Study of nearly 15,000 Americans aged 50 to 89 years.

The healthier cohort had never smoked cigarettes, were not...

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