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It's been more than a decade since Flint, Michigan's battle to get "the powers that be" to acknowledge lead contamination in their water supply, but we still hear alarms about risks across the nation. A 2023 Environmental Protection Agency report says half of the 9.2 million pipes that contain lead in this country are found in Florida, Illinois,...Read more

"Your guess is as good as mine." (Probably both wrong.) "This is as good as it gets." (You want a lot better.) Doesn't look smart to settle for just "as good as" in many situations, and we suggest that's especially true with exercise.

A new study in Circulation says that being a weekend warrior and getting 150 minutes of exercise on Saturday ...Read more

Odd couples -- from TV's Felix (Tony Randall) and Oscar (Jack Klugman) to the 1968 movie with Jack Lemmon (as Felix) and Walter Matthau (as Oscar) -- are fan favorites. And we have another favorite odd couple to introduce you to: kombucha (a fizzy, fermented tea) and berries, especially blackberries. These two foods are loaded with flavonoids, ...Read more

According to a Cleveland Clinic survey, Gen Z men born between 1997 and 2005 have some 'splaining to do about their health care. While they say healthy living is important, 40% don't have a primary care doctor. And many guys aren't sure if they've ever had their blood pressure, cholesterol or weight checked. Only around a third of them have an ...Read more

iTunes, or should we say "eye-tunes," like "Doctor My Eyes" (Jackson Browne) and "Double Vision" (Foreigner), express how quality of life is affected by what you can and cannot see. That's why it's so alarming to hear that by 2030, over 30% of young kids and 40% of teens will be nearsighted. And globally, in the next 25 years, there will be 740 ...Read more

A stroke hits almost 800,000 folks a year in the U.S. That means someone, somewhere in America, has a stroke every 40 seconds, and every four minutes someone dies from it.

Why is stroke so prevalent -- and can you do anything to reduce your risk? The prevalence, according to research published in The Lancet Neurology, comes from the epidemics ...Read more

The Brits once advised school kids to look to their "As and Bs, and Ps and Qs." And eventually, on both sides of the pond, minding your Ps and Qs came to mean, "watch your behavior." That fits perfectly with new research that finds minding your peas and quinoa -- along with other good-for-you foods -- is exactly how to behave if you want to ...Read more

In the old days, some folks advocated washing your mouth out with soap if you said something they thought was "dirty." While that's been abandoned as a popular tool of discipline, no one should ever give up on the idea of keeping their mouth clean and healthy.

When food gets lodged between teeth, plaque builds up around the gums and you can ...Read more

There are more than 200 types of headaches, but migraine is one of the most life-altering and difficult to treat. This neurologically caused condition may begin with an aura and then move into four to 72 hours of unrelenting pain, nausea and sensitivity to light, as pain-producing, inflammatory substances are released around nerves and blood ...Read more

You know the phrase, "You are what you eat." Well, for a pregnant woman, her newborn becomes what she eats! A study of pregnant baboons shows that when a mom-to-be eats a high-fat, calorie-loaded diet, her offspring ends up with faulty heart development. The child is also likely to be born insulin-resistant, upping the risk for Type 2 diabetes. ...Read more

Remember in 2002 when "results" from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) brought the use of hormone therapy (HT) for menopausal symptoms to a screeching halt? Fortunately, subsequent reanalysis of the data revealed that when hormone replacement was taken within 10 years of the start of menopause symptoms, it was not risky for most women.

Then ...Read more

Every day, you breathe in around 2,000 gallons of air, enough to fill an average swimming pool. And when it is polluted with particulate matter, it increases inflammation throughout your body, increases your risk for respiratory and cardiovascular disease, worsens asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and leads to premature death.

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It's increasingly common for folks ages 60 and older to have more than one cardiometabolic (CM) disease, such as diabetes plus kidney dysfunction and coronary heart disease. In fact, around 34 million folks contend with the complications of multiple CM diseases, which can dramatically reduce their quality of life and longevity.

Now, a new study...Read more

Type 2 diabetes is associated with a 60% increased risk of dementia -- and the younger you develop Type 2 diabetes, the greater the risk. Around 18% of folks who've had diabetes for 10-plus years have dementia, while it's 10% for those who have had it for fewer than five years. In contrast, only about 9% of folks without diabetes up to age 70 ...Read more