Search Result For: daily steps

Date: 2025/01/06 - 13:32

How This Married Couple Lost 118 Pounds Together Without Medication

After years of feeling unwell and overweight, Richard and Jill Wendt decided to embark on a weight loss journey together and have dropped roughly 60 pounds each to date.

Date: 2025/01/05 - 13:00

Eating More Protein to Lose Weight? Avoid These 6 Common Mistakes

Adjusting your daily protein intake can help you reach your weight and fitness goals, but health experts say these are six of the most common mistakes people make that can keep you from maximizing those benefits. Here's how to avoid them.

Date: 2025/01/04 - 18:00

Seasonal Depression: 14 Surprising Ways to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues

As holiday festivities fade into the rearview, these lesser-known tips can help you navigate the January blues and seasonal depression.

Date: 2025/01/02 - 14:32

5 Science-Backed Ways to Live a Longer Life

Want to live a longer life? Try these five simple habits in 2025 that can help increase your life span by years and improve the overall quality of your health as you age.

collage of three black and white photos: a plate of food, a gymnast exercising, 4 people around the Christmas table

Date: 2025/01/01 - 11:00

3 ways to boost longevity in 2025

What are three steps we can take in 2025 to improve our longevity? Diet, exercise, and social life emerge as three top factors.

Photo of a wild bird. To the right is a colorized transmission electron micrograph of H5N1 virus particles (purple).

Date: 2025/01/01 - 02:00

NIH officials assess threat of H5N1

Balancing enhanced vigilance and “business as usual.”

Date: 2024/12/30 - 21:30

Behavioral intervention decreases how much pain affects daily activities in people with dialysis-dependent kidney failure

NIH-funded study shows benefits of pain coping skills training in population with limited pain treatment options.

An old analog alarm clock showing twenty past eight as the time

Date: 2024/12/30 - 17:00

Insufficient sleep and high blood pressure may raise risk of brain aging

People with high blood pressure who slept for shorter durations were more likely to show poor cognitive function and increased levels of markers of brain aging and injury, a new study has found.

Former US president Jimmy Carter shakes hands with people at an event

Date: 2024/12/30 - 07:32

Jimmy Carter Dies at Age 100, Leaving Long Legacy in Public Health

Former president Jimmy Carter was the only US president to reach 100 years old. Carter left a long legacy in global health and infectious disease that has changed the world for the better.

A person sleeping on a bed wrapped up in a duvet and hugging a pillow with their eyes closed

Date: 2024/12/29 - 19:31

Why getting more deep sleep may help improve memory

A new study offers an explanation as to how deep sleep — also known as slow wave sleep — helps support the formation of memories in the brain, which could help with preventing dementia.