New research in older adults finds that keeping regular hours for waking, eating, and seeing people is linked to lower body weight, less pain, and fewer depressive symptoms. And it…
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The case for the pattern with the strongest human evidence and the fewest trade-offs Almost every person newly diagnosed with cancer asks some version of the same question: what should…
New aging research suggests we may be eating too much protein, and that where it comes from matters more than we thought Protein is having a moment. It’s in the…
In 2013, five researchers published a paper in Cell that did for aging what a good filing system does for a chaotic desk. Aging research had accumulated decades of findings…
A randomized trial tested the same activity before a meal, immediately after it, and thirty minutes later. Only one of those timings affected blood sugar. We’ve all heard the advice:…
New Research Suggests That Practicing Virtues Like Compassion, Patience, and Self-Control May Boost Your Well-Being For thousands of years, philosophers have debated a fundamental question about human nature: Does being…
Why Age is Cancer’s Strongest Risk Factor More than 60% of cancers occur in people aged 60 and over. It is one of the most consistent findings in oncology, and…
New research from Rutgers suggests that narrowing your daily eating window improves memory and problem-solving in older women, and not because of the weight they lost. If you’ve heard of…
The hours after a meal are not quiet hours Most of us think a meal ends when we put down the fork. Your body sees it differently. For roughly four…
Food culture deserves reverence; it does not deserve immunity There is a sentence that ends a nutrition conversation faster than any study can begin: this is how we have always…