Health

14 Worst Health Mistakes Even Smart Women Make When was the last time you got 8 hours of sleep or lifted weights at the gym? You're not alone if you can't remember: Even some of the most savvy women didn't get the memo about these health-wrecking habits. Even people who know a lot about staying healthy tend to make these mistakes. Find out if you're among them. Here, experts share the surprising things you're doing wrong -- and how to recover. Read more>>>

• Future of baby boomer health care is ill
  If crisis equals opportunity, there should be a lot of opportunities in geriatrics as baby boomers age. One big problem with that is that as doctors' gigs go, geriatric medicine doesn't pay so well. So as the elderly population grows in the United States, fewer doctors, nurses, social workers and pharmacists are specializing in the problems related to old age. Read more>>>
• Concerned About Your Cholesterol? 10 Ways to Lower LDL and Raise HDL
  Learn how to decrease the "bad" type of cholesterol or increase the "good" kind. Read more>>>
• Triglycerides: 6 Tips for Managing Your Levels
• Whole Foods Diet Cookbook: How to Eat for Health and Taste
  The book is the Whole Foods Diet Cookbook by husband-and-wife team Ivy Ingram Larson and Andrew Larson, and it's full of recipes based on simple, minimally processed foods like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean protein (including some animal protein), and, in moderation, essential fats. Read more>>>
• New Alzheimer's Treatment Could Be on the Horizon
• More Seniors Face Injury and Death from Falling Down
  The National Safety Council (NSC) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have teamed up for a national educational campaign designed to reduce the number of preventable injuries among older Americans. Over the past several years, the frequency of preventable injuries among people age 65 and older – especially product-related injuries and injuries caused by falling down – has increased dramatically. Read more>>>
• Nine Nutrition Essentials for 2009
  Many people are still uncertain about what they should eat and think good nutrition is complicated," says Food Editor Ann Taylor Pittman. "Even Cooking Light readers, who are more well versed in good nutrition than most, come to us with questions about everything from what constitutes a healthful fat to how to work more whole grains into their diet. Read more>>>
  
• Older Americans take risky combo of medications
  Many older adults in the United States are taking a confusing combination of medications, some prescribed by doctors and others picked up over-the-counter or in health food stores. Read more>>>
• The Popular Cold Remedy Vicks VapoRub May Cause Airway Inflammation
  Dr. Rubin then stated that Vicks VapoRub can make some adults feel better without really making them better. “For kids, because it can induce some inflammation, even a little bit, that little bit might be enough to tip over a child to having problems,” he said. Read more>>>
• Experience Simple Joys Of Old Age Without Painful Joints
  The pains in your joints due to years of lifting, flexing, and the overall wear and tear of connective tissues have made things more difficult for you. Now that you belong to the senior citizen age bracket, you have to factor bone or joint problems like arthritis and osteoporosis in everything that you do. Here are a few tips on how to take care and avoid complications on your aging joints and bone structures. Read more>>>
• Many Baby Boomers Incorrectly Believe They Are Protected Against The Risk Of Disability
  Many baby boomers incorrectly believe they have disability income protection, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive® on behalf of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Read more>>>
• Baby Boomers Appear to Be Less Healthy Than Parents
  As the first wave of baby boomers edges toward retirement, a growing body of evidence suggests that they may be the first generation to enter their golden years in worse health than their parents. While not definitive, the data sketch a startlingly different picture than the popular image of health-obsessed workout fanatics who know their antioxidants from their trans fats and look 10 years younger than their age. Read more>>>
• Elders with anemia face increased health risks
  Elderly patients who develop anemia risk serious health problems that increase the odds they will be hospitalized and nearly double the chance they will die, according to findings from a long-term study by a multi-institute research team. Read more>>>
• Avoiding Health Risks in Midlife Can Pay Off in Old Age
  Avoiding health risk factors such as smoking, being overweight, excessive drinking and hypertension in midlife is associated with longer and healthier lives in men, according to a study in the current issue of JAMA. Read more>>>
• Revolution Health Groups
  Groups make it easy to connect with others who share similar health experiences, interests or needs. Create your own group or join one that already exists! Read more>>>
• Give It Up: Top 10 Worst Foods
  Chimichangas. Pork rinds. Cool Whip. These naughty nibbles make you pay with higher cholesterol, rising blood pressure and soaring numbers on the scale. With snacks like these, who needs enemies? Still, none of us are dieting angels all the time. But if you’re going to lapse, at the very least you can cut the worst offenders from your grab bag. Read on to see which foods need to stay on the forbidden list. Plus, substitutes you’ll love… Read more>>>
• Old age in the technology ageNew devices to monitor health and well-being at home a growing new sector
  "We have a worldwide demographic crisis," Dishman said. "We can't solve it with (more) doctors and nurses; there aren't enough of them now. We have to figure out how to leverage people's everyday technologies they're comfortable with to use for cajoling them into the right behaviors for good health." Read more>>>
• Dancing into a Ripe Old Age -- Preventing Osteoporosis, Part 2
  "I believe that calcium supplementation is necessary because the average adult takes in only about 400-550 mg of calcium daily from food (#1 & 7), when the recommended intake should be 1000-1500 mg. (I personally recommend hitting the 1500 mg mark.)" Read more>>>
• Rethinking Old Age
  "Life expectancy has doubled in the past century, but we've changed little in how we deal with those extra 30 years," says Carstensen. Read more>>>
• Review-Can Anyone Live to Ninety and Stay Young Like Andrew Stewart?
  "Many years ago a book by the title 'Live to Ninety and Stay Young' caught my eye on a book shelf. It is by Andrew Stewart of Dorset England and I believe now out of print. For me the book was to be the introduction to a life long study of health and lifestyle living." Read more>>>
• Speaking two languages into old age can stave off dementia, study finds
  (NaturalNews) New Canadian research appearing in the February issue of the journal Neuropsychologia found that knowing two languages or more can postpone the onset of dementia in old age by more than four years. Read more>>>
• Healthy Lifestyles & Tobacco: a Healthy Old Age Equals No Smoking
  Yet, how many times have we heard someone say about older smokers, "what's it matter whether she smokes or not? She's going to die soon anyhow, let her enjoy her habits; it doesn't matter." But, it does matter -- both in terms of life span and quality of life. Read more>>>
• Trouble getting around in old age? Blame your brain
  How well people get around and keep their balance in old age is linked to the severity of changes in their brains, new research suggests. Age-related white matter brain changes, also called leukoaraiosis, are frequently seen in older people and differ in severity, and the new study suggests that they are associated with gait and balance disturbances. Read more>>>
• Alzheimer's risk assessed via gene test
  A South Philadelphia company is getting ready to launch a genetic testing service that will let healthy people determine their risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Read more>>>
• Mid-Life
  "Midlife transition" is a natural stage that happens to many of us at some point (usually at about age 40, give or take 20 years). Read more>>>
• Mid-Life Exercise Keeps Brain Fit
  People who engage in regular exercise during their middle-age years may lower their risk of suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia in later life, according to research published today in The Lancet Neurology. Read more>>>