Ask the doctors: How much fruit can I eat and stay within the sugar guidelines?
I just read that we shouldn?t be getting more than 10% of our calories from sugar. Should I cut back on fruit?
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Ask the doctor: When should I begin exercising?
I?m a 23-year-old man who reads my mother?s copy of the Harvard Health Letter. You often talk about how regular exercise improves health, particularly heart health. Since heart disease doesn?t usually start until a man is in his 60s, at what age should I get serious about exercise?
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Happiness may not extend life
A report from the Million Woman Study indicates that risk of dying over a 10-year period is essentially the same for happy and unhappy women.
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Preserve your muscle mass
While most men will lose about 30% of their muscle mass during their lifetime, it is possible to rebuild and maintain muscle with a progressive resistance training program and a higher-protein diet.
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How music can help you heal
Music therapy has been demonstrated to calm anxiety, ease pain, facilitate rehabilitation, and improve quality of life for people with dementia.
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Antidote for blood thinner’s side effect
The FDA has approved idarucizumab (Praxbind), which may be able to reverse the effects of dabigatran (Pradaxa), a newer type of blood thinner that’s had a rare side effect of uncontrolled bleeding during surgery or accidents.
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Yoga for everyone
Chair yoga can help reduce heart rate, blood pressure, and anxiety, and it can boost strength, flexibility, and balance.
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The health benefits and risks of pet ownership
In the appropriate circumstances, dogs and cats make wonderful companions for older adults.
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Don’t ignore signs of sudden cardiac arrest
It appears that warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest are common and often ignored.
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Blood pressure: How low should you go?
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that lowering blood pressure from the standard 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) to around 120/80 may reap greater cardiovascular health benefits.
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