Healthy Aging - Live Longer

Can You Actually Slow Down Aging?

Seven foods, habits, and lifestyle choices that can help adults feel, look, and live their best lives.

Type 1 Diabetes: Some Seniors Cope Better Than Others

When it comes to living with type 1 diabetes, many older patients refuse to give in to the challenges of the disease. Learn how they manage their insulin and their lives.

Advanced Prostate Cancer: New Treatment Options

Cutting-edge treatments for those with advanced prostate cancer are helping to slow down the progression of the disease and are doing so with fewer side effects.

10 Easy Ways to Maintain Your Weight

Now that you got it off, keep it off! We'll show you how.

What to Expect At Your Pre-Op Appointment

When it comes to something as serious and important as surgery, it pays to be as well prepared as possible.

The New Age of Older Trainers

A growing number of individuals are getting fit by working out with gray-haired trainers. Learn how you can benefit from the wisdom and experience of these in-shape seniors.

Walking vs. Running: Which Is Better?

If you want to lose weight, running is the clear winner. But there are many benefits of walking, too. Here's the whole scoop.

The Mediterranean Diet and Melanoma

Going Mediterranean may offer protective benefits against skin cancer. That's on top of the other health benefits this easy-to-follow diet serves up.

Why You Need a Support Network to Face Depression

What benefits come from a strong support network, and where can you find one of your own?

Bees for Better Health: What's the Buzz?

For centuries, humans relied on apitherapy, the use of bee products, for health and healing. Today, there is a renewed interest in the benefits of these substances. Learn more.

Young Women Get Breast Cancer, Too

Though most cases of breast cancer occur in women over 55, thousands under the age of 40 are diagnosed each year. Find out if you're at increased risk and what you can do to protect yourself.

How Carcinogens Cause Cancer

Environmental factors account for about two-thirds of all cancer cases, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Here's what you need to know.

Top 5 Diet Mistakes

Have you changed your eating habits to shed some pounds but find the numbers on the scale are going up?

Alzheimer's Disease: Nature or Nurture?

Is Alzheimer's a result of genetics or environment? Scientists say both. While you can't change your genes, you can alter your lifestyle to help reduce your risk of this degenerative brain disorder.

6 Life-Changing Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon

From the harvesting of stem cells without embryos to a pill that delays aging, we've rounded up a few of medicine's amazing advances coming down the pike.

Bone Density Test: Who Needs It and How Often?

Are you at risk of a bone fracture or break? The results of a bone density test will help let you know.

4 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Her Doctor

Health guidelines are forever changing, so it's important to stay up-to-date. Be sure to bring this list of questions to your next doctor's appointment.

Meal Delivery Services for Seniors: What Are the Options?

Food delivery services may help seniors remain in their homes longer. Here's a rundown of the different types of services.

Positive Thinking May Hinder Your Health

You ve got a negative attitude? Good. New research shows it may not be a bad thing for your health.

Why Your Healthy Habits May Not Protect Your Heart

Doing everything right when it comes to heart health? You may still be at risk for cardiovascular disease. Here's why.

5 Great Things About Growing Older

Do people, like fine wine, improve with age? According to some experts, they do. Here are five big perks of getting on in years.

How to Elder-Proof a Home

If you have parents or other older relatives living on their own, it may be time to assess the safety of their home.

How to Quit Smoking: 4 Tips to Live By

Each person has different needs when it comes to smoking cessation. Use these strategies to make it work for you.

Will Coffee Help You Live Longer?

You've heard it's good. You've heard it's bad. But new research reveals that coffee could actually lower your death risk.

Warding Off Skin Cancer

Skin cancer rates are likely to increase in the coming years. Find out how behavioral and dietary changes can reduce your risk.

New Study Shows 50 May Be the New 20

Being old just got younger. However, to achieve that there's something you need to do.

New Food Plate Guidelines: Healthy Eating Made Easy

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled a new icon that it hopes will make choosing nutritious foods easier for Americans.

Daily Aspirin Therapy: Right for Diabetes?

Taking a daily aspirin could be good for your health... or it could be bad for your health. There are advantages for those living with diabetes, but there are also risks.

Full-Body Scans: Too Much of a Good Thing?

What could be the downsides of potentially detecting cancer or another serious disease before it advances to a more-difficult-to-treat stage? Well, 150 times more radiation than a chest x-ray, for one thing.

Want to Live Longer? Eat Whole Grain Fiber

We all know that eating a diet rich in whole grains is good for your heart. Now a new study shows that the kind of fiber found in whole grains may also reduce your risk of dying at an early age from a variety of other causes.