News tagged with 'Living Well'

America On the Move Week is part of Activate America – the YMCA’s response to the nation’s growing health crisis. Activate America engages communities nationwide to provide better opportunities for people of all ages in their pursuit of health and well-being.

General Mills claims eating Cheerios reduces cholesterol, lowers the risk of heart disease, and cancer.  The FDA says General Mills better take out a new drug application or reword some of the health claims on the box of Cheerios. 

New research links low levels of vitamin D to high blood pressure and high blood sugar in teenagers, which can lead to early health problems. The "sunshine" vitamin is needed to keep bones strong, but recent research has linked vitamin D to other possible health benefits in both children and adults.

When it comes to losing weight, one diet is no better than the next. It doesn't matter where your calories come from, as long as you're eating less, suggests a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Imagine cutting your cancer risk by one third through small lifestyle changes? That is possible concludes a joint American British study on cancer prevention. Preventing cancer is preferable to treating it, the nonprofit global report reminds us.

This published study finds once again that a Mediterranean-style diet that emphasizes unprocessed foods, heavy with fish, olive oil, and vegetables, may help keep Alzheimer’s  disease and mild cognitive impairment or borderline dementia at bay.

Dialysis patients who live above sea level do better than their lowland counterparts, according to a published study which finds those living at 4,000 feet above sea level had an upwards of 15 percent lower mortality rate. Higher elevations also deliver increased performance by athletes.

It's hard to believe, but intense and very brief exercise of about three minute duration, may be all that is needed to jump-start diabetic insulin levels and improve their health picture. 

Immunity to colds is helped by sleep. But this study, out of Carnegie Mellon University, shows for the first time that the quality of undisturbed sleep is just as important a component to improving immunity to the common cold.

"Eat This and Not That," is a new book that teaches grocery store shoppers to make better choices by reading labels. Slight alterntions to the typical American diet with foods available in the grocery store, can translate to weight loss, the authors say. 

Chicago tops the list of ten most stressful cities as compiled by Forbes. Criteria such as population density, air quality and unemployment were considered among the nation's top 40 metropolitan areas.

Consuming huge amounts of sugar after starvation caused rats to display the same addictive behaviors as you'd see with heroin or cocaine. That may explain why some people crave sugar and cannot stop, even when they know they should.

Whether it's the cost of traditional health care, or the appeal of taking charge of your own health, Americans are increasingly choosing alternative and complementary (CAM) medicine for pain and colds.       

Americans are falling short of meeting recommended exercise minimums, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More efforts need to be done to educate Americans about the new guidelines and the health benefits of exercise

Happiness a collective phenomenon.  That is the conclusion of a study of more than 4,700 people, followed over 20 years, all part of the Framingham Heart Study social network. This large study finds that happiness can ripple through a cluster of people who may not even know each other and can spread through your social circle. Unhappiness does not permeate as well.