There’s truth to the adage that you’re only as old as you feel. “Physical well-being and subjective well-being are two sides of the same coin,” says Howard Friedman, author of The Longevity Project, a research-based look at who lives the longest and why.
DetailsScientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks.
DetailsHere’s the good news: Heart disease and its consequences are largely preventable. The bad news is that nearly one million Americans will suffer a heart attack this year.
DetailsSongs from our past have amazing power to take us back years or decades. That is demonstrated dramatically in a clip from a new film that has gone viral in the past few days: It shows an elderly man named Henry Dreher who emerges from a near stupor to dance in his chair, sing with gusto and wax poetic — all thanks to an iPod loaded with the songs of Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby and other favorites from the nursing home resident’s youth.
DetailsScientists are increasingly finding that depression and other psychological disorders can be as much diseases of the body as of the mind.
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