healthy life expectancy

UBC promises to go beyond eating well and exercising in a healthy aging speaker series

Violin26/01/2023 40 Views

What steps can people take right now to ensure their lives are as long, happy and healthy as possible?

This is the question a new speaker series by the University of British Columbia’s Healthy Aging Program hopes to answer.

The current chair of the program, Michael Kobor, says they still don’t know all the answers, but they do know where some of the secrets lie. Good nutrition and exercise are obvious ones, but less researched areas are important too.

“There are also psychosocial aspects, like belonging and having a purpose in life,” Kobor says.

A leading expert in epigenetics, Kobor

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Why Body Neutrality May Be the Healthy Headspace You Never Knew You Needed

Violin25/01/2023 63 Views

When you adopt a body-neutral mindset, you start to appreciate your body’s amazing daily feats—and it feels really good.

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Bon Allen recalls a time in her life when she didn’t look favorably on her body. Based on what it looked like to her, and what she believed was being said about her due to social constructs, she said that she didn’t have a good relationship with her body. It didn’t help that she was also going through infertility. Then one day, she decided to shift her thinking.

“By focusing on other

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Cardiovascular health: Tips to keep your heart healthy if you are turning 30

Violin19/01/2023 36 Views

Health news — Image Source : FREEPIK Tips to keep your heart healthy if you are turning 30

Cardiovascular health: Juggling a family and career has probably left you with little time to worry about yourself. Life is a balancing act, but our health should always come first. Now is the time to build heart-healthy habits. That means living a healthy lifestyle, including eating healthy, getting lots of physical activity and a full night’s sleep. Studies have shown that if we can avoid the conditions that put us at risk for heart disease until we turn 50, chances are good that we may

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Sugar And Its Natural Substitutes

Violin19/01/2023 46 Views

Added sugar has been linked to many serious diseases, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Fortunately, there are many ways to sweeten foods without adding sugar. There are many natural sweeteners that people often use instead of sugar. These include coconut sugar, honey, maple syrup and molasses. While these natural sweeteners may contain more nutrients than regular sugar, your body still metabolizes them in the same way.

The natural sweeteners listed below are slightly ‘less bad’ than regular sugar. Nevertheless, they are still forms of sugar.

Why sugar is bad for you

Sugar interferes with your body’s hormones that

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Lemons – Nutritional Value And Benefits

Violin17/01/2023 39 Views

Yellow and juicy, with sometimes sour and sometimes bitter-sweet taste, fresh aroma and amazing properties. Lemon, the fruit of the citrus family, is associated with many different uses in our everyday life, because it is not only used for cooking and desserts, but also as a disinfectant-cleanser, as an aromatic ingredient in beauty products and perfumes, and also as a therapeutic medicine. But are they really as beneficial as they are touted? The answer is yes and a lot of them.

The widespread use of lemons has led to confusion about their nutritional value, with many wellness techniques circulating around

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Is Dry January a sign of a healthier approach to alcohol?

Violin15/01/2023 37 Views

“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates.

What’s happening

A practice known as Dry January, in which participants avoid alcohol for the first month of the year, has grown in popularity over the past few years.

In a recent poll, about said they intend to stop or at least reduce their alcohol consumption this month. In the United Kingdom, nearly have said they plan to give up alcohol in Dry January, according to the charity that coined the phrase 10 years ago, Alcohol Change UK.

Although it’s a relatively new phenomenon, it does suggest

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‘Fit and healthy’ mother who fought thyroid cancer at 27 shares 4 symptoms she ignored

Violin11/01/2023 43 Views

A mother who battled thyroid cancer aged 27 has revealed the symptoms she ignored weeks before her diagnosis, from dry skin to brittle hair.

Christina McKnight, now 35, thought little of the signs for weeks and was only diagnosed after her husband, Matthew Mcknight, 36, “forced” her to see a doctor.

She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the fall of 2014, despite having no family history and being “young, fit and healthy”.

Christina – who now has a five-year-old son – thought her symptoms were caused by stress after she landed a promotion at her job at a commercial

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Staying hydrated is linked to a longer, healthier life, new study suggests

Violin10/01/2023 63 Views

The secret to living a longer and healthier life? At least part of the answer could actually be pretty simple: water.

A new peer-reviewed study published Monday in the journal eBioMedicine, which is part of The Lancet, suggests that people who get proper hydration may be less likely to show signs of aging and chronic illnesses. Researchers analyzed health data from more than 15,700 adults between the ages of 45 and 66 for more than 25 years, specifically looking at their serum sodium levels, or the amount of sodium in their blood. Those levels, researchers say, are a proxy for

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