Our body chemistry is a couple of million years old and it is not compatible with the modern diet of refined grains, high sugar and salt intake and minimal physical activity. All of the so-called diseases of aging are actually lifestyle diseases.
The media are becoming crowded with commercials about diabetes-related products and services. Type 2 diabetes was almost unknown less than a century ago but it threatens our economy as well as the lifespan of the youngest generation.
Experts in the management of type 2 diabetes refer to it as an exercise-deficiency disease, which is only a mild exaggeration. It is 100 percent avoidable but once established it is not curable.
Ethnic restaurants seldom serve the kind of food that comprises the menu of the original country. Learn what foods they really eat in the old country.
Exotic travel sometimes results in exotic diseases. Almost all can be avoided with careful planning.
Most forms of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, can be avoided or delayed by following a prudent lifestyle.
Humans evolved without artificial lighting and we are still subject to the day-night and seasonal rhythms to which we have adapted. Diseases and conditions that never affected our Stone Age ancestors are now common thanks to Thomas Edison.
Wine and chocolate come from plant sources that provide us with nutrients that help to forestall some major diseases.
We can avoid several major diseases if we take advantage of the screening procedures that are commonly available.
The advantages of regular physical activity go far beyond maintaining a healthy weight and a strong cardiopulmonary system.
Learn what the numbers mean and which ones you can ignore.
When someone collapses he or she is likely to receive help from a bystander only 20 percent of the time, yet the ability to recognize an emergency and to respond to it requires only small investment of time and study.
Osteoporosis is not an inevitable consequence of aging and taking calcium will not postpone its onset.
Not all dietary fats are harmful. Some are critical to our survival. Most of us have reversed our fat priorities.
Shopping at the local food market and dining out offer opportunities that are either beneficial or disastrous. Learning the differences can add years to your life.
Muscle does not turn into fat, you can't get the flu from the flu vaccine and several other myth-reversals can take the stress out of your life.
There are reasons why we have eyebrows, toenails, underarm hair and appendixes. Learning why is an interesting experience.
Your local pizza parlor serves dishes that don't come close to the true Mediterranean diet. Learn why the dwellers of the Mediterranean area are among the world's healthiest.
Low-carb diets work and they also have high drop-out rates. The reasons are simple and knowing them can help you to learn what works best for you.
Some vitamins are oversold but many Americans, especially seniors, have serious but not obvious vitamin deficiencies.
Humans became smarter when they learned how to fish. That explains a lot of today's psychosocial problems.
Okinawa has the largest percentage of centenarians on the planet and it has nothing to do with their genes, or luck.
Our Stone Age ancestors were healthier than most Americans. We only have to learn what worked for them in order to live to grow older free from disease.
Vaccines have been around for centuries and they are responsible for the eradication of several deadly diseases. They are not entirely benign, however. Immunization is no longer only for children.
The modern diet is not always adequate in its content of minerals, some of which are needed in only tiny amounts.