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When Merle Haggard sang, "Come home, come home, it's suppertime. The shadows lengthen fast. Come home, come home, it's suppertime. We're going home at last," you could almost smell the tantalizing aromas of his mother's home cooking wafting through the late afternoon air.

But for many folks, suppertime is a late evening pizza delivery or a ...Read more

Celebrating Medicare's 60th birthday gives me an opportunity to talk with my long-time friend and co-author Dr. Mehmet Oz, now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about how to better choose and use the different forms of Medicare.

Step by step: Medicare serves around 69 million Americans; 90% are over age 65 and ...Read more

Medicare, at age 60, is laser-focused on helping folks ages 65 and older restore, maintain, and achieve optimal health. An integral part of that is through wellness checkups that aim to help you prevent or treat physical and mental conditions that can age you prematurely.

The first available wellness check-up is your "Welcome to Medicare" visit...Read more

You decide to become vegan to help prevent the diseases strongly associated with red meat. As a result, your blood pressure and lousy LDL cholesterol levels become much healthier. Or you plant a vegetable garden to save on food costs and being in nature and getting physical activity transforms your mood, making you less anxious.

Positive ...Read more

Many tick-borne conditions can lead to chronic inflammation that causes fatigue, brain fog, arthritis, and irritation of the lining of the heart and lungs -- all prematurely aging you. Unfortunately, as many as 300,000 Americans get tick-transmitted Lyme disease each year and many others contract one of the 13 other tick-spread infections that ...Read more

There's a TikTok video of the New England Patriots' wide receiver Stefon Diggs trying to do Pilates -- and getting flipped off the device like a pancake. But Chelsea Handler had the opposite experience: "I was a fitness fiasco until I found Pilates," she's admitted.

Clearly, it pays to find out what your exercise personality -- and ability -- ...Read more

Not to throw shade on you, but if you're not wearing sunglasses, your eye health is not "made in the shade." That's because sunglasses protect your eyes -- and eyelids -- from the damage that ultraviolet (UV) sunlight can do to them.

In fact, basal cell and squamous carcinoma on the eyelids are not uncommon and account for approximately 10% of ...Read more

There's a lot of flap online about two fat flips. One is in a study in Cell Reports that's calling out a component of "super-healthful" olive oil -- the omega-9 called oleic acid -- for its fat-cell-building ability that can fuel obesity. Another study, from the American Society for Nutrition, says seed oils, long-targeted for links to ...Read more

There's been criticism about using BMI (body mass index) to determine if a person is obese or overweight and to predict how it might indicate risks to health and longevity. After all, the weight of a super-muscular body may register as "obese" when the percentage of body fat may be extremely low. And now, a study published in the Annals of ...Read more

When cyclist Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996 at age 25, people were shocked that someone so young could have the disease. Well, most people haven't learned much about the condition since then, according to a new survey by the Ohio State University Comprehensive CANCER Center. They found that only 13% of folks know ...Read more

Yankee pitcher Giancarlo Stanton made his season debut June 16, 2025, sitting out the beginning of the year with tendinitis in both elbows. But the acute pain caused by microtears in the tendons around the elbow, wrist, knee, ankle or shoulder can sideline anyone.

Tendonitis often comes from overuse or repetitive motion, but as you age, it can ...Read more

Don't take your heart health for granted! A review in the journal JACC looked at data on more than 14,000 participants, ages 30 to 79, in the decade-long National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The researchers concluded that 20% of U.S. adults are at an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years -- ...Read more

You may never have heard of a sleep potato or a sleep pea, but they do exist, at least according to a new study published in Sleep Health. Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 34 folks to see if what they ate during the day affected their nightly snooze. They found that those who ate the most fruits, vegetables and whole grains slept the ...Read more

Pop music has folks falling all over the place: There's Harry Styles' "Falling," Alan Walker's "All Falls Down," and Glen Hansard's "Falling Slowly." Turns out, older Americans are also falling a lot -- and with terrible results.

A Center for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that unintentional fall-related deaths have skyrocketed by ...Read more