Tag: “healthy life

Healthy Lifestyle Linked to Slower Memory Decline in Older Adults

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The researchers found that each individual’s healthy behavior (healthy diet, regular exercise, active social contact, cognitive activity, non-smoking, and never drinking alcohol) was associated with a slower-than-average decline in memory over 10 years after accounting for other health, economic, and social factors. The strongest effect on slowing memory decline is a healthy diet, followed by cognitive activity and then physical exercise.

Even those with genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease see benefits.

According to a decade-long study of older adults in China, recently published in The BMJa healthy lifestyle, particularly a healthy diet, is linked to slower memory decline.

The study found that even carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, which is the strongest known risk factor for[{” attribute=””Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, can benefit from a healthy lifestyle.

Memory continuously declines as people age, but evidence from existing studies is insufficient to assess the effect of a

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The Harvard diet may be the standard for living a long and healthy life

You’ve almost certainly heard of the Mediterranean diet and the MyPlate method, but what about Harvard University’s Healthy Eating Plate?

Back in 2011, nutrition experts at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health worked alongside researchers at Harvard Health Publications to compile an eating plan for optimal health.

“In terms of major chronic diseases such as prevention of cardiovascular disease, different types of cancers [and] Type 2 diabetes, this way of eating is going to be helpful to prevent those diseases that are common in America, and the world,” says Lilian Cheung, lecturer of nutrition at Harvard’s school of public health.

Now that the topics of longevity and healthy aging are more popular than ever, people are looking for more ways to live longer, and the Harvard diet has found its way back into the news cycle.

What is the ‘Harvard diet’?

The Harvard diet is actually Harvard’s Healthy

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How Can We Stop Overthinking?


How many evenings have seemed endless due to the constant over-analyzing we do in our minds? If you belong to the category of “overthinkers”, you understand exactly what we mean. A simple and innocent thought can very easily become inflated and end up being a torture of our psychology. Most problems are created by ourselves in the first place, due to the fact that we often allow them to creep into us, focusing on the worst case scenario and not on their solution. This is how a person who analyzes everything functions. Except that in this case even an insignificant event is capable of turning it into a stressful situation.

Why is this happening to me?

It’s a question everyone asks themselves. In general, overthinking is considered common in most of us, as we tend to think about how a situation can develop, what emotions it will bring us, how

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