Health

Keeping flexible and strong as we get older is a physical challenge for most of us. And that usually means heading to the gym or yoga studio. But you may also want to consider Pilates, a method of controlled and precise physical movements developed decades ago by Joseph Pilates as…

Lisa Mosconi is a woman who knows her food- and how to approach eating in a way to take advantage of the neuroprotective quality of certain foods in order to maintain brain health. Dr. Mosconi is the Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College in…

Is the glass half full or half empty? Well, how you respond to this question could indicate whether you are at risk for dementia. Researchers at Yale University recently published a study in the science journal PLOS ONE that found that older people with a positive attitude toward aging have a…

If you’ve had a brush with serious illness, or even death, you’ve probably given some thought as to what you want the end of your own life to be like. Maybe you have some long-held dreams you want to pursue before the end arrives, or maybe you have some strong…

For many of us, watching this year’s Olympics will be thrilling and perhaps even motivating. Who doesn’t wonder what it feels like to go speeding down a mountain or flying through the air when you watch the Winter Olympics? While your “flying” days may be behind you, you can still…

February is a good time to take stock of your heart health, given that the American Heart Association has declared it to be Heart Health Month, and, more importantly, that heart disease remains the number one cause of death in the US. It’s often hard to keep track of the latest…