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Bob Wills sang, "Texas two-step ... Spin me around/You got to hold me up/When you dip me down." You could also say a "diabetes two-step" can spin you around and dip your risks down. That's the finding of two recent studies.

The first, presented at ENDO 2025, took a look at intermittent energy restriction (IER), time-restricted eating and ...Read more

When Blue Magic sang "To get love you must give love/To keep love you must share love/To know love you must show your loving ways," little did they know that almost 50 years later, researchers from Penn State would come to precisely the same conclusion.

Their study in PlosOne had 52 participants record their feelings about receiving love and ...Read more

It is heartbreaking -- literally -- that more than 39,000 deaths, almost 100,000 non-fatal heart attacks and up to 65,000 strokes could be avoided if everyone who was eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications did so.

A study in the Journal of Internal Medicine says that even though European and U.S. guidelines indicate that 47% to 87% ...Read more

Good glutes mean good health. The muscles in your backside aren't just there to make you look good in your jeans -- they are essential for a healthy spine and back, good balance, and to give you the power you need to walk (10,000 steps a day), climb stairs, lift that bag of groceries, dash to catch a bus or play pickleball! But in this sit-down-...Read more

Joey Chestnut won his 17th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025, downing 70 1/2 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Yikes! A new study in Nature reveals that eating even one hot dog (or other processed meats, like salami, bacon or sausage) a day boosts your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 11% and colon cancer by 7% -- and drinking a 12-ounce ...Read more

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 12% of American adults (almost 40 million folks) have chronic insomnia. And around 28 million use sleep medications every or almost every day. The result of those two habits is far from restful!

Both insomnia and taking sleep meds significantly increase the risk for disabilities such as ...Read more

You or your teenage kids may be into heavy metal, like Black Sabbath, Metallica and Iron Maiden, but no one should be into inhaling heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic, for example). Unfortunately, a study published in the journal Central Science found that those toxins are in the mist of many vapes. In fact, the researchers said ...Read more

There's a new Stanford Medicine study that analyzed the levels of around 3,000 proteins in the blood of 44,000 folks to assess the biological (as opposed to chronological) age of 11 of their organ systems, including the brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.

The biological age of the brain turned out to have the strongest link to future health...Read more

Psst! PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are toxic chemicals that show up in nonstick cookware, grease-resistant food packaging, waterproof clothing, and stain-resistant upholstery, and are then shed into the water supply, fish, and the air you breathe. According to the Natural Resources Defense Fund, animal and human studies link them ...Read more

I don't want to put pressure on you ... but did you know that if you develop high blood pressure in middle age and it's uncontrolled, you're at an increased risk for dementia? That's because high blood pressure damages blood vessels and can reduce blood flow to the brain. As a result, your blood isn't effectively clearing harmful waste products ...Read more

Wouldn't it be great if you could wash away your worries about Type 2 diabetes? Well, a new 18-month study presented recently at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association reveals just how powerful an influence your choice of beverage can be.

Researchers divided women with Type 2 diabetes who were in a weight management ...Read more

The "Sweaty Dozen" is a list from the Cleveland Clinic of 12 ways that exercise can transform your life -- making you live longer, stronger and happier. In fact, a study published in Circulation found that, over 30 years, people who followed the minimum guidelines by getting 150 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity a week lowered ...Read more

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