What is healthy aging?
Getting older is a natural part of life. How you will feel as you get older depends on many things, including what health problems run in your family and the choices you make. If you take good care of your body and learn positive ways to deal with stress now, you can slow down or even prevent problems that often come with getting older.
It’s never too early or too late to change bad habits and start good ones. No matter when you start, a healthy lifestyle can make a difference in how you feel and what you can do.
 An addiction is a recurring compulsion to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual’s health, mental state or social life. The term is often reserved for drug, alcohol and nicotine addictions but is also applied to other compulsions such as compulsive overeating.
A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging and controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in sexual development and are being considered for elective corrective surgery, a new research paper suggests.
The paper does not address instances in which infants are born with conditions that pose an imminent threat to their health – such as when children are born without a urinary opening. Instead, the paper is intended to propose guidelines for use when surgery is being considered to make a child’s appearance more typical of their sex in order to facilitate their gender-identity development.
 When it comes to heart health, there is one fat that won’t work against you—fish oil. While most of us need more fish in our diets, heart experts recommend that people at risk for or with coronary artery disease should consume about one gram of fish oil per day. That’s the same amount in three ounces of wild salmon (farmed fish may have less heart-healthy fats than wild).
Healthy people should aim for 500 milligrams a day, according to James O’Keefe, MD, a cardiologist with the Mid-America Heart Institute in Bethesda, Md.
A new study is underway to see if drinking fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice every day can help prevent osteoporosis. Scientists are optimistic because a recent study in the journal Nutrition found that rats fed grapefruit pulp had greater bone density and a slower rate of bone loss than those that weren’t.
The high antioxidant level in the fruit may be the key, although no one knows for sure. Eight million American women suffer from osteoporosis—a condition in which bones weaken and become more susceptible to fractures—and the lifetime risk is 1 in 2.
 Though there is no legal or medical definition, superfoods are nutrient powerhouses that pack large doses of antioxidants, polyphenols, vitamins, and minerals. Eating them may reduce the risk of chronic disease, and prolong life, and people who eat more of them are healthier and thinner than those who don’t. Read about several foods that are considered super, what health benefits they offer, and how to fit them into your diet.
When it comes to multitasking, you’ve got it down. But if exercise often gets bumped off your to-do list by everything else vying for your attention, we’ve got the solution—five of them, actually. They’ll shave valuable minutes off your fitness routine while still getting you the same bene fits as a full-length workout. That way you can still fit exercise into even the most hectic days—and you’ll have some extra Me Time to read that best-seller that’s been collecting dust on your nightstand.
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Get the same strength results in 50 to 67 percent less time by doing just 1 set of strength-training moves. Recently revised guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommend a single set of 8 to 12 strength reps (with enough weight that you can’t do any more) instead of 2 or 3 sets.
You’ve probably heard the weight-loss tip to brush your teeth right after meals to keep yourself from snacking. This strategy can do double duty to help you resist cigarette cravings, too, says Colleen Doyle, RD, director of nutrition and physical activity at the American Cancer Society.
Manicurist Mila Yagoudaief showed Healthreader Lisa Heywood insider tricks to pulling off a salon-perfect pedi at home.
 People who take vitamin E supplements regularly for years—whether they are smokers or nonsmokers—may lower their risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the lung condition that is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. COPD includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis and is often, but not always, caused by smoking.
While the risk reduction is relatively small, 10%, COPD is a common and life-threatening condition in which a decline in lung function can be slowed down but not reversed. COPD symptoms include shortness of breath, coughing, and fatigue.
“The effect appears to be modest. But for something for which there isn’t really any effective therapy and tends to be a degenerative condition, anything that would reduce the risk even somewhat is not an insubstantial benefit,” says Jeffrey B. Blumberg, PhD, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston who was not involved in the study.
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