Jun 4th, 2025 - Focusing on eccentric exercises — where muscles extend rather than contract — builds more strength and muscle while also buttressing your tendons. Listen to this article · 5:56 min Sign up for the Well newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Essential news and guidance to live your healthiest life. In the gym, it can be tempting to focus on the showiest moves: the impressive deadlift, an explosive bench press. But to build strength and reduce your injury risk, how much you lift isn't the only thing that matters. Lowering a weight can do as much — if not more — ... [Read More]

Jun 3rd, 2025 - When most people think about insulin resistance, sugar is usually the first thing that comes to mind. And while excessive sugar consumption can certainly play a role, emerging research—and experts like Cate Shanahan, M.D. —suggests that oxidative stress may be a major, and often overlooked, driver of insulin resistance. On the mindbodygreen podcast , Shanahan shared her perspective on how oxidative stress, fueled in part by industrial seed oils, can disrupt metabolism and contribute to insulin resistance—a condition that affects one in three adults in the United States and ... [Read More]

Jun 2nd, 2025 - You can't go wrong including these nuts and seeds into your diet for a healthier brain. The human brain is a marvel of evolution, a three-pound universe of neurons and synapses that allows us to think, dream, and create. But like any finely tuned machine, it needs the right fuel to perform at its best. Crunchy foods like walnuts, almonds, and chia seeds hide a powerhouse of nutrients behind their modest shells and husks. A growing pile of studies points to nuts and seeds as some of nature's best brain food. They're packed with fats, vitamins, and antioxidants that don't just keep your body ... [Read More]

Jun 2nd, 2025 - A seed with a firm reputation has sparked fresh interest among nutrition enthusiasts. It contains high amounts of minerals and protein that seem to benefit many areas of human health. Amaranth is considered a pseudocereal, which means it is used like a cereal grain, yet it belongs to a different botanical group. Dr. Julieta M. Lopez-Martinez notes that this seed's calcium and iron content is significant enough to get people talking about its potential to keep bones strong and reduce the chances of unhealthy cell changes. Amaranth seeds' nutritional makeup Amaranth seeds contain amino acids ... [Read More]

Jun 2nd, 2025 - It's easy to believe that being healthy means buying superfoods, all organic produce, expensive supplements and pricey powders. After all, these are all over social media. But that's not true. In fact, you probably have a lot of healthy, nutrient-dense foods sitting in your refrigerator and pantry right now.  As long as you eat a balanced diet filled with a variety of foods like fruits, veggies, grains and proteins, you're probably getting all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. That's why I want to get rid of the idea that "healthy" means you have to buy expensive items. ... [Read More]

Jun 2nd, 2025 - MONDAY, June 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hot flashes, night sweat and other symptoms making hellish for you? You might consider going vegan, a new study suggests Severe hot flashes decreased by 92% among a group of menopausal women assigned to eat a low-fat vegan diet for three months, researchers reported May 28 in the journal . The women also lost an average 8 pounds by eating vegan, results show. Women achieved these results even if the plant-based foods they ate were processed or ultraprocessed fare like Beyond Burgers or BOCA burgers, researchers found. The results suggest that ... [Read More]

Jun 1st, 2025 - Cutting sugar from the diet is not only for weight loss, it also has a host of other health benefits. As it is well known, refined sugar has no nutritional value, and is not only responsible for weight gain, but lifestyle diseases such as high blood sugar, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, dental issues such as cavities, increased triglycerides, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Too much sugar consumption can also increase blood pressure and chronic inflammation, upping your risk for stroke, heart disease and osteoporosis. However, just cutting out sugar for 2 weeks can bring a host of ... [Read More]

Jun 1st, 2025 - Life is easier with a strong, flexible body – and this weightlifting move will help with everything from rearranging the furniture to picking up your groceries. You might even learn to love the barbell ne of the lovely things about getting older is realising there's always something more you should be doing to look after your body. Did I say lovely ? Obviously I meant tedious . But how you feel about it doesn't change the facts. If you take the slightest interest in your health, and want to stay strong, mobile and pain-free in your 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond, you'll have to pay attention ... [Read More]