Healthy Living Articles

Should you being filling out a job application along with your retirement application? A meaningful job has positive consequences for your health.

Parenting is easily the most challenging thing you'll ever do. You have no choice but to "learn on the job" and to simply get stuck in, but it is not too early to start thinking about your personal parenting philosophy when you get that positive pregnancy

There's no denying biological facts it is harder to get pregnant at 45 than it was at 35, and your fertility was already in decline when you were in your thirties.

Can bathing too much make you dirtier? Even if you come out squeaky clean, inattention to what else goes into your tub can leave you exposed to parasites.

It isn't enough that Google controls our online life. Now they are participating in a joint venture to control our inner organs, too, although the intention is to restore normal organ function, not to build a Terminator.

Scientists have recently discovered that stress seems to shrink brain cells. Those stressed-out brain cells then smother connections between healthy cells.

"One quarter of what we eat sustains our lives," Dr. Mark Mattson says of an ancient Egyptian inscription, "the rest sustains our doctors." Whether or not the quotation is apocryphal, there is mounting evidence enhances brain health.

When we take a pill or submit to another medical exam, we do so in the belief that they are necessary and for our benefit. But recent research suggests that we might as well pop a sugar pill, rather than undergo some of our most popular treatments.

From beating human champions at the chess-like game Go to working on cures for age-related macular degeneration and finding workload solutions for physicians, Google DeepMind Health is doing some pretty exciting things.

The benefits of sunshine aren't all in the Vitamin D. Sunlight has many other benefits for our bodies. Let's find out what the sun can do for you, and how you can make the most of it this summer.