If you’d like to live longer, there’s now an easy way to do it. Just embrace your inner artist. Neurologists at Johns Hopkins University and Google teamed up and discovered you can live 10 years longer if you spend 45 minutes a day doing some kind of art that you enjoy. And art isn’t simply…
Sometimes our lives are so busy, and we get so overwhelmed with activities and events, even beyond our normal work and home routines, that a vacation just won’t do the trick. To avoid getting overtired and burnt out, there’s a new trend online to combat just that – it’s called “slow living.” You’ll find it…
Now that we’ve got a stretch of a little less humid weather, take advantage! Taking daily walks helps you in numerous ways – burning calories, helping with heart health, improving your physical fitness and mobility. But there’s a lot of other ways you probably didn’t even realize a brisk walk can help you mentally: You’ll…
You wake up and have coffee, you take a break in the middle of the day to go get coffee, you might even have some after a fancy dinner – and all of it could be adding YEARS to your life! A new study shows that two to three cups of coffee a day lowers…
If someone said you could add a year to your life just for cutting out ice cream, you might say you weren’t interested. But would you be interested in adding two decades to your life? A new study shows that there are eight habits that you should adopt by the age of 40, and you…
It’s not a new year, but with kids going back to school and Summer winding down, the first week of September is a good week to reset and think about your goals. Making new habits stick is hard, but not impossible, and there are a few steps to take to make achieving your goals easier.…
Some of us are early birds, and some of us are night owls – but when it comes to burning more fat through exercise, one time is better than the other to do it. Scientists have found that morning exercise can boost fat metabolism. Now the study was done on mice – but they found…
The first day after the weekend gives some of us a case of the Mondays – but you feel that way every day, there are some things that may be to blame that you can correct. The most common reason we’re tired is simple fatigue – not getting enough sleep after a busy weekend. But…
You know the adage – breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But it’s not just a saying – a new study has revealed just how true it really is! Adults who skip breakfast don’t simply miss out on a lot, but it’ll affect their choices for the rest of the day. No…
It happens to us all – sometimes we need a little extra motivation. But if there’s no one around and you need a self-pep talk, refer to yourself as “you” and not “I”. A new study found that when talking to yourself in the second person – like “you can do this” – running performance…