Last year, while researching for my book “Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives,” I visited five of the world’s healthiest countries — Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Spain — to see how they keep older adults active, engaged, purposeful, and healthy. I picked these countries because they have some…
Jane Goodall, the acclaimed conservationist who captured the world’s attention through her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees in Africa, died of natural causes at age 91 on Wednesday. She was on a speaking tour in Los Angeles when she passed. And her commitment to working in her 90s aligns with a common trait of…
For two decades, Dr. Vonda Wright served as an academic surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh. There, she researched musculoskeletal aging and longevity in hopes of “dispelling the common notion that aging was an inevitable decline,” she says. The bulk of her research, alongside her team, involved studying members of aging populations who kept active,…
A recent study conducted by Harvard researchers found that adopting a plant-based diet can boost your health and increase your likelihood of living a longer life — even if you don’t start until middle age. The paper, published in the journal “Nature Medicine” in March, found an association between eating plant-based and healthy aging. For…
Let’s face it: Americans are stressed. Google searches for “how to reduce stress” are high, and 77% of U.S. adults report that the country’s future is a major source of stress, according to a survey done by the American Psychological Association. So, it’s no surprise that people are looking for ways to better manage their…
