We know that exercise is good for your heart. But a new study published in the American Journal of Physiology suggests that using a sauna after your workout might help your heart even more. Researchers in Finland divided 47 adults into three groups – exercise three times per week, exercise plus a 15-minute sauna session […]

If you want to get more exercise and physical activity, try wearing a fitness tracker. In a new study published in the journal Lancet Digital Health, Australian researchers compiled data from almost 400 studies that included data on wearable activity trackers and the physical activity habits of roughly 164,000 people. They found that using these […]

Mothers who experience sleep problems are more prone to parental burnout, according to a new study published in the journal Brain and Behavior. Researchers studied 224 mothers of school-aged children. They observed that insomnia, hypersomnia, and other sleep issues are linked to parental burnout. This burnout can manifest as mothers feeling exhaustion and unhappiness from […]

New research suggests that alcohol directly accelerates the aging process. In the study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, scientists from Oxford Population Health examined the link between alcohol consumption and telomere length in almost 250,000 adults. Telomeres are DNA sequences that cap the end of chromosomes, protecting them from damage. Telomere length is considered […]

Getting outside and working in the garden might improve your mental health, according to a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers at the University of Florida assigned 42 volunteers to either gardening or art-making groups. During the gardening sessions, participants learned to transplant plants, sow seeds, and harvest and taste edible plants. […]

It turns out exercise won’t erase the harmful effects of an unhealthy diet. In a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia examined the diets and exercise patterns of more than 360,000 British adults over 11 years. They considered a “bad diet” to be […]

Which diet is better for your heart – the Mediterranean diet endorsed by most nutritionists, or the ketogenic diet, or keto? A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition offers some insight. Stanford researchers had 33 patients with prediabetes or diabetes follow both diets for a month, one after the other. They […]

We know that sleep is critical for our mental health, but a new study shows that a certain phase of sleep is important for our emotional health as well. In the study, published in the journal Science, Swiss researchers examined the brain activity of mice during wakefulness, REM, and non-REM sleep. They found that during […]

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics shows that childhood obesity has become more common in this country in recent years. Researchers at Emory University followed two nationally representative samples of children from kindergarten to fifth grade. One group of children was studied from 1998 to 2004, while the other group was followed from […]

We have probably all felt irritable or grumpy when we felt we needed to eat, a condition many people jokingly call being “hangry.” According to a new study published in the journal PLOS One, being hangry is a real phenomenon. English researchers surveyed 64 adults five times a day at random times for three weeks. […]