Healthy Aging: 3 Lifestyle Habits for Optimal Well-Being

Here’s how to live a happy — and vibrant — life.

With age comes the priceless rewards of hard-earned wisdom, increased emotional resilience, and a better understanding of life’s kaleidoscopic nuances. As Katie likes to say, “Aging is a gift,” and we agree: Getting older is celebration-worthy.

Taking proactive measures to stay healthy as you age — and remain a step or two ahead of unwanted surprises — can help ensure that you don’t miss out on important life events and milestones.

Just think about how many more years we’re living than our ancestors: In 1969, the average life expectancy

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Mediterranean Chopped Salad – Eat Yourself Skinny

Fresh and crisp Mediterranean Chopped Salad made with fresh tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, red onion, chickpeas, olives and feta cheese all tossed with a delicious red wine vinaigrette!

Fresh and crisp Mediterranean Chopped Salad made with fresh tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, red onion, chickpeas, olives and feta cheese all tossed with a delicious red wine vinaigrette!

There’s nothing better on a warm day than a crisp, fresh salad and this Mediterranean chopped salad is one of my absolute favorites!  Super simple to make, loaded with your favorite vegetables, protein-packed chickpeas and a zesty red wine vinegar dressing all sprinkled with some crumbled feta cheese.  This salad also tastes great served with chicken, shrimp or steak and is easily customizable to your liking!  So much flavor in every bite!

Why

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6 Healthy Habits to Help You Live Longer

While the Mediterranean diet tends to get most of the glory in the health landscape—as the best diet of 2023, as a way of life that’s ideal to support heart health and as a terrific option for individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes—it’s not the only lifestyle that can help boost longevity.


There are people from a handful of communities across the globe who live just as long, says Dan Buettner, a Miami-based National Geographic fellow and the author of The Blue Zones American Kitchen. As the founder of the Blue Zones project in 2000, he pulled together medical

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Ultimate Father’s Day gift: Son donates kidney to save his dad’s life

Some dads might get gift cards, steak dinners or new golf clubs for Father’s Day.

Yet Jose Calixto, 56, received something far more significant for the occasion this year.

A few weeks ago, Jonathan Calixto, 30, saved his father’s life by donating a healthy kidney.

“I never hesitated,” the son told Fox News Digital.

FATHERHOOD IS ‘HEROIC ROLE’ FOR MEN, SAYS FILMMAKER AND DEFENDER OF DADS JOHN PAPOLA

Ahead of Father’s Day weekend, father and son reveal how the operation changed their lives.

Easy decisions

Jose Calixto, a porter at a New York City building, learned he had kidney disease

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The World Health Assembly adopts more Best Buys to tackle non-communicable diseases

The World Health Organization has expanded the list of ‘NCD best buys’. The updated list was approved at the 76thth World Health Assembly, a move that will support governments to select life-saving interventions and policies for the world’s biggest killers, non-communicable diseases. This gives countries of every income a level of support to improve the health of their citizens.

Interventions offered include taxes and bans on advertising for tobacco and alcohol, reformulation of policies for healthier food and drinks and the promotion and support of optimal breastfeeding practices.

The new list also includes secondary prevention for rheumatic fever, acute

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From chewing gum to eating too much veg – 9 ‘healthy’ habits that could do MORE harm than good

THOUGHT you lived a relatively healthy life?

It turns out there are several habits many of us think are doing us the world of good, when in fact they could actually be getting in the way of you staying healthy.

Thought you were making a healthy choice?  It can be tough discerning what is and isn't healthy

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Thought you were making a healthy choice? It can be tough discerning what is and isn’t healthycredit: Getty

These experts share the common mistakes that many of us may be making…

1. Eating too many high-histamine foods

You may only know of the word ‘histamine’ from packets of antihistamines, often taken during allergy season.

Hannah Braye, Nutritionist at

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Jimmie Allen and wife Alexis Gale announce separation, baby news: ‘Life changes’

Country music musician Jimmie Allen is experiencing several life transitions, including he and his wife Alexis Gale’s separation.

In an Instagram post Friday Allen wrote that “after much thought” he and Gale had made the decision to separate. He also shared that their family would be expanding.

“As we navigate this life change, we can also share that we will be welcoming another child together later this year,” he wrote. “Our number one priority is and will always be ensuring that our children are healthy, happy and loved and we remain committed to co-parenting with love and respect for one

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How To Lose The Extra Kilos In A Week


The biggest mistake we make when we make the decision to finally start this diet that can make our lives a little harder, is that we lean on things that end up bringing us the opposite results. What are we trying to say? A smart tip if you want to lose excess weight in a few days is not to frantically avoid sweets and carbohydrates, but to drop small “bad” habits. The idea is not to overdo it, which can also be a strong psychological burden for us, but to follow advice that will actually bring radical changes over time.

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