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- Mice eating less isoleucine live longer, healthier https://news.wisc.edu/mice-eating-less-of-specific-amino-acid-overrepresented-in-diet-of-obese-people-live-longer-healthier/ 72 comments
- New study examined skeletons of people who died before and after the Black Death. Plague survivors and their descendants were healthier and longer-living, meaning that the Black Death served as a gigantic natural selection event eliminating many of the weak and frail from the population. http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/05/08/black_death_the_upside_to_killing_half_of_europe.html 212 comments science
- Live Longer or Healthier? The Science That Is Making Both Possible https://institute.global/policy/live-longer-or-healthier-science-making-both-possible 6 comments futurology
- Sperm that lives for longer before fertilizing an egg produce healthier offspring -- according to new research https://www.genengnews.com/news/sperm-that-lives-long-yields-offspring-that-prospers/ 8 comments science
- 17 ways to live longer and healthier https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/6aa3e9/17_ways_to_live_longer_and_healthier/ 6 comments productivity
- Childhood cancer survivors are living longer, but not healthier, lives than ever before http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/fulltext/2017/01250/3_questions_on___why_childhood_cancer_survivors.16.aspx 4 comments science
- Raising retirement age would widen benefit disparities for disadvantaged: "'We're living longer and healthier than ever before, but the statutory age of retirement for receiving Social Security benefits doesn't reflect that...'" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150402161739.htm 89 comments politics
- Massive study seeks to help dogs live longer and healthier https://archive.ph/xe6Td 8 comments upliftingnews
- Massive study seeks to help dogs live longer and healthier https://archive.ph/xe6Td 16 comments nature
- Sweet vibes between longtime couples are tied to longer, healthier lives. Study measures incidents of positivity resonance during conversations between spouses https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/03/08/sweet-vibes-between-longtime-couples-are-tied-to-longer-healthier-lives/ 2 comments science
- Nearly half a billion people on the planet have diabetes, but most of them aren't getting the kind of care that could make their lives healthier, longer and more productive, according to a new global study of data from people with the condition. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/mm-u-vuo052021.php 19 comments science
- Increasing time between meals made male mice healthier overall and live longer compared to mice who ate more frequently regardless of what the mice ate or how many calories they consumed, according to a new NIH-supported study published in Cell Metabolism. https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/longer-daily-fasting-times-improve-health-and-longevity-mice 70 comments science
- Why these Amish live longer and healthier: an internal ‘fountain of youth https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/november/amish-live-longer-healthier-internal-fountain-of-youth/ 3 comments science
- Studies: Ketogenic Mice Live Longer, Healthier Lives http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/50252/studies-ketogenic-mice-live-longer-healthier-lives 10 comments science
- Women may live longer, healthier lives than men because their immune systems age more slowly, researchers have found. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10056901/womens-immune-systems-hold-the-secret-to-longer-life.html 5 comments science
- Political freedom linked to longer and healthier lives http://veracium.com/blog/rylec/political-freedom-linked-82 5 comments science
- Age Hacking: 100 Ways to Live a Healthier, Happier, Longer Life http://www.seniorsforliving.com/content/article/age-hacking-100-ways-to-live-a-healthier-happier-longer-life/61/ 12 comments reddit.com
- Adults who stay well-hydrated appear to be healthier, develop fewer chronic conditions, such as heart and lung disease, and live longer than those who may not get sufficient fluids, study finds https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2023/good-hydration-linked-healthy-aging 2571 comments science
- Massive study seeks to help dogs live longer and healthier. Early data suggests reversal of age-related declines in heart function with rapamycin https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-dog-aging-project-digs-deeper-than-ever-to-help-our-best-friends-live-better-longer-and-the-findings-could-help-us-too/ 97 comments futurology
- Drug discovered on Easter Island may help dogs live healthier for longer https://www.krtv.com/news/u-s-and-the-world/new-drug-may-help-dogs-live-longer 33 comments upliftingnews
- Drug discovered on Easter Island may help dogs live healthier for longer https://www.krtv.com/news/u-s-and-the-world/new-drug-may-help-dogs-live-longer 124 comments futurology
- Pollution in Beijing is Down by Half Since the Last Olympics, Adding Four Years onto Lives. China is winning Its ‘war against pollution,’ but further reductions would allow people to live longer and healthier lives. https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/news/pollution-in-beijing-is-down-by-half-since-the-last-olympics-adding-four-years-onto-lives/ 19 comments china
- People are living longer, but not necessarily healthier — Scientists are aiming to increase health span with drugs targeting aging as the root cause of major diseases like dementia and most cancers | WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-you-fight-aging-scientists-are-testing-drugs-to-help-11641913275?st=opi62y5f84qe6um&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter 130 comments futurology
- Nearly 60% of American children do not have healthy cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), a key measure of physical fitness and overall health. Children with healthy CRF are more likely to live longer and be healthier as adults. https://newsroom.heart.org/news/nearly-60-of-american-children-lack-healthy-cardiorespiratory-fitness 2 comments science
- Education may be key to a healthier, wealthier US: The study finds that the reduced disability and longer lives among the more educated are worth up to twice as much as the value of education for lifetime earnings. “Education could be a more substantial contributor to longevity than medical care.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0009.12372 28 comments science
- How Japan stood up to old age: Twenty-five per cent of Japanese are over 65. But not only do they live longer, they work longer, stay healthier, care for their elderly better – and have found ways to pay for it http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/07d4c8a8-7e45-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html?src=longreads#slide0 20 comments politics
- Researchers discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm C. elegans, but also delays the rate of ageing in them, a finding that could someday mean longer, healthier lives for humans, as reported in Developmental Cell. https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/newsroom/yale-nus-researchers-discover-drug-cocktail-that-increases-lifespan/ 32 comments science
- "Baby boomers are living longer lives than their predecessors, but not necessarily healthier lives, according to a new study . . . Men and women born between 1946 and 1964 were more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes than the generation before them" http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/05/baby-boomers-living-longer-not-healthier/ 20 comments science
- Researchers have discovered that an improper calcium signaling in the mitochondria of certain immune cells is a driver of chronic inflammation that accelerates aging, this finding could let us to live longer and healthier https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2023/07/24/inflammation-discovery-could-slow-aging-prevent-age-related-diseases/ 20 comments science
- Baby Boomers Living Longer, Not Healthier: "Men and women born between 1946 and 1964 were more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes than the generation before them . . . They were also more likely to be obese and less likely to exercise." http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/05/baby-boomers-living-longer-not-healthier/ 3 comments politics
- Researchers report that women whose mothers lived to at least age 90 were more likely to also live to 90, free of serious diseases and disabilities. Results show a 25 percent increased likelihood of living longer and healthier if mom lived to age 90 and a 38 percent increase if both parents did https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/parental_life_span_predicts_daughters_living_to_90_without_chronic_disease_or_disability 3 comments science