We’ve known for a long time that severe caloric restriction can dramatically increase the lifespan of mice, but needless to say, mice are not people. Now, researchers have reported not only greater longevity in rhesus monkeys on restricted diets, but less disease and less brain shrinkage as well. Rhesus monkeys Read more…
Continuing our Father’s Day discussion of the importance of involved dads, I read with interest that in a study of families in Senegal, mothers’ ratings of how invested fathers were in their children were highly correlated with observer ratings of how much a child resembled his or her father. These data are consistent Read more…
I hope you are all enjoying a nice birthday party for the good ole USA. In case you need a refresher about the original point of all this, you can read the text of the Declaration of Independence here, and learn about the 56 signers, who quite possibly are some Read more…
As the second anniversary of my weightloss maintenance on Jenny Craig approaches, it seems only fitting to consider the state of overweight and obesity in the United States. The news is not encouraging. New data from Trust for America’s Health says that Americans are continuing to get fatter. The Trust Read more…