Tag: healthy lifestyle

Heart-healthy habits linked to longer life without chronic conditions

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Share on PinterestA study found that heart-healthy lifestyle habits described in the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8, such as physical activity and quality sleep, are associated with a longer lifespan and more years spent free of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. urbazon/Getty Images The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 is a concept that defines cardiovascular health based on four modifiable behaviors, such as physical activity and sleep, and four modifiable biometric measures, such as weight, blood glucose, and blood lipid levels, that impact cardiovascular health. The composite cardiovascular health score measured using the aforementioned…Continue Reading

Lee Hood (BS ’60, PhD ’68) on Living a Healthy Life and the Future of Medicine

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Caltech alumnus Leroy (Lee) Hood (BS ’60, PhD ’68) has spent over half a century thinking about how to live a good life. Hood is currently the CEO of Phenome Health, a non-profit created to measure individuals’ genetics, metabolites, environment, and behavioral habits—the so-called phenome—to help people live healthy lives and prevent disease. The organization’s Human Phenome Initiative aims to conduct these multidimensional studies on 1 million people over 10 years. On April 10, Hood gave the inaugural Presidential Distinguished Lecture at Caltech to discuss the shift in health care from disease care to wellness and prevention care. The Presidential…Continue Reading

Aging with grace: Grab the key to a long and healthy life

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PHOTO | AALIYAH BOWDEN Carolyn Cabral of Charlotte is part of a relatively exclusive club as a nonagenarian, or person between the ages of 90-99. In November, Carbal, 99, will reach a rarer milestone in November when he turned 100 – there were around 1,800 in North Carolina in 2021 according to the Population Division of the United Nations. What’s the secret to a long, healthy life? For Carolyn Cabral, who lives in Charlotte, it is playing bingo twice a week with friends and Zumba once a week.…Continue Reading