Healthy Living
Monthly articles on overall health improvement, including articles on fitness, nutrition and family living.
This Month's Features
Regular Exercise Helps Fight Heart Failure Exercise boosts the number of progenitor cells in people with heart failure, and those cells in turn repair and rebuild weakened muscle and blood vessels, researchers report.
To learn
more, visit this month's fitness
section.
Kids Who Skimp on Sleep Tend to Be Fatter While the connection between a child's weight and the amount of sleep that child gets may not be immediately apparent, new research has found a strong correlation between the two. Find out more in this month's family
and home section.
Brain Yields Clues to False Memories The areas of the brain where memory is processed may determine how a person can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred, otherwise known as a "false memory," say Duke University Medical Center researchers. Learn more
in this month's mind
and body section.
Many Americans Can't Afford to Eat Right In this land and season of plenty, low-income and rural Americans continue to have difficulty finding healthy foods that are affordable, a new study finds. Learn more
in this month's nutrition
section.