Is the housing market on the road to recovery? Will your home's value go back to it's pre-recession value anytime soon? Is now a good time to downsize? To answer those questions, homeowners should track these four current trends in the real estate market. Learn more......
It never dawned on Rolanda Perkins that she could be at risk for a heart attack. No one in her family had a history of heart disease. She was even exercising regularly for almost a year before it hit. So when she began feeling tightness in her chest, she chalked it up to indigestion...
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When we try to lose weight by cutting calories, our bodies seem programmed to resist by burning less energy. A new study at Oregon Health & Science University adds to the evidence that aerobic exercise is the best way to overcome the body's resistance to losing weight. Learn more......
The age of information saturation has made us all a little ADD, and more than a little overwhelmed and exhausted. No matter how hard we try to catch up there's always a backlog. So here's a suggestion: Don't even try. At least for a day. Read more...
Even if your marriage is made in heaven, things here on earth cost money. So how do you handle the sticky financial situations that will crop up from time to time? Here are ways to navigate three of the "stickier" money situations you might face in your quest for wedded financial bliss. Read more...
Conventional medical wisdom has been, the lower the cholesterol the better. But a new study finds that tailoring treatment by considering all a patient's risk factors for heart attack--such as age, family history, and smoking status--was more effective, and used fewer high-dose statins, than current strategies to drive down cholesterol to a certain target. Learn more......
Here's something to keep in mind the next time your flight's "15-minute" delay stretches to hours or you get stuck in the wrong security screening line: "it isn't so much what happens to you, it's how you deal with it."
Many of us spend so much energy putting off the tasks we find unpleasant, that we have little energy left to do the things we enjoy. Here's how to overcome the urge to avoid.
