People who sleep late are more likely to have an unhealthy diet, according to results of a study being presented at SLEEP 2016 - the 30th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC, held in Denver, CO. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in every 3 Americans do not get enough sleep.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society suggest that people aged between 18-60 years should have at least 7 hours sleep a night in order to stay healthy. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE!

There is currently no cure for osteoarthritis. However, some steps can be taken to help manage the disease and improve its symptoms.
One of the most important steps is to keep a healthy body weight. People should maintain a healthy weight for many reasons, but the protection of the knee joints is one of the most important. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE!

Keeping fit may help prevent a wide range of cancers, suggests a new analysis of research from the United States and Europe. Researchers who pooled and analyzed data on 1.44 million people from 12 studies, finds those who were most physically active in their leisure time had a lower risk of developing 13 out of 26 types of cancer, compared with those who were the least active.
The international team of researchers - including investigators from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, MD, and the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, GA - reports the findings in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. READ ARTICLE HERE!

CLEVELAND CLINIC - Anyone who has tried to lose a substantial amount of weight knows that the true challenge often lies in keeping those shed pounds from creeping back on. According to Dr. Bartolome Burguera cf Cleveland Clinic, there are several factors that impact a person's ability to keep weight off for good.

One of the main factors is a person's basic metabolic rate, or how many calories the body burns while at rest. "Because you start losing weight and the basic metabolic rate goes down from 2,000 to 1,600, so unless you burn 400 calories extra exercising or you eat 400 calories less, you will not be able to continue to lose weight," Dr. Burguera says. READ ARTICLE HERE!