True Health Institute

Eating more natural, unprocessed food, keeping active and having a good social life are all ways you can fight off dementia as you age.

Happiness likely has positive effects not only for your mood but also your lifespan.

Feeling happy can significantly increase your longevity.

In fact, happier individuals had a 3.7% reduction in early death over a 5-year study period.

When you hear stories of the 10,000-calorie diet that some professional athletes consume, it can seem like an active, calorie-burning lifestyle can remove any need for us to monitor what we eat.

This could not be further from the truth. Our individual metabolism determines how many calories we burn at rest and while we exercise: If we eat more calories than we burn on a consistent basis, our bodies will accumulate these extra calories as fat regardless of the amount of exercise that we do.