by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
Childhood is the ideal time to build strong bones. However, there are always things you can do—even as an adult—to help keep your bones healthy. And it’s particularly important to do these things as you age. Our bones are in a constant state of being broken down and...
by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
High blood pressure (hypertension) is widespread, affecting approximately 25% of the population. If the condition remains untreated, it can lead to more serious health problems such as heart disease, stroke and kidney disease. However, there are many facts about high...
by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
If you’ve ever noticed that the car ahead of you in traffic seems to be driving itself, there’s a good chance that the person driving it is elderly. Shrinking in height as we age is quite normal, and some people start to get shorter starting at about the age of 30....
by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
How many times did we hear from our parents when we were children, “sit up straight”? Our parents were not telling us to do this merely to keep us from looking like a boiled noodle. Good posture is important for a variety of health reasons as well. It helps us to...
by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
The notion that a restricted-calorie diets can increase our lifespan has been around since an experiment that was done on rats in 1934. During this experiment, rats were fed a diet that contained an adequate allowance of all key nutrients but a sharply reduced number...
by Active Family new | Dec 22, 2025 | Articles
While many of us struggle to keep the amount of fat in our bodies to a minimum, there is one type of fat that we may want to encourage more of. Brown fat (also called brown adipose tissue) is our friend in that it has the ability to burn calories at a great rate,...
