Healthy Living

Eat Smart: Make a hearty-happy DASH for this diet

Apart from its dashing name, the DASH diet is … well, not too sexy.

You Docs: 7 steps to help you be happy

Like the treasures of the Sierra Madre, happiness sometimes seems more myth than reality. But we want to help you to pursue the real thing. You deserve true happiness and much of your emotional and physical health depends on it. Positive emotions cancel out stress-related risks such as heart disease and cancer, and make you younger.

Doc Talk: Give yourself a healthy heart for Valentine’s Day

Your heart beats about 100,000 times every day, which comes to 35 million times every year. That’s a lot of work for a vital muscle that we often take for granted.

Exergaming may offer older people cognitive benefits

Exergames — exercise combined with virtual reality — might give a cognitive boost to older people more than regular workouts, researchers have found.

Yoga – with a few twists

It’s 10:30 at night and like a typical college student, Julie McFarland is hanging out with her friends — at a yoga studio.

Debate continues over safety of parents, babies sharing a bed

CHICAGO — James Robinson will tell you the hardest part of his son’s death was having to face his fiancee.

10 ways to keep your brain healthy

Getting healthy is a top New Year’s resolution. But keeping your brain healthy as you age also should be a top priority.

Doc Talk: Heartburn can be a daily battle

Most people suffer from occasional heartburn, also called gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD. This often is resolved with over-the-counter anti-acid medication, avoiding overeating or limiting intake of specific foods. For some people, however, GERD can be a daily battle.

What causes reflux?

Eat Smart: Meatless breakfast wrap still offers plenty of protein

This Breakfast Berry Enchilada is a clever spin on a typical egg-meat-cheese wrap.

You Docs: Under the influence of a bad cold

If your nose looks like a radish and your eyes are more watery than chicken soup at a bad diner, the only equipment you should be operating is a thermometer. The common cold, it turns out, is an automobile accident waiting to happen. The sneezing, tearing, fever and puffy eyes make your reactions behind the wheel as slow and unsteady as a party-goer who’s pounded back several drinks, reports a UK team.