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Can Grapes Help Prevent Age-Related Blindness?

Can eating grapes slow or help prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a debilitating condition affecting millions of elderly people worldwide?

Beat Dry Winter Skin

by Jonathan Galland

Winter conditions such as cold dry wind can remove vital moisture from the skin, leaving it dry, itchy, red and cracked.

Creature comforts such as hot showers or toasty warm rooms can dry out the skin even more. My recent experience is an example of winter dry skin: hot showers left me itchy and scratching. Scratching can lead to marked and hurt skin—ouch!

48 Million Americans Have Hearing Loss

Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers and published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

The findings, thought to be the first nationally representative estimate of hearing loss, suggest that many more people than previously thought are affected by this condition.

How Antioxidants Fight Aging

by Dr. David Perlmutter

Turn on the television, open a magazine or listen to the radio and in short order you will no doubt be exposed to an advertisement extolling the virtues of some newly discovered exotic fruit juice that has the highest antioxidant content on the face of the earth. You may wonder — why all the hype? What is the benefit of an antioxidant?

Protein for Postmenopausal Women

Dieting postmenopausal women who want to avoid losing muscle as they lose fat should pay attention to a new University of Illinois study.

Adding protein throughout the day not only holds hunger pangs at bay so that dieters lose more weight, it keeps body composition—the amount of fat relative to muscle—in better proportion.

A-Peeling Health Benefits of Apples

Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong

In search of a way to prevent the muscle wasting that comes with illness and aging, researchers have landed a natural compound in apples that might just do the trick.