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Beth Newcomb

Extreme Heat Linked to Accelerated Aging in Older Adults, Study Finds (New York Times)

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New York Times featured a study by Eunyoung Choi and Jennifer Ailshire on how more days of excessive heat correlates with increased biological aging in older adults.  The widely covered study appeared in ABC News, New Scientist, New York Post, The Verge, Nature, ABC News (Australia), Mirror, The Sun, Talker, Parade, Chosun (South Korea), Bioengineer.org, and The Conversation.

Bolivian community with just 1% dementia and the ‘healthiest hearts in the world’ follow this diet (New York Post)

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New York Post featured a study coauthored by Andrei Irimia on how the Tsimané community, who live a pre-industrial lifestyle in the Bolivian Amazon, have the “healthiest hearts on the planet” and brains that age far more slowly than their Western counterparts. This may be due in part to an extremely active lifestyle as well as a high-fiber diet full of vegetables, fish and lean meats, the researchers noted.  “This ideal set of conditions for disease prevention prompts us to consider whether our industrialized lifestyles increase our risk of disease,” Irimia said.