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THURSDAY, Nov. 12, 2020 (HealthDay) — Vitamin D, fish oil supplements and weight training have long been touted for their health benefits, but for healthy seniors, none of them — either in combination or alone — boosts physical or mental performance or prevents broken bones, Swiss researchers report. For three years, they tracked more than

Mike Parry’s Damascene moment came when his daughter asked him for a football and a tennis racquet for Christmas, and it occurred to him that he was in no shape to kick or hit a ball around. Up to that moment, the 47-year-old hadn’t given much thought to his health. “Despite the fact that I

At his heaviest, Dan Witmer weighed 260 pounds — which was helpful when he was playing football. But once it became apparent he wouldn’t be going pro, he resolved to get lean. “Once I decided, OK this weight is no longer beneficial to me because I’m not playing football, I started to have issues losing

“I was 30, more than 270 pounds, and it was a burden,” says Paul Eulette, now 33. Weight crept on slowly, starting in his teens, “partly from the emotional comfort I got from my family’s favorite Caribbean dishes and partly due to the cultural norm of overindulgence in food,” he says. By age 30, “I