Maintain 5 Healthy Habits and Live Longer
According to a 2016 report from the World Health Organization (WHO), life expectancy globally is 71.4 years. That’s 73.8 years for females, and 69.1 years for males. A new study of Americans led by Harvard University has found that more than an additional decade could be tacked onto their life expectancy if they kept five […]
Tiny Protein Keeps Heart Beating in Time
The simple ‘thump-thump, thump-thump’ rhythm of a heartbeat can be quite deceiving. With each heartbeat or cardiac cycle, the heart pumps in blood and then pushes it back out. One half of the heart receives the deoxygenated (venous) blood used by our body and then sends it to our pulmonary system (lungs etc.) to again […]