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Training to Pass Key Longevity Tests? The Best Way Is More Fun than Plain-Old Exercise.

Playing a sport is the most fun and efficient way to train your brain and body for the long haul. Here's the science showing why many sports beat "closed-skill" exercise.

Walking is good for you. But it's missing something for longevity.

A brisk walk helps break up sedentary time, but if you’re middle-aged, fit and aiming for a long healthy life, recent research points to a missing ingredient.

George Washington’s Second Act: The Real History Happens at an “Advanced Age”

Much of what Washington is remembered for happened after he thought his prime had passed, though his second act failed to resolve his biggest moral contradiction.

Should We Have Midlife Doctors?

Pediatrics is for kids. Geriatrics is for seniors. But medicine has no clear home for the health care nomads of middle-age. Is it time for mediatrics?

What's a Midlife Superager?

Meet a 50-year-old whose midlife improvement challenges the rules of aging

4 Half-Truths of Public Health Messaging

Our cliches miss the mark on disease prevention

The Walkabout, Midlife Edition

Sure beats a midlife crisis

How to Survive the Sandwich Generation: Put Your Kids to Work

Midlife is primetime for creating efficiencies.

Midlife Today Looks Nothing Like 10 Years Ago

Old Scripts for Health, Work and Family Are Broken

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