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Washington Post
01-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Washington Post
Brown vs. white rice, aging and relationships: The week in Well+Being
You are reading our weekly Well+Being newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Hello and thank you for your interest in Well+Being! My name is Theresa Tamkins, and as the new editor at Well+Being, I'm excited to be in your inbox for the very first time. (All the better that it happens to be May Day, the unofficial first day of spring celebrated in many places around the world.)
Washington Post
24-04-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Earworms, intermittent fasting and aging well: The week in Well+Being
You are reading our weekly Well+Being newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Happy Thursday! This week, we're writing about catchy songs, intermittent fasting and lessons on aging from a 77-year-old runner who's as fit as a 25-year-old. Plus, we've got our weekly 'joy' snack. But before that … That song stuck in your head is never gonna give you up — unless you read this fun story by reporter Richard Sima, a former neuroscientist. He writes that catching an earworm, or having 'involuntary musical imagery' in psychological parlance, is exceedingly common and universal. In his piece, Richard writes about the science of how songs worm their ways into our heads and includes evidence-based ways of deworming yourself (musically). Warning: Some of the songs featured in the story are highly contagious. Check them out here! And if you have a song that often runs on repeat in your head, let me know. Most runners see substantial performance losses after they turn 70. Not Jeannie Rice, who just turned 77 and ran the Boston Marathon on Monday, reports Washington Post contributor Marlene Cimons. Marlene writes: Researchers are studying Rice to understand how humans can stay fit as they age, regardless of natural ability and the reduced physical activity often seen in older people, said Bas Van Hooren, assistant professor in nutrition and movement sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and one of the study authors. 'She exemplifies how consistent training, and perhaps favorable genetics, can partly defy conventional aging processes,' he said. To learn more about Rice, who started running at age 35, and lessons on staying fit as we age, read the story here. Our Ask a Doctor columnist is Trisha S. Pasricha, a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Many of my friends have been trying intermittent fasting for weight loss. Does it work, and is it better than other diets? Intermittent fasting has been shown to lead to some weight loss in several studies. But it might not work better than other dieting practices. When scientists compared intermittent fasting with simply eating fewer calories throughout the day, they found that intermittent fasting wasn't more effective in helping people shed pounds. Conventional dieting focuses on what you eat, but intermittent fasting focuses on the time you eat it — within an eight-hour window per day, for example. Because intermittent fasting doesn't typically require monitoring calories or changing what you eat, it can feel easier to stick with. Interest in the practice took off in the past decade or so, after experiments in animals showed that eating restricted to certain times had a profound impact on metabolic health and the microbiome. But in people, the weight-loss benefits linked to intermittent fasting may be because they took in less food in general — up to 550 fewer calories per day. Read her full response here. And use our Ask a Doctor form to submit a question, and we may answer it in a future column. Here are a few things that brought us joy this week. Let's keep the conversation going. We want to hear from you! Email us at wellbeing@ Want to know more about 'joy' snacks? Reporter and former neuroscientist Richard Sima explains. You can also read this story as a comic.
Washington Post
13-03-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Probiotics, aging and healthy snacks: The week in Well+Being
You are reading our weekly Well+Being newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Hello! Ready for Saint Patrick's Day on Monday? Over here, we're writing about healthy snacks, probiotics and accepting the changes that come with aging. Plus, we've got our weekly 'joy' snack. But before that …
Washington Post
07-03-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Longevity, Paxlovid and GMOs: The week in Well+Being
You are reading our weekly Well+Being newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Happy Thursday! Coming up is International Women's Day on Saturday and the end of daylight saving time on Sunday. Now, let's catch up on Well+Being: We've been writing about the scientific quest to reverse human aging, how Paxlovid may not reduce covid hospitalizations among older adults and that there's nothing inherently unsafe about genetically modified crops. Plus, we've got our weekly 'joy' snack. But before that …
Washington Post
06-03-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Theresa Tamkins named Editor of Well+Being
We're happy to announce that Theresa Tamkins is joining The Post as editor of Well +Being, our successful personal health coverage desk. Theresa's experience and expertise make her the perfect editor for this high performing team as we explore new opportunities to grow this important coverage area in WP Ventures. Theresa has more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, writer, editor and director of editorial teams covering health and science. Formerly the health editor at BuzzFeed News and editor-in-chief of Time Inc's Theresa is a specialist in wellness, nutrition, fitness, mental health, and chronic conditions. She has written for CNN, The Lancet, NBC News, WebMD, The Scientist, SELF Magazine, Healthday, and Reuters Health, among others. Most recently, she was director of health conditions at SELF. Before becoming a journalist, Theresa was a research scientist in immunology. She has a masters in journalism in the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting (SHERP) Program at New York University and a bachelor of science in biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Theresa is thrilled to join The Post and will move to Washington, DC from New York in the coming weeks. Please welcome her. Her first day is March 31.
