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Okay.  So you wanna know the next news-breaking way to stay young? Climb stairs. That's just what a new study found at Concordia University.  Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain’s health too — and that education also has a positive effect, according to newswise.com. Scientists at Concordia University’s Montreal-based PERFORM Centre have found that the more flights of stairs a person climbs, and the more years of school a person completes, the “younger” their brain physically appears. The researchers found that brain age decreases by 0.95 years for each year of education, and by 0.58 years for every daily flight of stairs climbed — i.e., the stairs between two consecutive floors in a building. There already exist many ‘Take the stairs’ campaigns in office environments and public transportation centres, say researchers. This study now shows that older adults ne...

That's the question The Atlantic asked today in its story on the effects The Affordable Care Act will have on our healthcare . The reality is that this earlier death rate may be affecting all of us, to some degree, but mostly women in the South and West without a high school diploma.  These women often do not have access to good healthcare, if any at all. The Atlantic reports, "In March, a study published by the University of Wisconsin researchers David Kindig and Erika Cheng found that in nearly half of U.S. counties, female mortality rates actually increased between 1992 and 2006, compared to just 3 percent of counties that saw male mortality increase over the same period." Various studies have put this earlier death rate down to "growing health disadvantages," which have disproportionately had an impact on women over the past three decades. Another study in July found "that inequality in women’s health outcomes steadily increased between 1985 and ...