Making a plan for preventative care and screenings is a great way to put your health first. Whether it’s keeping up with recommended vaccines or scheduling screening tests to detect potential problems early, there are different guidelines to stay on top of at different ages throughout your life. “If everyone followed our preventative health screenings, we would catch disease earlier. We would be able to treat it and be more successful,” Dr. Robert M. Biernbaum, chief medical officer for WellNow Urgent Care, told CBS News. “Instead of seeing end stage breast cancer, end stage colon cancer, we would catch them…

January 25, 2024 — Women who eat more plant protein in midlife may increase their odds of aging healthily, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Tufts University. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on January 17, 2024. The researchers analyzed health and dietary data from more than 48,000 women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study between 1984 and 2016. Healthy aging was defined as fewer or no chronic diseases, better physical mobility, and little cognitive decline. While eating protein in any form in midlife…