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By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — Making New Year’s resolutions is easy. Keeping them is hard. Too often, we set resolutions to make sweeping, multistep changes that are well-intentioned but unrealistic. One year, I resolved to prep our family meals for the week every Sunday. I bought containers to store each meal, created a menu

By Kasandra Brabaw, Anastasia Buyalskaya, Angela Duckworth and Katy Milkman, CNN (CNN) — As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions, you may think that it takes 21 days of repeating an action for that action to become a habit. So, you set out to go to the gym for 21 days, thinking that by day

By Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Back-to-back celebrations with family and friends this December and into January — typically considered “the most wonderful time of the year,” as the classic song goes — can bring acute reminders of who’s missing from our holiday tables. As a trauma therapist in Washington, DC, specializing in grief and

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — This year, Google users in the United States wanted to know more about strep throat, how to lower cholesterol and what helps with bloating. Those were just some of the top-trending health-related questions searched on Google in the United States from January 1 to November 27, according to the

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Mowing the yard outside his home in Windham, Ohio, William D. Hickman discovered what he thought would make a delicious addition to his dinner. A beautiful handful of mushrooms had popped out of the shaggy green lawn. “As I’m mowing the ditch, I go by them three or four times,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in the United States. Mpox is a viral disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. In 2022, an outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus originated in Africa and

By Kristen Rogers and Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Gaslighting, breadcrumbing, gray rocking: With growing awareness of mental health has come the rise of “therapy-speak” in online discourse. The increasingly popular terms can capture the ways people treat us, or how we respond to such behavior. But the trend is “a double-edged sword,” said clinical

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — People over 50 living alone may be able to counter decline in their verbal cognition by adding a pet to their home, according to a new study. Losing the ability to easily find words and understand others are early signs of dementia, research has found. “Pet ownership may completely

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — There are lots of great reasons to decide to go “dry” in January and give up alcohol. Perhaps you imbibed a bit too much over the holidays or want to start a healthy routine and can’t afford the calories or the zap in energy and motivation that drinking can

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Starting January 1, a drug that thousands of patients depend on to help them breathe will disappear from pharmacy shelves, and doctors are concerned patients may have delays switching to alternatives and getting them covered by insurance. Manufacturer GSK has said it’s discontinuing the branded asthma inhaler Flovent, and

By Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — As the year wraps up, people have their sights on 2024 and what changes it will bring. The more enterprising may even be thinking of initiating changes in the form of resolutions or intentions. But for the less decisive, those can be hard to come up with; with so

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — If you want your low-carb diet to help you lose weight and keep it off, consider the quality of the food you eat, according to new research that compared five types of low-carb diets. People who ate an unhealthy, meat-based low-carb diet gained weight over time compared with those

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Health care became more hazardous for patients at hospitals purchased by private equity firms, a new study shows. The sweeping study, which was published Tuesday in the journal JAMA, looked at the rates of 10 serious adverse events associated with medical care at 51 hospitals before and after they

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Cognitive decline can begin years before signs of dementia set in, which for some can be as early as age 30, a condition known as young-onset dementia. Globally, it’s estimated nearly 4 million people ages 30 to 64 are living with the condition, according to a 2021 study, and

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — This was my year of appreciating bagels. I was in my kitchen after a long day of building garden beds, hauling bags of soil and chasing my dog when he got hold of a broccoli plant, and I was agonizing over the bagel in my hand. A voice in

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Emily Ryan’s life changed quite literally overnight when she was a freshman in college. She was studying for final exams and returned from the library around 10 p.m. She crept quietly to bed because her roommate was already asleep. Around 3 a.m., she woke up with intense pain radiating

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When Abby Eckel saw the small jewelry gift bag her husband gave her for her birthday, she thought she knew exactly what was inside — a ring with a morganite gemstone that she had requested. But when Eckel opened the package and saw a necklace instead, she couldn’t hide

By Brenda Goodman and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Delayza Diaz didn’t use her voice for the first time until she was 9 years old. For most of her life, she has communicated by vibrating the inner lining of her cheeks to form words, a process called buccal speech. Her mom, Lucero Diaz, called it