Want to live a very long and healthy life? Researchers with the New England Centenarian Study have identified the two personality traits that could help you get there.

A drink a day for people over 55 substantially reduces the risk of premature death, according to a study published in the March issue of The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

What’s the ideal body weight? To find out, researchers at the University of Oxford looked at body mass index and longevity in a vast analysis of 900,000 adults. Read this before you reach for that sugary snack.

The nation’s efforts to clear the air of pollution are paying off big time, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Americans today live an extra five months, thanks to improvements in air quality achieved over the past few decades, the study found. In the cities that made the biggest improvement in air quality, life expectancies climbed a full ten months.

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age,” Lucille Ball famously quipped. She may have been more right than she realized.

For years, investigators have known about a sure-fire way to put the brakes on aging and, in some cases, almost double lifespan. But are you willing to try it?

Chocolate…wine…blueberries…sweet potatoes. They’re all on the menu at the Longevity Cafe.

The past century has witnessed an unprecedented increase in life expectancy. But all you have to do is visit an extended care facility—AKA nursing home—to wonder if those extra years are always worth living.