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Healthy aging: dealing with diabetes 09/14/2015 10:00am • Getting older doesn't have to mean getting diabetes, but it does mean your risk increases. The majority of Americans with Type 2 diabetes are over 60, and rates rise sharply with age. While 11 percent of middle-aged adults have diabetes, it's nearly 22 percent for seniors 65 and older, according to 5 Things New Managers Get Wrong 09/13/2015 08:00pm • Managing is no cakewalk. It's more like a marathon, and all too often, organizations promote someone to manager but give that person little support. It would be like if Jill were a decent runner, so the company signed her up for a 26.2-miler next week, without providing training, strategy or even r Diabulimia: When Diabetes Meets an Eating Disorder 09/13/2015 08:00pm • Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 5, Asha Brown was aware that the insulin she required daily to survive could also invite an unpleasant side effect: weight gain. By the time she was a teenager, she began skimping on calories, doing everything she could to stay below 1,600 per day. Come college Is 'Pre-emptive Eating' Your Undoing? 09/10/2015 08:00pm • It's often said that the best offense is a good defense, and this generally holds true in the realm of healthy eating and weight management. If you know, for example, that you always get hungry at 4 p.m. but don't plan to have something healthy available to eat, you're vulnerable to the office ve How Apple Product Launches May Change Your ETF 09/10/2015 08:00pm • Apple-mania is back. Apple (ticker: AAPL) did what it does every September, placating fanboys and stirring Wall Street as it unveils its latest lineup of gadgets. This year's big items: The iPhone 6S, a new Apple TV and a souped-up iPad Pro. Next up: The punditry. After all, Apple is off some 13 p From DDT to BPA: How Do Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Affect Our Health? 09/09/2015 08:00pm • Endocrine-disrupting chemicals -- substances or mixtures that alter the function of the endocrine system in an unhealthy way -- are found everywhere on our planet, exposing many living things, including people, to possible harm. These include a wide variety of chemicals, such as pesticides, environ Women experiment with Marine combat jobs; results mixed 09/09/2015 05:47pm • WASHINGTON — A nine-month experiment intended to gauge whether combat jobs should be open to women Marines provided mixed results. Although some women completed the two-part assignment intended to mimic combat conditions and performed well, others found the work grueling and physically challeng Business Schools Give Undergraduate Programs a Liberal Arts Twist 09/08/2015 08:00pm • It used to be that the typical undergraduate business school program stuck pretty closely to a narrow curriculum heavily weighted in management, sales and finance, or "learning how to do business," says Jim Otteson, executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Fores Weight-loss experts share the most common mistakes clients make 09/08/2015 07:00am • Everyone makes mistakes, right? Yep, and, when it comes to weight loss, most of us make the same ones. Here, nutritionists, trainers and weight-loss physicians reveal the biggest flubs in their clients' slim-down, shape-up strategies. Learn from their mistakes, because, chances are, you're making so Is a Vitamin or Mineral Deficiency Making You Tired? 09/07/2015 08:00pm • You already know a lack of iron can drag you down. But experts say numerous vitamin and mineral deficiencies can contribute to fatigue. If left unchecked, the same deficiencies that make it hard to keep your head up can lead to long-term health consequences -- from brittle bones to impaired brain f 7 Reasons No One Likes You at the Gym 09/07/2015 08:00pm • Sweatiquette 101Gyms these days. If you haven't stepped a sneakered foot in one in a while, we'll forgive you. But unless you brush up on your fitness facility formalities, your soon-to-be fellow patrons might not. From protocols for snapping fitspirational selfies to locker room decorum, "things ha 8 foods that make you unproductive at work 09/07/2015 03:00am • If you have a desk job, I'm sure by now you've heard the mantra, "sitting is the new smoking." And, if you're like most working Americans, you're at that job for far more hours than you're playing sports, chasing after your kids or otherwise moving. That's why today, more than ever, it's importan 8 Tips for Traveling Around the World for Less 09/06/2015 08:00pm • The idea of taking a trip around the world might sound like an impossible dream if you're not rich, but there are practical ways to do it. You might have to live with fewer belongings and skip fancy hotels and meals. But who knows? That might just add to the adventure.If you decide to take the chall 'A Walk in the Woods' is a 'Wild' buddy-comedy hike 09/04/2015 03:06am • WASHINGTON — Who could have guessed that a pair of hiking biographies would cross genres to provide some of the more compelling Hollywood character studies of the past nine months? Last year, Reese Witherspoon earned a much deserved Oscar nomination by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail i Which Are Better: ETFs or ETNs? 09/03/2015 08:00pm • It's hard to find an investor who isn't at least familiar with the term " exchange-traded fund" by now. ETFs assets now sit at about $3 trillion worldwide, and Goldman Sachs believes that number will expand to $6 trillion in just five years. Less known (and understood), however, are exchange-trade