Stephen Perrine

Building muscle is crucial for your overall health, including staying strong, keeping your weight down and preventing heart disease and diabetes.

For more than 25 years, Al Roker, 69, has been forecasting the weather — and investigating the latest trends in nutrition and weight loss — for millions of Today viewers. He’s also known for his personal courage in documenting his own weight-loss journey and health challenges, from his gastric bypass in 2002 to battles with prostate cancer, blood clots and, this year, a knee replacement. We caught up with him at the farmers market in Hudson, New York, where he’s been a regular shopper for more t…

Renown restaurateur and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich, 76, knows how to save money on food. It’s an instinct that dates back to her youth, when stretching out the family food dollar was critical. Today the restaurateur and television host, whose latest book is Lidia’s From Our Family Table to Yours, can afford to buy the absolute best ingredients she can find, but she still loves to save by using alternative cuts of meat, always storing leftovers— and growing whatever she can herself. Much of…

Who better than professional foodies to help us make our meals go from drab to delicious. Here’s advice from six experts on using what you have around the house to make a meal (hello tortillas!), shortcuts to save you time, what items are worth getting fresh and more. Danny Trejo, 79, actor and restaurateur Trejo’s growing restaurant empire — he now operates a chain of five Trejo’s Tacos — demonstrates that healthy food can be fast, easy and, most important, affordable, he says. Growing up, affo…

To help you stay on top of your biggest risks, AARP looked at eight of the leading killers of people ages 50 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and quizzed the top scientists in each area for their best advice. Cancer Let’s start with the bad news: “By the time you reach 50, you’ve got well over 70 billion cells with cancer-associated mutations in your body,” says James DeGregori, deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. And that num…

The 100 trillion microbes in your belly can keep you happy and healthy—if you feed them right.

What’s in Their Cart? Grocery Shopping With Danny Trejo, Al Roker and Others