Want to improve your family's eating habits without nagging, cajoling, threatening or bargaining with them? Then take this simple, if not necessarily easy, step: Eat meals together as often as possible.

It turns out that a number of studies show that the family that eats together eats better.

As the Baby Boomers in their 40s and 50s start looking to the future, they worry whether their own aging will bring one of its most feared consequences - mental decline.

From Harvard health experts, here are nine ways to keep your mind sharp as the golden years approach: