Unlock Your Fitness Potential as a Master’s Athlete
Wine and cheese aren't the only things that get better with age. Thanks to masters divisions in many sports, older athletes are finding fun new ways to get fit.
Strength in Numbers
This past January, I celebrated my 40th birthday. And thus, I've spent much of the year noticing what it feels like to utter those potentially charged words in a matter-of-fact way: I'm forty.
Toughing It Out
For as short as everybody likes to remind us that life is, in truth, if we're blessed with good health and good luck, it goes on for a good long while. And all the way along, it's filled with twists and turns, steep hills, long plateaus, and surprises of all kinds.
Pulling Together
We tend to think of the quest to improve our health and fitness as a solitary endeavor. We imagine it’s something we have to do, and take responsibility for, all on our own.
Expert Strategies for Getting Your Family to Eat Healthier
Getting your family to eat right can be tricky. Here are the clever tactics — and expert wisdom — that can help you rise to the top 5 challenges.
Heidi Swanson’s Groovy Goodness: 3 Delicious Recipes
Once derided as hippie food, millet, amaranth, quinoa and other healthful ingredients can be combined to create delicious meals for us all. Chef Heidi Swanson shows us how.
Learning to Read Labels
Help your kids decode food packaging and labels and you'll equip them with a healthy-living skill they can use forever. And you might notice less whining — starting now.
Couples That Play Together, Stay Together
Having fun with your partner can bring you closer — and keep you closer over time.
Passing It On: Erin O’Brien
Exercise specialist Erin O'Brien embodies her mission to empower healthy moms and healthy kids.
How to Have a Better Birth: Exploring Healthy and Safe Birthing Options
Medical interventions have their place. But simpler, healthier birthing options abound — and they're becoming more popular. Want to make your pregnancy and labor as safe and empowering as possible? Consider your choices, including the birthing partners, plans, and environments that suit you best.
Overcoming 4 Common Fitness Obstacles for New Moms
Having trouble fitting fitness into your new mom life? Here's how to create a fresh routine.
Teach Your Children Well
We love our children. We worry about our children. And, of course, we always want what’s best for them. But sometimes, by acting out of our instinctive desire to help our kids every step of the way, I believe we wind up doing them a disservice.
Eat It Raw!: 5 Recipes From Charlie Trotter
Tired of toiling over a hot stove or settling for microwaved meals? Try food in its uncompromised, unadulterated state, and you may never go back.
Garlic: Recipes, Techniques, and More
With its robust, complex flavor and healthful qualities, garlic can add zest to any meal – and help ward off disease.
How to Eat Wild Foods in the Modern World
If you're seeking the truest, most powerful foods on Earth, look to your prehistoric palate.
On the Edge: Will Gadd
Adventurer Will Gadd scales rocks and kayaks choppy waters to deepen his connection with nature – and to spread the message that outdoor spaces are worth saving.
Discovering Your Strengths
When we stop focusing on our weaknesses and start playing to our strengths we can transform our lives.
Wilderness Lessons: Developing Outdoor Survival Skills
Can you make a fire without matches? Build a shelter with no tools? Track a small animal across a forest? At today's wilderness and survival schools, these skills aren't lost arts. They're tomorrow's lesson plans.
How to Start Olympic Weightlifting
Looking for a time-efficient workout that builds muscle power and functional fitness? Then give Olympic-style weightlifting a try.
Explore Your Options
When I was about 12 years old, I saw the 1971 film Harold and Maude for the first time, and I, like many others, found myself changed by it.
Routine Inspection
It’s interesting that in a society fixated on adventure and excitement, so many of us choose to lead lives defined by deeply entrenched routines. In fact, I suspect our vicarious fixation on others’ thrill rides is likely fueled by our real-life tendency toward mindless repetition.