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12 Strategies for Self-Care While Social Distancing
Here are some tips for staying sane during the COVID-19 outbreak.
14 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Airborne Toxins
Here are some simple changes to reduce pollution exposure — and improve your lung health.
Take a Deep Breath: Understanding Lung Health and Immunity
Our lungs are essential to life — and our immunity. Learn what you can do to support them in the face of increasing air pollution — plus, lung-healing foods.
Ingredients to Avoid in Personal-Care Products
Looking for safe and non-toxic shampoos, lotions, and other personal-care products? Try to avoid these ingredients.
How Climate Change Leads to Nutrient Decline
Global warming is reducing nutrients in wheat, rice, beans, and more.
How to Detox Your Body Safely and Effectively
The craze for fasting and cleansing has produced some fantastic claims, and some decidedly mixed results. Here’s how to separate the hype from the reality — and safely enjoy the benefits of a cleaner, happier body.
Community Counts: The Power of Creating Social Capital
Rebuilding a sense of neighborliness has become its own revolutionary act. Here’s why reconnecting with neighbors and fellow citizens is important.
What You Wear Can Affect Climate Change
An interview with eco-fashion pioneer Marci Zaroff on the perils of commercial cotton farming.
New Blood Pressure Guidelines: Experts Weigh In
We asked some trusted experts to weigh in on the new guidelines expanding the definition of high blood pressure. Here’s what they had to say.
A Whiff of Good News
Industry giant Unilever opts to reveal fragrance chemicals in all of its personal-care brands.
LIFE, UNEDITED: How the Body Keeps Score
A book by renowned trauma expert Bessel Van der Kolk, MD, explains how trauma lives in the body — and why the body needs to be engaged in recovery.
How to Reboot Your Body’s Alarm System
Is your body’s survival response stuck in the “on” position? Aviva Romm’s new book, The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution, explains how (and why) to locate the off switch.
10 Meditations for the Workplace
Consider these mindful approaches to finding more peace and happiness at the office.
The 4 Traits of Well-Being
Well-being is not simply the result of good genes or good luck, says pioneering researcher Richard Davidson, PhD. It’s a skill we can cultivate.
Why Kids Should Talk to Strangers
A new study shows that brief interactions with strangers make people feel better.
A Better Breakup
Senior editor Courtney Helgoe offers a little background on “conscious uncoupling.”
Indulge Your Wanderlust
Part yoga festival, part rave, the Wanderlust Festival feeds the mind, body and spirit — well into the wee hours.
Slow Medicine’s Approach to a Better Death
Senior editor Courtney Helgoe on Slow Medicine and the importance of choice in treating chronic or terminal illnesses.