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What Are the Health Benefits of Quercetin?

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Quercetin can help with allergies, brain health, heart health, and more. It can easily be incorporated into your healthy eating routine.

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Can Quercetin Relieve Your Seasonal Allergies?

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Learn how this common nutrient can provide relief.

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3 Strategies to Ease Financial Stress

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Two financial experts share their insights about how to relieve the effects of financial stress and when to seek help.

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Pro Gravel Cyclist Sarah Sturm on Winning, Losing, and the Value of Rest

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

One of the country’s top gravel racers shares her approach to riding, competing, and the valuable lessons gravel racing has taught her about life.

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What Is Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Testing?

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

The ANS controls the body’s involuntary bodily functions, such as breathing, and dysregulation of the ANS may reflect an underlying disease. Could this testing become part of your annual check-up?

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5 Healthy-Living Experts Share Their Strategies for Using Tech Mindfully

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

We reconnected with five of our past cover-story personalities for insights on building healthier habits with our devices.

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How to Talk With Kids About Climate Change

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Kids are vulnerable to climate anxiety. Here’s how to talk to them about what climate change might mean for their lives.

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4 Strategies to Teach Empathy to Children

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Use these tips to help instill empathy early on.

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8 Ways to Rediscover Empathy

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Our ability to feel compassion for others helps us survive and thrive. Learn how to feel empathy without burning out.

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6 Strategies to Cope With Climate-Change Anxiety

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Here’s how to move beyond fear, overwhelm, and anger — and respond with your emotional well-being intact.

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5 Rules for Gathering

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Great gatherings don’t usually happen by chance — they’re created with care. These five tips can make holiday get-togethers both meaningful and fun.

Rich Roll

Voicing Change: Rich Roll

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Ultra-endurance athlete, author, and podcaster Rich Roll reflects on breaking free of limitations, trusting your instincts, and creating a vibrant life.

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How to Take a Micro-Getaway

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

We could all use a little R&R, especially as autumn ramps up. Try these ideas to get out of the house for fun and restorative mini vacations.

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Are the Alkaloids in Nightshades Bad for You?

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Most people tolerate the alkaloids just fine, but these toxin-containing compounds may trigger health issues in others.

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CHANGING LIVES: Ryan Jurgensen

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

How choosing fitness helped one woman rebuild her resilience.

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CHANGING LIVES: Ken Zylstra

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Reflections on trail life, perseverance, and gratitude.

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CHANGING LIVES: Ali Sorour

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

How choosing fitness helped one man cope with the grief of losing his wife of more than 40 years.

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How to Make Nightshades More Digestible

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Nightshade vegetables and fruits are nutrient-dense foods, delivering important antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Learn why these foods can be great for you — and how you can mitigate their effects if they bother you.

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How to Navigate Nightshade Foods

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Are nightshades bad for you? For most people, these foods are a healthy part of a varied diet. But for others, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and potatoes can be problematic.

Juliet and Elena Porras and their Life Time trainer.

Strength Times Two

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

One woman’s search for strength leads to her daughter’s personal power, too.

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How to Get Your Kids in the Kitchen

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

It’s never too early — or too late — to introduce your kids to the life skills learned in the kitchen.

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