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Tips for a Healthy Road Trip
Eat well, move well, and rest well to make the most of your next road trip.
6 Factors that Affect Weight Loss
Conventional weight-loss strategies often fail because they don’t account for a host of intersecting factors that are unique in each of us. Here are the variables that matter most — and why.
The Workout: New Twists on Old Faves
Get strong, build power, and burn fat on your go-to cardio machine.
On the Trail to Machu Picchu
Our fitness editor’s “what if” curiosity leads to a transformational trek in the Andes.
Expert Answers: Why Should I Do Sprints?
Are including sprints in workouts worth it?
Expert Answers: Is there a right way to “train to failure”?
Fitness expert Meredith Butulis, DPT, MSPT, Life Time Academy instructor and fitness competitor, answers your question.
Fitness Fix: How to Engage Your Core
Two easy exercises to engage your core.
Marie Forleo: The Life You Want
Marie Forleo wants to help you build a life you love — by developing the gifts that are uniquely yours to give.
Fitness Fix: Building Better Ankle Mobility
Think you can’t squat because of a bad back? Tight hips? Weak knees? You may want to look lower down in the kinetic chain — the problem may just be tight ankles.
Expert Answers: What’s the Best Way to Build Biceps Strength?
Instead of biceps curls, rows or pull-ups might be the way to go.
The Power of a Pushup: Tyson Mayr
World traveler Tyson Mayr crusades for clean water in the Third World — and proves that simple acts can make a big difference.
Primal Inspiration
Experience Life’s fitness editor discovers that PrimalCon — an immersion into primal living in the modern world — involves more than just eating like a caveman.
Vegan Pumpkin-Spice Latte
This comforting cool-weather drink is a vegan, dairy-free, homemade alternative to the pumpkin-spice lattes that crop up at coffee shops each fall.
The Voice: Vani Hari
Activist-blogger Vani Hari — a.k.a. the Food Babe — on why universal access to healthy food is “a basic human right.”
The Forever Athlete
What 95-year-old track star Olga Kotelko can teach us about living and aging well.
9 Benefits of Eating Fermented Foods
Fermented foods boost the good bacteria in our guts, which makes us healthier, happier, and more resilient.
Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer
The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
10 Things You Need to Know About Food Dyes
At best, the dyes are aesthetic enhancers. At worst — and as many “real food” advocates claim — they are a public-health menace linked to behavioral problems and other consequences.
4 Ways Vegetables Improve Your Health
Doctors across the country are prescribing fruits and vegetables to their overweight patients. But the health benefits extend beyond weight loss.
Angela Sun: Explorer
The journalist, documentary filmmaker, and surfer talks about her passions for storytelling and protecting the environment.
The Psychological Downside of Labeling Obesity a “Disease”
The American Medical Association’s “disease” label appears to boost feelings of self-acceptance among obese people — but it may also undermine weight-loss efforts, a recent study suggests.