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What are the Warning Signs of Orthorexia?
If you’re wondering whether your attitude toward food has become too restrictive, here are eight questions to ask yourself.
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession
A fixation on healthy eating can have unhealthy consequences. Discover how to identify the problem and reshape your relationship with food.
The Magazine They Said Would Never Fly
Our founding editor reflects on 20 years of Experience Life.
Understanding Emotional Biochemistry
Like it or not, emotions share some very real biochemical links with your nervous, endocrine, immune and digestive systems. Isn’t it time you learned something about how your body responds to what you feel — and vice versa?
Want to Reduce Stress? Eliminate Annoyances
Resolve to fix, change, organize, replace or otherwise deal with anything that has been driving you bonkers.
Bookends: Tips to Start and End Your Day Mindfully
The first and last moments of your day can steady or destabilize everything that comes in between. Are your mornings and nights propping you up, or tipping you over?
The Way of the Healthy Deviant
A rulebreaker’s guide to becoming a healthy person in an unhealthy world.
Revolutionary Act 37: Ignore Labels
Helpful tips for making sense of dubious food-marketing claims.
Revolutionary Act 36: Read Labels
Pay less attention to your food’s calorie count and focus more on the ingredients.
Revolutionary Act 35: Move It Out
Most of us would rather not talk about poop, but it turns out that what exits your body is just as important as what goes in.
Revolutionary Act 34: Go for Quality, Not Quantity
When it comes to eating, an ounce of wonderful is far better than a whole mess of mediocrity.
Revolutionary Act 33: Care Where Food Comes From
Why knowing your food’s history can motivate you to consume more selectively.
Revolutionary Act 32: Savor What You Eat
How you eat is as important as what you eat. Here’s why.
Revolutionary Act 31: Go Easy on the Sugar and Flour
These two ingredients have a starring role in most packaged foods we eat. More than any other culprit, they fuel our chronic-disease epidemic.
Revolutionary Act 30: Approach ADA Dietary Guidelines With a Healthy Dose of Doubt
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics — the country’s largest nutritional professional society — is sponsored by Big Food.
Revolutionary Act 29: Beware the USDA Food Guidelines
They’re a whole lot healthier for Big Ag and Big Business than for humans. Focus on vegetables and other whole foods, and don’t let the propaganda confuse you.
Revolutionary Act 28: Watch Your Reactions
Up to 70 percent of adults are intolerant of dairy, gluten, or other dietary triggers. Learn if you’re one of them. Digestive, skin, joint, energy, and mood problems may be your first clue.
Revolutionary Act 27: Have Breakfast
Let there be protein, produce, healthy fats, and fiber in it. A good breakfast wards off energy dips, brain fog, and afternoon cravings.
Revolutionary Act 26: Learn to Cook
Get a dozen healthy, whole-food recipes under your belt, and your lifewill be forever changed. Start by mastering one.
A Better Way to Roll Your Yoga Mat
Our founding editor offers a quick, simple technique that will keep your mat cleaner and in better shape.
Revolutionary Act 25: Don’t Fall for Fakery
Processed ingredients, sweeteners, and chemical additives inflame your body. Here’s how to keep it real.