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15 Tips to Prevent or Reduce Heartburn
Elevate your head, eat smaller meals, and 13 other ways to ease heartburn.
Natural Ways to Fight Heartburn
Are your eating and drinking patterns giving you heartburn? Are over-the-counter medications making it worse? Here’s how to find out — and fix acid reflux for good.
Reclaim Your Circadian Rhythms to Get Your Groove Back
Dr. Frank Lipman on why finding your body’s natural sleep cycle and circadian rhythms is the key to strength, vitality and wellness.
The Danger of Underwire Bras
Research suggest a dangerous link between underwire bras and cell-phone radiation.
Avoiding the Fall Funk
I shouldn’t be surprised and yet every year I begin October thinking I’m going to be able to outwit the darkness.
How to Raise Your Food “Pleasure Quotient”
Expert advise on how to overcome feelings of frustration or shame when it comes to eating.
The Joy of Eating Well
Here are tips on how to cultivate a healthy attitude towards foods — and get rid of the “good food”/”bad food” syndrome.
How Just 20 Minutes of Exercise Sparks Positive Changes in Your DNA
The genetic benefits of exercise happen far quicker than you think.
Letting the Sunshine In: Susan Zemke’s Success Story
How correcting a serious vitamin-D deficiency helped one woman transform her life.
Ghosts in Your Machine
Our bodies are haunted by millions of microbes, many of which are essential to our health. Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl discusses how fermented foods help keep those mysterious little critters happy.
How to Deal With the Fear of Bad News From Your Doctor
How to cope with a scary health diagnosis — without getting caught up in the chaos of fear.
The Case for Intermittent Fasting
How intermittently halting our food intake can improve health and metabolism — with zero risk of starvation.
The Older, the Better
Wise advice on how to get healthier, happier and more attractive with age.
Ready to Glow: A Q&A With Latham Thomas
Maternity lifestyle expert and author Latham Thomas on the importance of love, self-care and boundaries during pregnancy and after.
How Rudeness at Work Affects Your Spouse and Their Job
The far-reaching implications of working in a hostile environment.
Money, Politics and Health Care: A Disease-Creation Economy
Dr. Mark Hyman examines the connections of politics, money, and our healthcare system — and what we can do about it.
“Why Is Thinner Better?” A Woman’s Journey to Self-Acceptance After Thyroid Surgery
I say these words with all sincerity and conviction: If we are eating well, training smart, managing stress, and getting enough quality sleep, we should accept our bodies as they come.
Hormone Stress Test
How a cortisol test can help you evaluate whether your stress levels are cause for concern.
How Stress Impacts Your Metabolism — and How to Restore Balance
These days life is moving faster than ever. You’re typing on your laptop, talking to someone on the phone, while having a secondary conversation with someone else physically right in front of you.
The Benefits of Creating a Healthy Workplace
Employers who offer forward-thinking workplace wellness programs not only have healthier, happier employees, they reap fiscal benefits, too.
How to Cope With a Passive-Aggressive Coworker
Licensed counselor Loriann Oberlin explains how to cut through the veiled anger and toxicity.