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How Does Your Sleep Schedule Affect Your Emotions?
Researchers found that subjects who went to sleep and got up earlier reported better moods.
The Gift of Life: Barbara Gibson’s Success Story
How a mom with debilitating knee pain found the strength to heal — thanks to her daughter’s generosity.
Should I Take Digestive Enzymes?
Suffering from heartburn, reflux, and other digestion challenges? Digestive enzymes can be an important step in finding lasting relief.
Strategies and Ideas to Get Your Kids Moving More
Gym classes are vanishing. Passive entertainments are multiplying. The country has an out-of-control obesity problem. How can we stop the next generation from getting lost in the shuffle.
Walking in Nature Can Change Your Brain
New research suggests that getting out into nature can help city dwellers — and others — improve their moods.
Inside Olga Kotelko’s Brain
New research offers the first glimpse at the effects of regular physical activity on a nonagenarian’s brain.
Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain
A neurologist explains the power of your microbiome to heal and protect your brain.
Going to Extremes: Patricia Moreno
After decades of desperate attempts to transform her body, Patricia Moreno discovered the key to lasting change lay elsewhere — in her own heart and mind.
On Faith and Fitness
Glutes and godliness. Biceps and the Bible. On first view, fitness and faith may seem a strange match. But for many people, spiritual motivations bring deeper meaning to their health and fitness pursuits, and prove to be a positive, pivotal factor in supporting them.
New Study: Surgery Not Best Option for Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Canadian researchers find mortality rates not affected by aggressive surgical intervention.
Dietary Shifts May Slow Brain Aging
A new study suggests a variation on the Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
Building Healthy Connections
How strengthening your personal relationships and hooking up with a healthy tribe may improve your health, happiness, and success.
What We Can Learn From the Four Happiest Places on Earth
Taking cues from the world’s happiest places and people, you might find a simple shift in your attitude could make all the difference in unlocking your own true bliss.
Your Fat May Be Making You Fatter
New study suggests that your fat tissue can send mixed signals to your brain when stress strikes.
Diversify Your Diet to Improve Your Health
A new study suggests that increasing the variety of the foods we eat could be key to avoiding type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Fitness Fix: Preventing Shin Splints
Three easy exercises to prevent shin splints.
FDA Bolsters Warning on NSAIDs
Strengthened warning of increased heart attack and stroke risk from use of certain prescription and over-the-counter pain relievers will be added to drug labels.
A Drop of Blood Can Reveal Every Virus You’ve Ever Had
The new VirScan test may be used to create vaccines, track disease outbreaks — and more.
Study Shows How High Heels Affect Muscle Development and Balance
Regular wearers of high heels may be sacrificing the health of their ankles.
Lyme Disease in the Limelight
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are taking a closer look at Lyme disease.
Basic Tenet Behind Atherosclerosis Treatment Challenged
Complications of hardening of the arteries are the No. 1 killer worldwide, but a new study challenges the long-held understanding of the disease.