Lifestyle

In our obsessive quest to improve its superficial traits, we often forget that our skin is our body’s largest organ — and an incredibly hard worker. Discover how your skin reflects and affects the state of your health, and what you can do to keep your skin looking and feeling its best.

Want your little ones to grow up knowing how to cook? Serve up a healthy dose of food literacy, starting now.

Your health depends on a complex, connect-the-dots network of variables that make up your ecosystem and the systems that sustain it. Discover the keys to keeping both you and your planet healthy — by following nature’s models, and honoring life’s connections.

Could your neighborhood be contributing to your weight gain? Researchers are digging deeper into evidence that suggests where you live may be essential to attaining good health, fitness, and personal well-being.

The images, sounds and words you absorb can influence your well-being and alter your view of reality. Is it time you reconsidered your media-intake habits?

If the thought of pounding the pavement makes you want to head for the hills, trail running may offer profound appeal. Find out why millions of runners are taking to the trails.

Eco-friendly home furnishings and building materials can help make your home a healthy one.

Whether you work for a living or live for your work, managing your physical health and fitness may be more critical to your career than you realized. Find out why the shape you’re in can make or break your success.

Office parties. Vending machines. Desktop candy jars. Power lunches. They can spell nutritional disaster for the average working person. Learn how you can sidestep fattening fare and feel better — starting now.

Good health, at core, is less a destination than life-enhancing journey. But if there is any clear path toward the promised land of healthy living, it begins not on any treadmill or diet plan, but on the fertile ground of our own thoughts, assumptions and beliefs.

Gearing up to write another mega-list of ways to make yourself better? Don’t! Instead, chart your course toward real goal mastery.

Imagine if everything went the way you wanted: your workouts, your relationships, your grandest career ambitions. Visioning can bring your life goals into clearer focus – and help you make them a reality.

The success of your fitness goals depends, in large part, on the soundness of your fitness strategy. You do have a fitness plan, don’t you? Here’s how to get one, fast — or how to make your current plan even better.

Ever worry that your investments in certain stocks and mutual funds aren’t meshing with your personal values? Socially Responsible Investing offers an alternative — and surprisingly good returns.

The perfect dish for your holiday event? Nutritious, tasty, satisfying nuts.

Still holding a grudge? Here’s how to make peace with those who may have wronged you – and find more peace for yourself in the process.

More than a decade ago, authors Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez helped launch the voluntary-simplicity movement with their ideas for living more richly — by spending less. Today, for many, that penny-wise approach seems smarter than ever.

There’s a quiet subculture of outdoor enthusiasts who prefer muscle power to motorized recreation — and they’re beginning to make some noise.

For centuries, proponents of meditation have hailed its potential for healing body and mind. Now, science is backing a growing number of those claims.

A generation ago, kids learned about the natural world by going out to play. Today, many have virtually no experience with the unadulterated out-of-doors. Is this separation making our kids sick?