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Turf Wars: How Special Interests Manipulate Online Activism to Influence Health Narrative
How special interests concoct “grassroots” movements online, mobilizing mobs that help shape the public conversation about health.
5 Questions to Consider in Cultivating Healthy Friendships
Positive bonds support our happiness, but soured relationships may need to be re-evaluated. Here are five things to consider.
7 Ideas to Help You Stay Close With a Friend Who Moved Away
Maintaining relationships with friends and loved ones who live far away can be challenging. But you can bridge the gap — and perhaps become closer than ever.
Social Impacts of the “Always-On” Phone Culture
A new poll shows the changing social norms around cell-phone use and the challenges of maintaining mobile-phone etiquette.
Reach Your Fitness Goals With a Fitness Pact
A good fitness pact can help you (and a friend or two) achieve your health and fitness goals.
9 Strategies to Create a More Civil, Loving Marriage
Why are we so rude to our spouses, yet courteous, kind, and patient with complete strangers? Paying attention to good manners and small niceties may be the key to sustaining the vitality of your relationships.
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.
Revolutionary Act 14: Leverage Your Big “Whys”
Know the specific reasons your health matters to you. Write them down where you’ll see them daily.
How Introverts and Extroverts Can Talk to Each Other
Introverts and extroverts often struggle to communicate effectively. Here are some strategies that can help them connect.
6 Tips to Writing a Meaningful Thank-You Note
More than just good manners, it’s a slow-down practice that benefits the writer as much as the recipient.
The Undefeated Mind
Discover five big ideas that will help you develop a state of mind that sees all problems as solvable.
Partners in Grime
Gritty, military-inspired team adventures push your mental and physical limits. They may also redefine your idea of fun.
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.
Coffitivity: Bring the Coffee Shop to Your Cubicle
Grab your headphones — and possibly spark your creativity — to plug into the latest app that allows you to customize your office-space ambiance.
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.
5 Ways to Maintain and Spread Healthy Habits
By now we’ve heard that obesity is contagious. Well, the flip side of that is that healthy habits are contagious, too. Here’s how to build and share those habits with everyone around you.
As Food Industry Ditches BPA, Questions Emerge About Alternatives
Several food giants are gradually shifting away from BPA, but the alternatives may not be much better.
How Your Spending Habits Reflect Your Values and Support Your Energy
How our most intimate sense of self and our use of money reflect each other.
The Challenges of Weight-Based Bullying in Our Youth Culture
A new study finds adults believe fat stigma is the leading cause of childhood bullying.