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How to Start a “Do-and-Dine” Fitness Group

Looking to improve the palatability of your fitness routine? Maybe you need a side of social interaction — and a standing date for dinner.

By Angela Pirisi

Community Fitness Tips

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How to Detox Your Life, Save Money, and Change the World

What’s best for our health and the planet can also be great for our bank accounts. All it takes is shifting how we spend our money and our time.

By Stacy Malkan

Detox Food Culture

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A Brew on the Wild Side

Sometimes the simplest questions can provoke the most complex and unpredictable answers.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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A Call for a Real Food Revolution

A U.S. congressman explains how lack of access to real food is at the heart of our nation’s health problems — and what we can do about it.

By Representative Tim Ryan

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Nestlé Saying Goodbye to Artificial Dyes

The company is poised to be the first major U.S. candy manufacturer to eliminate artificial food dyes and colors from products.

By Heidi Wachter

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Hidden Treasures

When it comes to the real value of vegetables, nutrition labels don’t begin to reveal the whole truth.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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12 Game-Changing Ideas About Health

12 big ideas that are shifting the way we think about health.

By Kristin Ohlson

Food Culture General Health

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Modern Miracle

Behold the beauty of the midwinter egg. May we never again take it for granted.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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How to Run an Ecosystem

My new hobby: aquaponics. This might just be the wave of the future — if we can figure out the finer points.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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Cheap Food, Big Bucks

Dreading the little birds-and-bees talk? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how telling your kids about food-industry profit margins can be just as awkward.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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10 Strategies to Help Give Up a Favorite Food

Deciding to forgo a food you've long savored presents practical and emotional challenges — even when you know it's for the best. Here's how to make it easier.

By Jon Spayde

Food Addiction Food Culture

Pilar Gerasimo

Making Friends With Your Food

Pilar Gerasimo on making sensible, sane choices in a food world as nutty and confusing as the one we live in now.

By Pilar Gerasimo

Columns Food Culture

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Kitchen Literacy: 10 Must-Have Cookbooks

After years of working in restaurants and cooking at home, James Beard Award–winning food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl dishes on her favorites.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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The Ethics of Eating

The implications of our food choices are far-reaching. The quandaries are real. How can we start eating our way to a better world?

By Elizabeth Millard

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Building Kitchen Confidence

EL's Heidi Wachter on the surprising rewards of learning to cook.

By Heidi Wachter

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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The Voice: Vani Hari

Activist-blogger Vani Hari — a.k.a. the Food Babe — on why universal access to healthy food is “a basic human right.”

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

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How Real Food Can Help Fight Poverty

U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan explains why food, health, poverty and social justice must be transformed together.

By Representative Tim Ryan

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Family Values à la Française

Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on why perhaps it’s time we stopped obsessing about how the French eat, and started emulating the way they live.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Family/Parenting/Kids Food Culture

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The Power of Precommitment to Overcome a Sweet Tooth

A study published in the science journal Neuron suggests that precommitment is more powerful than willpower.

By Experience Life Staff

Food Addiction Food Culture

Savoring Salmon

Savoring Salmon: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Enticing and unexpected ways to enjoy this super-healthy fish.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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Revolutionary Act 2: Buck Trends

Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s smart or good for you. Enlist fellow trend buckers — and create a trend of your own.

By Pilar Gerasimo