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The Benefits of League Sports
Think team sports are just for kids? You gotta be kidding! League sports can challenge even the fittest adults. If you’re looking for a way to toughen up your mind and muscle, take to the fields of play.
All About Hydration
Clear thinking, vibrant skin, healthy kidneys, and bountiful energy — they all depend on an adequate daily intake of water. Are you getting enough liquids? And if you work out, are you getting the right kind? Find out why you should look before you gulp.
Demystifying Detox
Detoxing is all the rage these days. But what’s the right way to approach it? Here’s everything you need to know to lose your toxins without losing your mind.
Worth Its Weight? The Debate About Birth Control and Weight Gain
If you use a hormonal method of birth control, you may gain weight. Then again, you may not. Your doctor can’t tell you. In fact, you could be the best expert on this weighty matter.
How to Merge Passion and Fitness for Lifelong Well-Being
Are you using your body for real — or going through the motions of working out with no practical purpose? Maybe it’s time you integrated your fitness pursuits with what you love and who you are.
The Lure, The Lie: Marketing “Healthy” Food
Salads! Yogurt! Grilled chicken! It sounds so alluring. But wherever there’s a massive marketing plan, there’s also often a catch. So is it safe to go back to the drive-thru?
Tips to Keeping Your Joints Healthy
Degenerative joint disease can cause debilitating pain, loss of mobility, and function, even severe disability. But what if you’re just starting to suffer from a little wear and tear? Here’s how to work with your joints — not against them.
Resolutions Workshop: Resolutions Reconsidered
For this year’s Resolutions Workshop, we gathered up four of our favorite personal-development experts and asked them to weigh in with how — and how not — to go about crafting New Year’s resolutions. They wound up recasting the whole resolutions process and sketching out a more successful, sustainable course for personal change.
Weight Loss 101
Feel like you’re failing at weight loss? Forever stuck in the remedial class? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
How to Teach Your Child Healthy Eating Habits
How to play the right role in your child’s eating choices.
Family Time: How to Find It, How to Make It
There’s nothing more satisfying than spending time with the ones you love best. So why is it so hard to pull off?
Resolution Recovery
Remember those resolutions you made six months ago? Maybe you’d rather not. But why forgive and forget when you can fix and forge ahead? We’ll show you how.
The Diet Dilemma
Every body is unique, and yet most eating plans promise results for everyone. Sure, you want to eat right, but what’s right for you?
Why Your Gut Health Matters
There’s a whole universe of bacteria and fungi inside your body, particularly in your intestinal tract. The good news? A lot of them are your friends.
The Nurtured Heart Approach for Managing Difficult Children
Is medication the only way to deal with a difficult child? The nurtured heart offers an empowering alternative.
A Good Long Look
Take a moment to scrutinize your bath and beauty products. Their ingredient labels may reveal some ugly truths.
Resolution Workshop: Become Your Best Self
Designing your best self takes vision. Becoming your best self takes guts. Here’s how to do both — with confidence.
Owning Your Health
Your body is your most valuable piece of personal property. Shouldn’t you be the one in charge of keeping it safe and sound?
Coming Home to Your Foodshed
Look closely into the complex implications of making the world your supermarket, and you’ll likely gain a new appreciation for the advantages of eating closer to home.
6 Foundations of Health
Scrape off all the crazy hype, jargon, and mixed messages usually associated with health and fitness, and you’re left with the important stuff — which really isn’t so complicated after all.
What Is Affluenza?
It’s an epidemic that’s sweeping the nation and infecting millions of American consumers with an insatiable desire for more. Have you got the bug?