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5 Strategies for Sustaining Your Weight Loss Journey
Losing weight is an impressive achievement, but the journey doesn’t end there. Here’s how to maintain your weight loss for good.
Paleo Vs. Vegan
Both Paleo and vegan diets have become popular in the last few years. But what are their pros and cons, and how might they affect your health? We assembled a roundtable of experts to make sense of the debate.
Clean Sweep: How — and Why — to Detoxify Your Body
Ever wonder how much toxic sludge your body is carting around? If you want to be healthy, fit, and bursting with energy, it’s time you learned a little about detoxification and internal cleansing.
Kicking Candida
Some call it an invisible epidemic. When Candida albicans, a family of yeastlike fungi that lives in our digestive tracts, multiplies out of control, it causes mysterious symptoms and serious health woes for women, men and children. Is it breeding in you?
Anatomy of a Potbelly
Lurking under all that unwanted abdominal fat are hidden dangers that can hurt us to the core.
How To Choose Better Personal-Care Products
While conventional personal-care products still contain plenty of less-than-lovely ingredients, a growing number of companies are putting on a fresher, cleaner face.
5 Healing Spices
A biochemist born and raised in India shares his passion for aromatic spices and their extraordinary health benefits. Here are five favorites, available in any grocery store, that can help treat and prevent a surprising number of diseases.
Change Agents
Meet five visionaries who are leading the charge to better health, and a healthier world.
What You Need to Know About EMFs
The electromagnetic radiation surrounding us — especially from cell phones — may pose unseen dangers to our health. Learn what you can do to reduce your exposure to EMFs.
Overcoming Constipation
No one wants to talk about constipation. But it’s a chronic problem that undermines the health of millions of Americans. Are you one of them?
How Good Bacteria — and Bad Bacteria — Affect Your Microbiome
Find out why some internal bacteria are our friends – and why providing a happy, well-balance home for them is essential to our vitality and well-being.
How to Treat Adrenal Fatigue Naturally
The weight of daily responsibilities and the burdens of chronic stress have produced an epidemic of adrenal fatigue. Find out if this energy-zapping condition is dragging you down, and how to treat it naturally.
A Path out of Depression
There’s a reason that most so-called primitive cultures have avoided the depression epidemic afflicting industrialized nations. In a provocative book, a clinical psychologist suggests that adopting more hunter-gatherer habits can help us escape the blues.
A Better Way to Treat Allergies
Americans spend billions every year trying to tame their allergy symptoms — mostly with prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. Know your alternatives.
Are Your Medications Doing More Harm Than Good?
Could the medications we take to regulate cholesterol, blood pressure, and stomach acid be doing us more harm than good?
How Does Sleep Influence Weight Gain?
New research shows that sleep significantly influences metabolism, appetite, and weight management. Could getting more shuteye help you ward off excess pounds?
Upgrade Your Brain
Your brain changes over the course of your lifetime — for better or for worse. Here’s how to make the most of your gray matter.
How to Create a Natural Home Medicine Cabinet
You stock your kitchen’s pantry shelves with wholesome, all-natural goods. Why not the shelves of your bathroom, too?
Turbo Shopping: Tips to Help You Save Time at the Grocery Store
Your aisle-by-aisle guide to a fast, healthy grocery run.
The Health Benefits of Drinking Water
Proper hydration is key to good health, but why? And what’s the best way to get what our bodies really need? Our experts debunk a few myths.