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What’s in your hand sanitizer?

The fitness nutritional benefits of dark chocolate.

Discover the impact of showering on your microbiome. Learn how often you should shower for optimal skin health and immune function.

Four ways that fiddling with our phones can have a negative effect on our bodies.

Warming up properly prior to an intense workout may reduce asthma sufferers’ reliance on inhalers and other medications, according to two recent studies.

New studies show that strength training boosts memory.

The U.S. Dietary Guidelines surrounding cholesterol have been wrong.

Learn how we spend our savings can increase our satisfaction in Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending.

Why you may want to avoid anti-odor clothes, and alternatives for lessening the stink.

The Environmental Working Group’s new Food Scores app gives users information on nutrition, toxicity, and degree of processing for ingredients, products and brands.

They promise power, performance, and enhanced recovery, but many energy bars are little more than candy bars by another name. Here’s a look inside and how to find the healthiest option for your needs.

Top-tier research confirms that being compassionate is good for us, altering our physiology to boost not just happiness but well-being.

In a new study by the Stanford University School of Medicine, 88 percent of the 1,081 doctors surveyed say they would choose a do-not-resuscitate status if they had a terminal diagnosis rather than be hooked up to machines and feeding tubes in their final days.

One more great reason to start strength training now: Older adults with more muscle mass live longer.

The influences of meditation stretch from head to toe, positively affecting your brain, heart, and immune system, and helping with chronic pain, insomnia, and depression. We’ve rounded up some intriguing recent research showing that meditation is a powerful ally for mind, body, and spirit.

A 2014 study suggests that the way we talk about and frame weight issues can have a significant impact on both the attitude and behavior of overweight individuals.

As many as 2,000 chemicals may be involved in making the clothes in your closet. They include pesticides, toxic dyes, and formaldehyde — a known carcinogen used as a mildew preventive in the fashion world (and as an embalming agent in the funeral industry).

A Harvard report finds that sugar pills can greatly reduce migraine symptoms — even when the patient knows the pill is a fake.

Nutritional Supplements are not highly regulated, so both quality standards and formulations vary widely. In her New York Times bestseller, The Hormone Cure, Sara Gottfried, MD, offers these tips for supplement shopping:

Regular workouts don’t just benefit your fitness. They benefit your skin, too — particularly as you age.

Recent research finds that for adults, there may be significant emotional benefits in talking to strangers.