CLA: Can This Fatty Acid Help You Lose Weight?
Fans of the CLA supplements believe it does. Here’s the skinny on how CLA works and whether or not it can help with weight loss.
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Transform Your Health With Live Foods
The biggest problem with the average American diet is not just how much we eat, it’s the percentage of our diet that’s made up of cooked and over-processed foods. Find out how eating live can help you live healthier, happier, and longer.
Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer
The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
A New Path: Courtney Lewis Opdahl’s Success Story
One woman’s journey from yo-yo diets and a spirit-crushing obsession with weight to a happy, healthy rebirth.
All Over It: How to Eliminate Goal-Blocking Obstacles for Good
Is your resolve dissolving in the midst of setbacks and challenges? Here’s how to spot the obstacles blocking your way — and then put them behind you.
The Heritage-Wheat Renaissance
Why more farmers are growing heirloom-wheat varieties that are less troublesome for people with gluten sensitivities.
Life Saved: Kathe Yamagata’s Success Story
How an appointment with her doctor jump-started a woman’s weight loss — and helped her find the strength within.
7 Adaptogens for Health
Adaptogenic herbs like ginseng are great for battling stress and boosting your overall immunity, strength, and resilience.
Triclosan to be reviewed by FDA
The FDA is being forced to look at the safety and effectiveness of triclosan — a common ingredient in soap and a suspected toxin.
Beating Lyme Disease
For patients with tick-borne diseases, the path to health can be confounding. Combining integrative and conventional approaches may be the best way forward.
Asparagus: A Spring Classic
One of the first signs that winter is over, asparagus is bursting with powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutrients.
TAKING NOTES: 20 Things Overheard at the Functional Medicine Conference
Experience Life senior editor Anjula Razdan shares her top 20 takeaways from the recent @FXMed Conference in Minneapolis.
Rethinking the School Lunchbox: Healthy Meal Makeovers
Three of our favorite nutritionists revamp kids’ lunches to create meals the whole family can enjoy.
Organic Gardening 101
Organic gardening is more than just the products you use.
The Health Benefits of Tea
It’s not just the assortment of flavors and choices that is drawing many coffee lovers to experiment with “the other hot drink.” There are many health benefits as well.
Exploring New Farmers’ Markets
Moving can be stressful, but finding a nearby farmers’ market brings back the joy.
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.”
The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria
They’re essential to energy, focus, vitality, and metabolism. And yet most of us have no idea how our mitochondria work. Here’s how to tune up your body’s quadrillions of “energy factories” and avoid mitochondrial dysfunction.
What Is Holistic Dentistry?
Holistic dentists take a whole-person approach to dental care — and an integrated view of the mouth’s connection with the rest of the body.
How to Cope With Loved Ones Who Don’t Support Your New, Healthy Lifestyle
Making the decision to eat healthy can trigger tension with family members or friends. Healthy-eating expert and author Darya Pino Rose shares her strategies for finding peace at the dinner table.