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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.
Understanding Food and Diet Studies
For years, sophisticated consumers have relied on the latest clinical trials to guide their health choices, but exactly how reliable are these studies? If you’re depending solely on scientific evidence for your health solutions, your assumptions about what’s right might well be wrong.
Build a Better Brain
Fitness is more than just losing weight and toning up — it’s a whole-body pursuit, one that includes tending to the health of one of your most important organs: the brain.
How to Nourish Your Body While Under Stress
When reality bites, eating right becomes essential. Stress and worry deplete your nutritional stores, destabilize your blood sugar, and reduce your stamina. Here’s what you need to know about building and maintaining a well-rounded diet that can withstand the pressure.
Money, Politics and Health Care: A Disease-Creation Economy
Dr. Mark Hyman examines the connections of politics, money, and our healthcare system — and what we can do about it.
Can School Lunch Be Saved?
What kids eat at school can influence their eating habits for a lifetime. Here’s how a growing movement is working hard to create healthier school-lunch programs across the country.
How to Use Nutrition to Improve Your Libido
Interest in sex may wane for many reasons, including aging. Here’s a list of key nutrients and herbs to support a strong, healthy sex drive.
Can Quercetin Relieve Your Seasonal Allergies?
Learn how this common nutrient can provide relief.
Connecting ADHD and Nutrition
For kids with focus and behavior challenges, nutritional shifts may work as well as, or better than, medication.
What to Eat for Healthy Joints
Are your joints giving you trouble? Eating strategically can ease pain and minimize future damage.
The Importance of Nutrient-Dense Food and Bioavailability
You aren’t “what you eat” — you’re what you digest and absorb. Our expert reveals how to get the most nutrition from your food.
Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs
Carbs have gotten a rotten rap lately, partly because they’re frequently lumped into one big-bad category. But not all carbs are bad! Find out which are worth befriending, and which are better to let go.
Love at First Bite: Strawberries
Simple yet sublime, the innocent strawberry has the power to seduce all of your senses at once.
Northern Abundance: 3 Tradition Recipes for Winter
Cookbook author Deborah Madison reintroduces us to traditional comfort foods of the North – just in time for winter.
Smart and Simple Grocery Store Swaps for Healthy Choices
Want to feed you and your family right? Start at the supermarket. This eight-week guide provides the shopping know-how you need to give your cart a healthful overhaul — without facing a mutiny from your family.
Comfort Food for Your Brain
What you feed your body, you also feed your brain — sometimes to its detriment. Learn how to nourish your gray matter for more balanced moods, clearer thinking and a more fulfilling life.
Love Your Lunch
When cafeterias, vending machines and fast food fail to satisfy, a sack lunch can save the day – if you pack it right.
How to Stock a Healthy Fridge
A dietitian’s guide for how to clean, stock, and organize your refrigerator to help make healthy eating easier.
The 13 Pillars of the Pegan Diet
In his new book, functional-medicine doc Mark Hyman, MD, says a Pegan diet — which combines principles of Paleo and vegan diets — is the best way to eat. Here are the 13 pillars of the Pegan diet.
How to Handle Histamine Intolerance
6 tips to understand this all-too-common allergic reaction.