The “E-Max” Fat-Burning Solution
Discover the important fat-blasting factors that can help you burn more calories, maximize your metabolism, and drop unwanted weight for good.
3 Dynamic Kettlebell Exercises for Building Strength and Endurance
These low-tech wonders offer a super-effective full-body workout. Here are some tips from several experts, including Pavel Tsatsouline and Mike Mahler.
How Concerned Should You Be About the Chemicals in Your Beauty Products?
Here’s how to keep yourself looking great with safer, simpler, more natural ingredients.
How to Make Good Food, Fast: 5 Simple Recipes
It’s tempting to fall back on packaged or processed foods when you’re in a rush, but there are better ways to get food on the table. Here, five respected whole-foods chefs share some tips on making great, healthy meals on the fly.
The Instant Wine Expert
Everything you need to know about selecting and enjoying terrific wines is already within your grasp.
5 Simple Steps to Eating Healthier
Instead of following complicated, unsatisfying diet regimens, tune in to your own senses and instincts.
How to Let Go of Sentimental Clutter
Smart decluttering strategies help you clear space while still honoring the memories that matter.
A Natural Fit: Ted Ning
Living a healthy and sustainable life comes naturally to Ted Ning, which makes him well-suited to his job - promoting Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability to like-minded millions.
Simpler Than We Think
Making big life changes may not be effortless, but with an empowered perspective and some decent advice, it’s eminently doable.
Escape From Complexity
If, at the beginning of each day, we each sat down and wrote the three most important things we wished to accomplish or experience that day without the benefit of technology, I think we’d find our lives both greatly simplified and vastly improved.
PUMPING IRONY: Attention Deficit
I strive on a fairly regular basis to reduce my natural obliviousness to things (it's a guy thing), but I do not always succeed. Take Tuesday's workout, for instance. I'd been avoiding the gym during the latter phases of its renovation — it…
PUMPING IRONY: No More Excuses
My father died 30 years ago today, so some of my siblings and I (along with my daughter) will be marking the occasion later this afternoon at a tiny cemetery in Becker, Minn., where he and my mother are buried — along with…
PUMPING IRONY: Unintended Consequences
Just back from my fourth acupuncture session, during which I noticed that the cicadas between my ears had shifted slightly to the right (an ominous sign for the Obama administration?), leaving my left ear mostly quiet.
Core Value: Brooke Siler
Pilates changed Brooke Siler’s body—and her life. Now, helping others transform themselves for the better has become her life’s work.
How to Move From Perfectionism to Optimalism
When you retire your perfectionist tendencies, you can start living a richer, happier life. Here’s how to get started.
4 Signs You Need to Take a Fitness Break
You’re willing to push yourself, even when it hurts. You know how to tough it out, even when you’re tired. But do you know when to back off — and why? Here’s what all fitness buffs need to know about giving their bodies a break.
How Feldenkrais Enhances Healing and Performance
Athletes and people with injuries are (finally) discovering the Feldenkrais Method: a gentle rehabilitation system that teaches the body to move as it should.
Real Food, Real Farmers: 3 Recipes to Support Sustainable Farming
Katrina Heron thinks that small-scale farmers and organic growers have been misrepresented. In her new book, she aims to set the story straight.