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On Knowledge and Nourishment
A three-step approach to upgrading your health — and your life — for the long haul.
How to Broaden Your Food Palate
Reasons to find the courage to face the foods that freak you out.
Coming to Terms With Reality
Are you being held hostage by your negative thoughts? Byron Katie and “The Work” will help you discover how to negotiate a truce.
How to Loosen Early-Morning Body Stiffness
Two stretching drills to help mitigate morning-movement woes.
Buddy System: Naddir Eldeeb’s Success Story
How a determined friend helped one man lose 225 pounds and reclaim his sense of self.
PUMPING IRONY: Eat Less to Live Longer
A new study suggests that cutting back on calories can extend your lifespan.
Expert Answer: The Fitness Value of Walking
I enjoy walking and hiking for fitness. But am I getting a decent workout? Do I need to be doing something more?
Revolutionary Act 5: Repossess Your Health
Reclaim responsibility for your well-being; own your daily choices; minimize your reliance on the broken sick-care system.
Cheap Food, Big Bucks
Dreading the little birds-and-bees talk? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how telling your kids about food-industry profit margins can be just as awkward.
10 Strategies to Help Give Up a Favorite Food
Deciding to forgo a food you’ve long savored presents practical and emotional challenges — even when you know it’s for the best. Here’s how to make it easier.
Connecting ADHD and Nutrition
For kids with focus and behavior challenges, nutritional shifts may work as well as, or better than, medication.
Making Friends With Your Food
Pilar Gerasimo on making sensible, sane choices in a food world as nutty and confusing as the one we live in now.
6 Plant-Based Ways to Fight Inflammation — Naturally
Avoiding NSAIDs like ibuprofen and naproxen because of their potential side effects? Here are botanical alternatives that may fit the bill.












