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How to Do the Mountain Climber
This do-anywhere body-weight move combines strength and cardio training with intensity. Explore several fun modifications to add variety to your workout routine.
The Health Effects of Loneliness and Isolation
Loneliness and isolation, which are two separate conditions, have only been exacerbated during the pandemic.
PUMPING IRONY: Desperate Measures
Biogen, the maker of the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, last week released the long-awaited results of two clinical trials — which promptly raised more questions than they answered.
7 Tips on Eating for Trauma Recovery
Cutting back on caffeine, eating magnesium-rich foods, and more can help support you while you are healing from chronic stress.
How to Turn On Your Creativity
Artistic pursuits are more than just a form of self-expression — they can also be a health- supporting addition to a balanced life.
The Power of Community Gardens
Community gardens offer a wide array of benefits: beautifying the landscape, fighting food insecurity, helping people come together, and more.
A 5-Move, Lower-Body Workout for Strength
Go through this base-building routine on your next lower-body day.
A Field Guide to Potatoes
Learn the features — and nutritional benefits — of five types of potatoes: French fingerlings, Peruvian purples, red potatoes, Yukon golds, and russets.
How to Improve Vagal Tone
Getting a massage, chanting, breathing deeply, and taking a cold shower can all help stimulate your vagus nerve.
How to Meet a Workout Partner — and Be a Better One Yourself
The benefits of finding your fitness community, how to meet friends to exercise with, and tips for being a supportive workout partner.
How to Free Yourself From the Cycle of Rumination
These seven tips can help stop obsessive rumination and cool down your body and mind.
PUMPING IRONY: On Memory and Forgetting
Concerned about my septuagenarian friend’s sudden memory lapse, I was comforted by new research suggesting that a little forgetfulness may not be a bad thing.
The Problem With Dams
Locks and dams are artifacts of the 20th century that we will have to pay dearly to maintain or have removed in this century. But restoring our rivers could pay off in myriad ways.