You may think of calorie counting as something people only do for weight loss, but it can be just as important for helping with weight gain, especially if you're not seeing a lot of change in your physique. Sometimes you're just not eating as much...
Read MoreLet’s look at gratitude through a few different lenses. I’ve never been a big fan of Thanksgiving as a holiday—all the cooking, cleaning, turkey… But this year, I’ve made November my gratitude month, instead of focusing on a specific day or eyeing the to-do lists. More...
Read MoreFor optimal health, make regular sleep patterns a habit. Getting the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night can be challenging enough. Kids come pussyfooting in and wake us up at 2 a.m. Or we stay up too late binge-watching TV, or...
Read MoreSometimes life hits us over the head, leaving us dazed. That sense of inertia and confusion is common during times of major transition. According to the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, developed in the late 1960s, the biggest life stressors are consistent among us: death...
Read MoreDon't let your holiday stress accumulate. ↓ Who designs gingerbread kits? That is what I would like to know. And do they not understand gravity? My kids and I struggled mightily to assemble our house, using a lot of a precious Saturday and consuming entirely too much...
Read More↓ Writing is a vital personal expression—a way to both share who you are with the world, and to delve deeper into your own psyche. Congrats! You want to start a daily writing practice. Excellent. Writing is a vital personal expression—a way to both share who you...
Read More↓ Seize this midlife point as a mile marker for better heart health. “This midlife trauma is not a cruel joke set upon us by an all-powerful god,” writes author Lisa Arnold in her book, For Sanity’s Sake: Devotions for the Temporarily Insane, Otherwise Known as the Menopausal...
Read MoreMeditation isn’t a vacation from everyday life—it can be an intensive course in exploring your inner landscape. If you need rest, Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce says meditation may not be the best way to manage your mind. In Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things...
Read More↓ Here are six tasty ways to boost your intake of lutein. ↓ If you’ve been meaning to eat more greens, a new study out from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may give you the extra nudge you need. It found that middle-aged people with higher levels...
Read More↓ There’s an increase in interest in this Asian healing modality. Let’s take a look. ↓ You might have heard of gua sha, which is basically a scraping massage. It’s often used as part of acupuncture therapy, employed to treat acute disease, from fever and migraine to hepatitis....
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