Family/Friends – Page 3 – Experience Life

- Family/Friends -

7 Tips for a Saner Holiday

By Experience Life Staff

Find more joy this holiday season with these strategies for slowing down and being more conscious.

- Travel -

Intergenerational Adventures

By Kelle Walsh

Discover how active multigenerational vacations can broaden your horizons in fun and unexpected ways.

- Food Culture -

Candy Companies Ramp Up Kids TV Ads Despite Pledge

By Craig Cox

A new study shows that major candy brands increased their television marketing to kids after promising to curtail ads.

- Fitness Tips -

Twins & Fitness

By Margret Aldrich

What happens to the health of identical twins who have very different exercise habits?

- Family/Friends -

Making Sense of SNPs

By Julie Kendrick

Small genetic variations can have a big influence on your health — and affect your nutritional needs, too.

- Family/Friends -

Kids & Digital Dementia

By Heidi Wachter

Research shows our growing use of digital devices can affect sleep quality, obesity risk, aggressive behavior and “digital dementia”.

- Family/Friends -

5 Questions to Consider in Cultivating Healthy Friendships

By Kristin Meekhof

Positive bonds support our happiness, but soured relationships may need to be re-evaluated. Here are five things to consider.

- Couples -

Distant Relations

By John Spayde

Maintaining relationships with friends and loved ones who live far away can be challenging. But you can bridge the gap — and perhaps become closer than ever.

- Family/Friends -

Bullying Is a Weighty Issue

By Heidi Wachter

A new study finds adults believe fat stigma is the leading cause of childhood bullying.

- Couples -

Stuck in a Holding Pattern

By Jon Spayde

Maintaining a ho-hum relationship can be more stressful than making a healthy shift. Here’s how to break free of relationship inertia.

- Sports/Recreation -

What I’ve Learned From My Triathlete Dad

By Brooke Rymer

When your role model is an athlete, the life lessons extend far beyond sport. One daughter shares the wisdom she’s picked up from her father.

- Workouts -

Expert Answers on Safely Strength Training for Children

By Chrissy Zmijewski

Is there a safe way for my kid to strength train?

- Family/Friends -

Handling a High-Maintenance Friend

By Jon Spayde

Have a pal who makes excessive claims on your time and attention? Here’s how to manage the relationship — without making yourself crazy.

- Aging -

In a new study by the Stanford University School of Medicine, 88 percent of the 1,081 doctors surveyed say they would choose a do-not-resuscitate status if they had a terminal diagnosis rather than be hooked up to machines and feeding tubes in their final days.

- audio -

“Being Healthy Is a Patriotic Act”: A Conversation with Robyn O’Brien (Audio)

By Heidi Wachter

Healthy food advocate and author, Robyn O’Brien offers suggestions for making our food system work for 21st century families.

- Family/Friends -

Reinventing Traditions

By Jon Spayde

New realities sometimes require new holiday rituals. Here’s how to embrace change without losing the spirit of your traditions.

- Stress Relief -

Losing A Pet

By Jon Spayde

When a beloved animal companion dies, runs away, or is lost, the grief can be overwhelming. Psychologist Sandra Barker on how to cope.

- Honestly, Dara -

Family Values à la Française

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on why perhaps it’s time we stopped obsessing about how the French eat, and started emulating the way they live.

- Fitness Tips -

Putting Kids Back Into Kids’ Sports

By Chris Ballard

Many children simply don’t have fun playing sports anymore. Here’s a plan to reverse the “adultification” of youth athletics.

- Family/Friends -

Proof Positive: Genetically, Many Friends Are Like Family

By Katie Dohman

Research duo Nicholas Christakis and John Fowler recently discovered that the friends we choose tend be as genetically similar as our fourth cousins.

- audio -

A Guide to Healthy Pregnancy With Latham Thomas & Heather White (Audio)

By Experience Life Staff

Listen in as Experience Life senior editor Courtney Lewis Opdahl discusses pregnancy with Latham Thomas and Heather White.