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10 Tips for Making the Most of Your Training Sessions
We asked some top Personal Trainers what they wish more of their clients would do in the name of great fitness outcomes. Here’s what they said.
Is Mold Affecting Your Health?
Learn if mold is messing with your body — and how you can clear up the trouble.
8 DIY Beauty Products
Try these recipes for clean, all-natural skincare products you can make at home.
What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You, Part 2
How to read the telltale clues of health imbalances — and what you can do about them.
TalkRx: How to Improve Your Health and Relationships With Communication
Learn how to transform conversations into healing connections.
8 Moves to Boost Back Resiliency
Relieve your sore spine with these accessible exercises.
The Changing Face of Beauty
An increasing interest in all things real and natural is changing how we take care of ourselves — inside and out.
Strong-Body Basics: Mastering Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts
Learn how to correctly perform the Big Three — plus their variations — with this comprehensive guide.
3 Miracle Cures (That Aren’t, Really)
Too many chronic ailments have been pronounced “incurable.” Here’s how some forward-thinking practitioners are resolving such conditions — and transforming their patients’ lives.
The Unexpected Gifts of Imperfection
By confronting our scarier emotions — vulnerability, fear, and shame — we can learn to lead a more “wholehearted” life. Brené Brown shows us the way.
Forever Fit: How to Exercise at Any Age
Getting older doesn’t have to mean retiring from your favorite activities and sports.
Here’s your guide for staying fit for life.
See the Big Picture: 5 Fundamentals of a Healthy Life
Discover what you can start doing now to prepare for your healthiest, most vibrant future.
In Their Prime
Think beauty fades after 40? These nine honest, beautiful portraits will make you think again.
The Functional-Medicine Matrix
Discover the simple tools progressive practitioners use to dig beyond diagnoses and treat root causes effectively.
6 Factors that Affect Weight Loss
Conventional weight-loss strategies often fail because they don’t account for a host of intersecting factors that are unique in each of us. Here are the variables that matter most — and why.
Turf Wars: How Special Interests Manipulate Online Activism to Influence Health Narrative
How special interests concoct “grassroots” movements online, mobilizing mobs that help shape the public conversation about health.
9 Strategies to Create a More Civil, Loving Marriage
Why are we so rude to our spouses, yet courteous, kind, and patient with complete strangers? Paying attention to good manners and small niceties may be the key to sustaining the vitality of your relationships.
Strategies and Ideas to Get Your Kids Moving More
Gym classes are vanishing. Passive entertainments are multiplying. The country has an out-of-control obesity problem. How can we stop the next generation from getting lost in the shuffle.
7 Workplace Communication Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Workplace communication challenges can undermine our equanimity, sap our satisfaction, and hurt our success. A renowned mindfulness teacher shows us how to build stronger, more successful relationships — with our colleagues and ourselves.
Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain
A neurologist explains the power of your microbiome to heal and protect your brain.
On Faith and Fitness
Glutes and godliness. Biceps and the Bible. On first view, fitness and faith may seem a strange match. But for many people, spiritual motivations bring deeper meaning to their health and fitness pursuits, and prove to be a positive, pivotal factor in supporting them.