Functional Fitness 101: Is a Workout-Therapy Hybrid What You Need?
Ever thought about hiring a personal trainer but worried you’d be too inflexible or in too much pain to make it worthwhile? Even if you're in great shape, you may feel pain doing everyday tasks, whether from injury, arthritis or overtraining. Functional fitness may help.
6 Best Ways to Support a Loved One Who Has Cancer
Three out of four families will see a family member diagnosed with cancer. Our list of the six most supportive things you can do for a cancer patient reflects the advice of cancer–center doctors, social workers, survivors and family members who were there for them.
How Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Pilates Therapy
How and why Pilates therapy is being used to support treatment and recovery for breast cancer patients, including exercise modifications and tips on getting started.
9 Holistic Remedies You Need in Your Medicine Cabinet
Stock your medicine cabinet with these remedies naturopathic doctors use at home and most recommend to their patients for pain relief and conditions ranging from colds to insomnia to athlete's foot.
How to Alleviate Foot Pain: 4 Simple Ways to Soothe Your Feet
When your feet are not working to their full potential, the effects are going to be felt throughout the body. Here are four simple things you can do improve your foot mechanics immediately.
Conquer 5 Midlife Crises & Be Fabulous
Author Marianne Williamson on how to triumph over five common catalysts for midlife crisis. She shows how you can find a sense of peace and a new you who’s cooler than ever.
Cosmetic Acupuncture: What You Need to Know
Can acupuncture help you look younger? Using acupuncture needles on the face to enhance beauty and preserve a youthful appearance has been done for centuries in China but it’s just started to become popular in the United States.
Perfecting Your Posture to Relieve Chronic Pain
If you have forgotten what it feels like to move without pain, this information is for you!
Who’s Your Mama? Gift Guide
Your mom's the best! The Who's Your Mama Gift Guide has just what she needs to keep going. Are you a mom? Working hard to balance it all? Treat yourself! You know you deserve it.
5 Ways to Boost the Bone Building Power of Your Workout
Tweak your workout to build bone density even if you already have bone loss or osteoporosis. How weight-bearing vs. weighted workouts help, plus multidirectional movement, balance exercises and more.
Back Pain Relief: An M.D.’s Top 5 Tips
Chopra Center Medical Director David Simon, M.D., says alternative healthcare remedies for back care can be surprisingly effective.
How Andie MacDowell Stays Awake and Aware
Veteran actress, model and mom Andie MacDowell says meditation, yoga, eco-friendly living, and a remarkable church choir she went to see while filming “Tara Road” are among the things that have kept her healthy and happy.
Update Your Heart Smarts: New Research & Advice
Updated studies, statistics and tips on preventing cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke, including how yoga, meditation and other techniques are proven to help.
1-2-3 Detox for Radiance
Gone overboard with indulgences lately? Look radiant in 24 hours, luminous in 48, and positively sparkly in 72. Step-by-step plan gives 3 ways to detox plus 7 recipes.
Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.
Cancer Survivors Thrive with Yoga
In Laura Kupperman’s Yoga for Survivors class, sore shoulders and tight hips are likely the least of students’ complaints. But here they find help with exactly what cancer has brought them today.
5 Ways to Lose More Weight with Walking Workouts
Top five ways to get better weight loss results from your walking workouts, from high-energy superwoman and Walkvest diva Debbie Rocker.
The Truth About Happiness: Q&A with Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith answers our top questions on the keys to becoming truly happy, based on the advice he shares as an expert featured in "The Secret" and "Living Luminaries."
Get Creative to Live Healthier, Longer
Aging experts help you act on research showing that staying active and creative as you age yields better health and cognitive abilities, and more happiness.
Face Yoga: Fountain of Youth?
Face yoga students are abandoning face-lifts and Botox for Downward Dog. Here’s the good, the bad and the need-to-know on face yoga and its anti-aging benefits, plus four poses with photos and instructions to help you see if it’s for you.
Yoga Therapy: The Next Wave in Yoga
Can yoga fix your bum knee? Your bad back? Western doctors are referring patients to yoga therapy as an alternative to physical therapy. Here's what you need to know about this growing, but still fledgling, healthcare approach.
Top 10 Superfoods
Too busy to eat as healthfully as you’d like every day? Dr. James Rouse shows you how to get maximum nutritional punch from a few uber-foods that can help fill the gaps.
Relationship Fix: How to Tell Difficult Truths So People Thank You
It’s possible to tell the most difficult truths so that people are literally filled with gratitude afterwards. Follow this advice from The Relationship Survival Guide, and overcome what you fear the most about telling a life-defining truth.
Apple Cinnamon 'Menopause Muffins' Recipe
Features ingredients including whole-grain flour, soy milk, flax and walnuts that help prevent and ease hot flashes, mood swings and other symptoms.
Mariel Hemingway's Secrets to Healthy Living
In her new book, actress, yogi and survivor Mariel Hemingway shows you a 30-day plan to help you derive "more health, more peace and more pleasure" from the life you already have.
Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis: Healthy to the Bone
Are you at risk for Osteoporosis? How much calcium is enough? What if you don't eat dairy? What about hormone therapy, soy, isoflavones ... The facts you need to help prevent and treat bone-density loss.
Making Peace with Your Age: Patricia Walden's words of widsom
Yogi Patricia Walden shares how yoga supports a woman's body, mind and spirit through all the stages of her life, from puberty to child-bearing years to menopause. An excerpt from The Woman's Book of Yoga & Health.
Medically Based Fitness Boosts Seniors' Health and Quality of Life
Perspective from a physical therapist who works with 50+ clients, and from two of her patients, on why exercise begun at ANY age can treat age-related ailments physically, mentally and emotionally.
8 Nondrug Treatments for Arthritis
Does exercise help or hurt? Could food be a culprit? What about glucosamine and Devil's Claw? How to relieve and control the pain of arthritis without drugs or surgery.
Beyond Hummus & Feta: Diversity is key in Mediterranean diet's benefits
Mediterranean eateries and explore more of the region's traditional foods of these cultures whose diets reflect a time-tested cultural model of healthful eating.
8 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship
Love and intimacy have been linked to better physical and mental health. Stay more connected to your partner with these tips from experts including "Dr. Phil" and Love & Survival author Dean Ornish, M.D.
