I was one of those depressed, overweight, overstressed people who always had a reason why I wouldn’t or couldn’t run. The most pressing reason was that sneakers made my feet feel so hot that I couldn’t bear to wear them. Ever. Lucky for me, I am the CEO of the company that owns Runner’s World, […]
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Inheritance
by guest blogger Holly Walck, Iyengar yoga practitioner and teacher in Bethlehem, PA and Istanbul, Turkey I have spent the past 15 years, just a little less than half my life, studying and teaching Iyengar yoga. So when I learned that BKS Iyengar, our Guruji and the most influential yoga master of our time was, […]
4 Secrets to Preserve Your Eyesight
By guest blogger Dr. Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, LAc; author of the bestselling book Secrets of Longevity. More than ever, we use our eyes to stare at small type and images on computer screens, televisions, and cellphones—a modern trend that leads to eye fatigue and an increase in age-related eye problems. But diminished […]
My 10 Tips for Radical Beauty
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s not that I think I’m beautiful. But over the years, I’ve been trying to detox my beauty regime and get to the heart of what makes me FEEL beautiful. As women, and especially teenage girls, we are pushed and sold—and sometimes even bullied into believing we […]
Jillian Michaels: Our Food System Is Set Up to Fail
By guest blogger and leading health-and-wellness expert Jillian Michaels Here’s a statistic for you: One dollar will buy you 1,200 calories of processed garbage that will likely make you fat or sick, or both. Conversely, that same buck will only nab you 250 calories of healthy food (fruits, vegetables, organic meat, whole grains) that can […]
ED is an Effect of ED
“ED, erectile dysfunction, is an EFFECT of ED, endocrine disruption.” That’s a direct quote from one of my all-time heroines, Dr. Theo Colborn, author of Our Stolen Future and one of the scientists who coined the term “endocrine disruption” 20 years ago. She and her fellow scientists created the term to explain the effects of […]
The Trouble with Testosterone
By guest blogger Peter Moore, editor of Men’s Health magazine and coauthor, with Travis Stork, MD, of the Lean Belly Prescription A few years back, we editors at Men’s Health decided to put our masculinity on the line and test our testosterone levels. Isn’t that just what you picture Men’s Health editors doing, dip-sticking their […]
Top 10 Non-Toxic Ways to Control Bed Bugs
About a year ago, I wrote a very controversial blog post about bedbugs and global warming. I admit I was “brainstorming” rather than basing my thoughts on real research. Well, I finally got to meet a REAL scientist who studies bedbugs (he’s an entomologist), and has researched them extensively. My theory was that CO2 in […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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