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We’re Always Learning More—These Are the Takeaways We’ve Learned from COVID-19 This Year
If we can agree on one thing, it’s that the emergence of COVID-19 last year took the world by surprise and changed everything. While we are still in the midst of the pandemic, it looks quite different than it did in early 2020. Tragically, more than 5 million people are dead worldwide, and the omicron variant is spreading quickly. But before you head down a doom...
5 Best Health Benefits of Walking, Says Science
Want to stress less, sleep better, and possibly live longer? Lace up your sneakers, step outside (or onto a treadmill), and go for a walk. Rinse and repeat 20 minutes daily to reap the most benefits from this super simple form of exercise.
"The mental and physical health benefits of walking are endless," says Christine Torde, CPT of Body Space Fitness in Manhattan...
How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food That Lasts
Back when you were just a toddler, you probably never gave your hunger as much as a second thought. You ate a snack when your stomach growled, you stopped munching when you felt full and satisfied, and you repeated the process throughout the day. But as you aged, that intuitive approach to eating may have gone sideways...
How to Find the Best Nutritionist for Your Needs
You've relied on food to fuel you for most of your life and, unlike when you were a child, you're now entirely in charge of your nutritional choices.
While sustenance can sometimes feel like an afterthought and eating something that just happens on autopilot, the foods and drinks you consume can have a major impact on everything...
My New Year’s Resolution Wasn’t About Weight Loss This Year
My brain works the way it does today because I grew up as a chubby kid in the midst of an unforgiving ’90s diet culture. I was on diets before I probably knew what dieting even meant, and I was hyper aware of my body size and the number on the scale before I was packing my own lunch. Unsurprisingly, this led to years of trying every diet on the internet, scouring the bookshelves at bookstores for the answers to my scale-related woes, and naturally...
12 Types of Winter Squash and How to Cook Them This Season
Head to your local supermarket or farmers’ market this winter and you’ll likely see piles of colorful, hard-shelled winter squash intertwined with the popular pumpkin and sweet potatoes. Available in a multitude of sizes, colors, and textures, these winter squash varieties are some of the winter and fall’s best vegetables and are a delicious option for cooking...
Exercise Mistakes That Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Science Says
Given the choice, would you choose to live forever? It's a question humans have been asking themselves for thousands of years, but immortality is probably better off as a fantasy. Eternal life would undoubtedly get pretty boring after the first 500 or 5,000 years. One survey of over 2,000 adults conducted by New Scientist reports that only one...
Can Diet or Exercise Reduce Stomach Cellulite? Experts Explain
In a world of social media filters, Photoshop, and perfect lighting and angles, we can forget one very important fact: most people have cellulite. It's totally normal! Some have cellulite on their stomach or on their thighs, tush, or on the backs of their arms. Of course, cellulite is nothing to be ashamed of and is a totally normal part of the human body...
The Biggest Mistakes Vegetarians Make
All political, environmental, and moral issues regarding vegetarianism aside, vegetarianism is just as healthy as a diet that incorporates meat if it is approached in a sensible and informed way. In many cases with vegetarian diets, as with every diet, we fall into ruts, we are misinformed, and we lack the skills to pack our diet with nutritious and tasty food...
Let's Drop The Dieting Resolutions This Year — Our Kids Are Listening
I didn't connect my active, kale-loving family of five to these statistics until I noticed a note in my medical record. Under patient examination...