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Eating Healthy & Organic on the Go In the past, healthy and organic choices for people constantly on the move were nearly nonexistent. Today, it's the latest trend in fast food, and several chain restaurants are adding vegan and vegetarian, or humanely raised meat options to their menus.

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.

5 Ways to Keep Your Kids’ Brains Active All Summer Long While it’s a necessary break from the routine of school, summer can also be a great time to find fun ways to keep kids from losing what they’ve learned. Parents can strike a balance between learning and fun

Becoming a Compassionate Carnivore Life as a carnivore used to be simple. Today, however, the choices are no longer just between specific dishes, but between different ways to raise, feed, and butcher the animals who become the meat in those dishes.

Yoga for Detox Most forms of vigorous exercise stimulate all three systems of elimination to some extent, thereby helping the body in its quest to detox. But yoga is particularly well-suited to keeping the waste-removal departments of the body functioning well.

3 Delicious Ways to Get More Whole Grain in Your Life You’ve heard it over and over: A diet high in whole grain lowers the risk of heart disease and diabetes, and helps with weight loss by making you feel fuller after eating. Here are three easy ways to get more of the good stuff.

5 Delicious, Healthy and Easy to Make Dairy-Free Smoothie Recipes Smoothies are a wonderful way to sneak nutrients into a diet, and you can make endless variations. My trick is, don’t use ice, but use frozen fruit.

9 Ways to Improve Your Memory Memory difficulties are typical with older age. The good news is there’s much we can do to preserve memory.

Calm Mom: 5 Ways to Be a Present Parent Composed mothering isn’t out of reach for you, say mindful mothering experts and moms who are borrowing techniques from practices like yoga and meditation to boost their calm-mom powers. Try these five tips and make being a calm mom look like child’s play.

Savory and Sweet Summer Fruit Guide + 3 Delicious Recipes My favorite part of summer is the ripe, flavorful fruits that will be in season from now until the fall. They're delicious on their own, but don't overlook how wonderfully summer fruits can be integrated into nearly any meal.

Build Stress Resilience with Ayurveda In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease and illness. Instead of stress reduction, Ayurveda prescribes a series of stress-prevention techniques.

Perfecting Your Posture to Relieve Chronic Pain If you have forgotten what it feels like to move without pain, then this information is for you!

Natural Relief for Allergy Symptoms Spring blooms may look sweet and innocent, but allergy sufferers know better. Natural alternatives can go a long way to relieve milder allergy symptoms.

How to Eat to Lose Weight The program outlined below is not a diet. It is a way of life that will support you in weight loss and maintenance, and in building a foundation for living the life of your dreams.

Lighten Up! 6 Easy Substitutions to Lighten Your Favorite Meals Before you sign up for the latest fad diet, why not try a few simple, everyday changes in your favorite recipes that will shave off fat and calories more painlessly than a strict diet.

Detox Buyer’s Guide: Top Products to Help You Cleanse Our intrepid tester tried them all — foot spas, detox baths, foot pads, workouts, foods, and skin treatments — and asked experts how they work. A personal shopper’s lowdown on the detox scene.

Detox 101 Daily life produces toxins—there’s no way around that. The body has mechanisms for eliminating toxins, such as breathing, sweating, urinating and bowel movements, but sometimes it needs a little bit of help.

Making Sense of Food Labels These days, labels, not to be confused with Nutrition Facts, are everywhere. Here’s a rundown of how to translate the most popular eco-labels.

Spring Detox Foods & Shopping List What to eat to feel better, boost fat burn and help prevent illness this spring! How to use spring’s harvest of low-fat, detoxifying sprouts, greens and berries to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities.

Quiz: How Green are Your Groceries? If you’re trying to lead a greener lifestyle, grocery shopping can seem positively treacherous. If you think you’ve got the scoop on the most responsible choices at the supermarket, take this quiz to see how much you know…and which topics you need to brush up on.

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.

Spring Produce and Healthy Recipes Get the pick of the first tender vegetables of the season. A guide to seven springtime favorites to watch for, plus three healthy recipes to help you succeed at eating what’s in season.

Stress Relief Tips from Mayo Clinic Stress can be short-term or long-term. If constantly elevated, stress can make you more vulnerable to life-threatening health problems. Fortunately though, you can develop skills to avoid some stressors and limit the effects of others. Here are eight of them.

Kick Off Your Detox with a Restorative Twist Twist your torso to help your body detox. Here’s how to do a restorative seated yoga twist to give your cleanse a gentle and painless jump-start.

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.

Heat Up Valentine's Day: 3 (Healthy) Aphrodisiac Recipes Whip up a romantic Valentine's Day meal packed with aphrodisiacs. Fun trivia on the love powers of seven aphrodisiac foods, plus three recipes for a complete meal to spark some romance.

Proof that Eating Slowly Curbs Appetite For more than 30 years, dieters have been told to eat slowly to reduce their intake of food. Until now, there has been no scientific evidence to support the theory. But a new laboratory study confirmed that eating more slowly helps people eat less.

Beat the Blues with Heart-Opening Yoga Feeling blue? Yoga instructor Kate Hanley explains how to do simple yoga poses that open the chest -- a surprisingly simple and effective way to lift your mood.

Vegan, Vegetarian, Macrobiotic ... What's the Difference? Not all vegetarians are created equal. Get the lowdown in this excerpt from "Veggie Revolution: Smart Choices for a Healthy Body And a Healthy Planet."

How to Lose Weight with Yoga Experts weigh in on the best ways to put specific yoga styles, poses and side-effects to work helping you lose weight and get healthier.