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What’s your relationship with your phone?
If you feel naked without it, you’re not alone.
The average American checks their phone somewhere between 40 and 80 times a day. Millennials check their phones twice as often. [Read more…] about Is Your Cellphone Harming Your Health?
I’m a mother.
Which makes me in the know about magic.
Add the word “magic” in front of anything—cream, Band-Aid, medicine, sandwich—and your kid will love it. It’ll go down like a charm. [Read more…] about Why Every Woman Needs This “Magic Cream”
I started noticing it a few years ago.
I’d be reading profiles of brilliant leaders. People who’d really reached the top of their game.
Consistently, these high performers would mention that they meditate for at least 20 minutes a day. [Read more…] about Why You Need 20 Minutes a Day to Yourself
Who doesn’t count calories?
Calorie-counting apps are big business, along with activity trackers like Fitbit.
Track how much you’re taking in versus how much you’re burning, and you’ve got an easy equation for weight loss. [Read more…] about Why Counting Calories Could Shorten Your Life
Ever wondered why you get older?
It’s a legitimate question.
We know, for example, that cells in the body are dying off all the time and being replaced. Your skin cells regenerate every 2 to 3 weeks [Read more…] about Why You Age
It’s your worst nightmare.
You wake up feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck. You go to the doctor and he tells you it’s your gallbladder.
You don’t have time to be sick. You’ve got a modeling and acting career to pursue. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor Kris Carr
Ever felt your neck when you’ve got a cold…
To see if your lymph nodes were swollen?
That’s the only thing I knew about the lymphatic system growing up. Useful for diagnostic purposes, I guess, but not real exciting. [Read more…] about Why Your Lymph Nodes are Your New Best Friend
When I get older, I want to be just like Dr. Northrup.
I used to want to be just like Helen Mirren. Beautiful and a dame and an Academy Award winner and still smokin’ hot in her 70s? Bring it on! [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Women’s Health Expert Dr. Christiane Northrup
Popping handfuls of supplements has never been my thing.
Surely a good multivitamin is enough, I thought.
It’s only been in the past few years that I’ve started to question that thinking. [Read more…] about What Vitamin Labels Don’t Tell You
We gotta talk about coffee.
I know you love your Keurig. Just pop in a K-Cup, and voila! Just like a barista made it for you.
Because otherwise you’ll be waiting endlessly in your car, waiting your turn at the coffee drive-thru of goodness [Read more…] about What You Don’t Know about Your Keurig Could Be Making You Sick
The top 5 ingredients for healthy living, according to the best scientific sources, are:
– Diet
– Exercise
– Sleep
– Sunshine
– Socializing [Read more…] about The Missing Ingredient in a Healthy Life
If you’re going to dance, you’d better do it well.
Otherwise there’s an audience ready to laugh you off the floor.
That’s not much of an incentive to take up dancing, even if studies are showing that it can help you beat the advance of age. [Read more…] about Dance Your Way to Happiness & Health
Back in college, I was putting away my lunch things when my housemother stopped me. “Are you going to put that can back in the fridge?”
I blinked at her. I looked down at the can. “I only used half of it.”
“Put it in a container, then!” [Read more…] about Are Your Food Storage Containers Safe?
Alopecia is a word that strikes fear into my heart.
You see, I have a family pattern of thinning hair. And it’s not on the men’s side.
It’s on my mother’s.
[Read more…] about Why Women Lose So Much Hair
Raise your hand if you eat three meals a day, with no snacks in between.
Yeah, my hand isn’t up, either.
I snack all day long instead of having proper meals. I used to think that was a good thing. Keeps my metabolism revved up and so forth. [Read more…] about A Diet Plan That Keeps Pounds Off Permanently?
