6 New Ways To Eat Healthy For Less

Debra Ollivier, 05/17/12

Contributing editor and writer at large, Huff/Post50

Marilu Henner, who many remember as the character Elaine on the sitcom "Taxi," is the author of Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future. She is one of only 12 documented cases of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM.

Melissa T. Shultz, 05/17/12

Writer and Editor

I've met other kids like my son who, unlike my generation, can disconnect quicker -- and not just because their parents or teachers have taken their cellphones and laptops away. I think they genuinely know how to hang out and have a good time without them. Could it be a trend?

Nitika Chopra, 05/17/12

Founder, YourBellaLife.com; life coach

Believe in your power, broaden your perception and be present with it all. Paradise is in your mind. Start there and never stop having hope.

Elise Sax, 05/17/12

Author, "An Affair to Dismember"

College graduates are pondering who they are and who they will become, but maybe these questions can't be answered at graduation. Because I got to tell you, I'm a hell of a lot older than they are, and I'm asking myself: Who am I? Where am I? I used to know, but then I changed.

Deepak Chopra, 05/16/12

Author, 'Spiritual Solutions'; founder, The Chopra Foundation

Facts won't make you achieve the ideal figure, a healthy heart, or freedom from aging and disease.  Life isn't a puzzle with many pieces that need to fit where they belong. Life is an unfolding process, and it's your choice to make that process into one of continuous evolution.

Jenna-Marie Warnecke, 05/16/12

Freelance writer living in Paris

I don't feel half a world away from the people I love, because it's easy enough to get in touch with them, and for us to share our lives electronically. Yet I must admit, I have experienced a most uniquely modern kind of sadness recently upon learning very big news from two of my friends.

Rana Florida, 05/16/12

CEO, The Creative Class Group

Feel free to let your boss know that a new study released by the Center for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and American Cancer Society has confirmed what many have long suspected: that lengthy car commutes are terrible for your health.

Malcolm Wittenberg, 05/16/12

Founder, Micro Analytical Systems

Food labeling and transparency should be a fundamental, mandated practice employed across every food category, even those with the most complex supply chains.

Betsy Brown Braun, 05/16/12

Child development specialist. Author of 'You're Not The Boss Of Me'.

Emotional literacy is one of the realms of development that must be woven into growing up. Children need to learn to recognize, name, access and live with myriad feelings, including the strong ones, all of which are healthy and normal.

Chef Ann Cooper, 05/15/12

Celebrated author, chef, educator, and enduring advocate for better food for all children

On Rainbow Day, students are all offered a side salad at the salad bar for free -- whether they are getting lunch from school or brought lunch from home. At the salad bar they are encouraged to choose at least three different colors of the fruit and vegetable rainbow for their tray.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D., 05/15/12

Public Health Editor at HuffPost and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General

We now must act boldly to combat the obesity epidemic. There are many opportunities across the lifespan, but it will require a shift in social norms and an unprecedented social movement for obesity prevention.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, 05/15/12

Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health

Serious mental illnesses can be agony: They are as painful as physical illnesses but further bedeviling because there is no broken bone, no dead heart or lung tissue, no cancer or non-functioning organ to point to.

Sara Calabro, 05/15/12

Founding editor, AcuTake

At the root of our uneasiness with solitude is uncertainty about what we might find. We reflexively reach for our phones because we lack the confidence that tells us we alone are enough.

Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver, 05/15/12

Founders, TantraNova Institute

When we are aware of being at choice regarding our sexual beings, we can tap into and use our sexual energy in a multitude of ways, depending on what we want to create in our lives and relationships.

Stanton Peele, 05/15/12

Addiction expert

There is an inescapable conceptual struggle when dealing with America's volatile history of, and attitudes towards, substance use. In other words, the meaning of addiction is a never-ending American, and thus worldwide, cultural debate.

Linda Bacon, Ph.D., MA, MA, 05/14/12

Author, Researcher, Professor

By focusing on health, we can address real health concerns, giving both fat and thin people the support they deserve and avoiding stigmatizing people and worsening the problem.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., 05/14/12

Psychologist, author of 'The Now Effect' and co-author, 'A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook'

Just because our brains have been altered by addiction, doesn't mean we're destined to fall into the same habits. With the right skills, community and support we can learn how to break out of routine and into a life worth living.