7 Habits That Could Lower Your Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

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.

Vanessa Cullins, 05/14/12

Vice President for External Medical Affairs, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Your health should come first, but when you're a healthy and busy working adult, you tend to forget how quickly the time flies. There's never enough money or time, and too often our health falls to the bottom of the list.

Charles Duhigg, 05/14/12

Reporter, The New York Times

In the last decade, our understanding of the neurology of habit formation has been transformed. We've learned how habits form -- and why they are so hard to break.

Noah Kass, 05/14/12

Licensed clinical social worker

To be an essential member of a personally fulfilling group can be very empowering. However, it can also keep you stuck. In order to experience real growth, we need to challenge the sometimes staid comfort of staying put.

Gregg McBride, 05/14/12

Author, screenwriter and blogger

Are you sure you were enjoying a delicious filet mignon the last time you went out to a fancy steakhouse? Or were you eating pieces of stew-quality meat that were "glued" together to form what resembled a filet mignon, but was actually anything but?

Arianna Huffington, 05/13/12

My mother embodied the qualities that we need to grow into as we grow older -- especially simplicity and a connection with the sacred. For all those blessed to be in her orbit, it felt as if these dimensions of life were taken care of.

Donna Henes, 05/13/12

Urban shaman, eco-ceremonialist, ritual expert and consultant

This Mother's Day, let us toast our universal Maternal Creatrix, our mutual Mother Earth, our biological mothers, and our own mothering impulses with the nurturing milk of human kindness.

Dr. Isaac Eliaz, 05/13/12

Dr. Isaac Eliaz is a respected clinical practitioner

The strong life energy of the spring moves our emotions, and if we are listening, we can find the places where our energy is stuck -- the places that need healing.