First Lady Michelle Obama is stressing small changes in diet and exercise habits as a good way to improve health and fitness....
Sadie Nardini | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
I'm not a dude. However, I teach enough of you to be an expert in GUYS, or the Guy's Unawareness of Yoga Syndrome, which culminates in a few different ways.
Kim Bensen | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
Quality time has to be made, not found. But that is the one thing Super(wo)man lacks. The fallout: an unfit, overweight, weak body.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
Yoga cannot guarantee breast cancer survival. But what I learned, and what I believe my students learned is that yoga can reacquaint and reconnect you with your body.
William Volk | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
More than 12.5 million children are overweight in the U.S., up from 13 % in 1999. One would expect schools to be encouraging students to exercise more. One would be sadly mistaken.
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Do you have a body part that you absolutely hate and sometimes feel ashamed of? Are you constantly finding ways to cover it up or hide it?
Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
I spent most of 2007 feeling pretty spectacular about myself. For the first time in my life, I had a flat stomach and thighs that didn't rub together when I wore skirts or dresses. Then I got pregnant.
Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Yin yoga is not a new form, but rather a return to more meditative, traditional yoga. The emphasis is not on a lack of pain, but rather on how to feel discomfort, stay with it and move through it.
latimes.com | Jeannine Stein | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
What's on a podcast that could make the difference between losing a modest amount of weight and losing next to none, according to a new study out of t...
Brooke Siler | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Because sitting tends to be a passive activity for most, muscles you'd think would relax -- after all they seem to be doing so little -- actually stiffen. Here are some ways I like to make travel time bearable.
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
I am examined, scrutinized and commented upon. "I didn't have lines like those on my lips when I was your age," my mother says in the bright lights of her marble bathroom.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
This superficially focused yet deeply-ingrained striving for some unattainable, deprivation-based goal can easily overcome a good life, and swallow it whole. And those feelings can turn deadly for some of us, or at the very least, consistently ruin our days.
Will Rogers | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
The health benefits of parks are well established, especially when parks are easily accessible and well-maintained.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
After 15 years of conversations with two types of people--those who crave personal growth, and those who don't, I have come to believe that for many people, there are some darn good reasons not to do yoga...
Jake Steinfeld | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
To imply, as Time magazine did, that we shouldn't be working out or playing sports because exercising alone won't help us get thin is missing the point of exercise entirely.
Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living
There are some simple moves you can start making as soon as your body feels up to it that can make all the difference in rebounding your body post-birth.
Beth Arnold | Posted 09.07.2009 | Style
I felt a deep pull to Africa that I've not felt anywhere else in the world. Wildfitness was physically tough -- an exotic luxurious boot camp -- that captured our souls.
Arthur Agatston, M.D. | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
No matter what health care delivery system this country adopts, no matter what plan or series of plans are enacted, it will be bankrupted in no time b...
Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
We are the sole controllers of what go into our pet's mouths so we must govern what we feed our pets and how to help them control their weight.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
I dropped 20 pounds when I created my own yoga style specifically to turn the body into a fatburning machine.
Dennis Markatos | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York
The policy helps New Rochelle and Westchester County take the lead toward becoming a bike friendly community.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
Many top teachers actually think that unless you live according to a vegetarian and therefore, more "cruelty-free" existence, the gates of yogi heaven here on earth remain firmly closed to you.
Stefan Aschan | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
I see individuals running with forward headed shoulders, holding on to the treadmill, not lifting up their heels ... I can go on. Here are some simple guidelines to follow when you run.
blog.newsweek.com | Kate Dailey | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
More than 13 years ago, as Scott Strode was struggling to get his drinking and drug use under control, the gym in Boston where he boxed offered refuge...
Posted 10.13.2009 | Living