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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.

Lose Weight Permanently with Ayurveda Is simply being an American making you fat? This plan for what, when and how to eat to lose weight and keep it off for life is based on Ayurveda and European ideas about food.

Stand By Your Mantra for a New Attitude How to get started using mantras, how to choose a mantra, insight on the origin of mantras and their power for better well-being, and tips on using mantras to help with anything you're struggling with.

Detox Without Fasting: 2 Easy Plans Tips to help you make the most of nature's detox plan. How to do a daily cleanse and a seasonal or quarterly detox just by shifting your sleep schedule and eating some everyday detoxifying foods.

1-2-3 Detox for Radiance Gone overboard with indulgences lately? Look radiant in 24 hours, luminous in 48, and positively sparkly in 72. Step-by-step plan gives 3 ways to detox plus 7 recipes.

Healthy Holiday Party Food: 10 Tips + 3 Recipes You don’t have to be a nutritional saint during the holidays. Sneaky substitution tips and delicious-yet-virtuous recipes from chef and healthy eating coach Michele Morris make a big difference with just a few small changes.

Veggie Thanksgiving Tips & Recipes Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be all about that big bird in the middle of your dinner table. This year, we’ll be making meatless options a bigger focus on our menu. But I will miss the wishbone!

Are plastic water bottles a health hazard? Is it true that refilling and reusing some types of plastic bottles can cause health problems? Straight talk about the research on how unsafe single-use plastic bottles are, and how to avoid the dangers.

Crazy Sexy Cancer: Tips from Survivors It's not your typical cancer book. Kris Carr and her “Cancer Babe Posse” share hard-earned insights, hints, “hell-yeahs” and real, fun, crazy, sexy ways to live with cancer.

Healthy Halloween! 5 Tips + 3 Recipes Make this spooky holiday healthier for kids of all ages — and still have a monster of a good time. Try these alternatives to candy for trick-or-treat time, plus three recipes for healthier Halloween treats.