March 2026

  • What to Eat While Taking a GLP-1 Medication Like Ozempic

    What to Eat While Taking a GLP-1 Medication Like Ozempic

    GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are changing the way millions of people experience hunger, fullness, and their relationship with food. The medications work, and for many people they work dramatically. But the conversation around what to eat while taking them has not kept pace with how widely they are now prescribed. Most…

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  • How to Start a Mindfulness Practice in 5 Minutes a Day

    How to Start a Mindfulness Practice in 5 Minutes a Day

    The most common reason people give for not having a mindfulness practice is time. Five minutes sounds almost too short to matter, and for people who have heard that serious meditators sit for thirty to sixty minutes daily, it can feel like a beginner’s five-minute session is not worth the effort of establishing as a…

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  • 10 Low-Impact Workouts That Are Harder Than They Look

    10 Low-Impact Workouts That Are Harder Than They Look

    Low-impact exercise has an image problem. Most people associate it with rehabilitation, with older adults, or with people who are not yet fit enough for real training. The assumption is that if your feet are not pounding the pavement and your heart is not hammering at maximum capacity, you are not working hard enough to…

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  • Readers Ask: How Do I Build Wellness Habits That Actually Stick?

    Readers Ask: How Do I Build Wellness Habits That Actually Stick?

    Of all the questions that arrive in the inbox of a wellness publication, this one shows up most consistently and in the most variations. How do I get myself to exercise regularly? Why do I start eating well for two weeks and then stop? What is wrong with me that I know exactly what I…

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  • 7 Preventive Health Screenings Most People Skip and Why They Matter

    7 Preventive Health Screenings Most People Skip and Why They Matter

    There is a fundamental mismatch between how most people engage with the healthcare system and when that engagement is most effective. Most adults see a doctor when something hurts, when a symptom has persisted long enough to become alarming, or when a condition has progressed far enough to interfere with daily function. By that point,…

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  • Does Talking to Yourself Really Help? The Science Says Yes

    Does Talking to Yourself Really Help? The Science Says Yes

    Most people who catch themselves talking out loud to no one in particular feel a small flash of self-consciousness about it. The cultural association between talking to yourself and being slightly unhinged runs deep enough that adults routinely suppress the behavior in public and feel mildly embarrassed about it in private. The science has arrived…

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  • The Ultimate Guide to Recovery After Exercise

    The Ultimate Guide to Recovery After Exercise

    Every training program worth following is built on two elements that receive unequal attention. The first is the workout itself, which gets the planning, the tracking, and almost all of the cultural attention that fitness receives. The second is recovery, which determines whether the workout produced the adaptations it was designed to produce or simply…

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  • How a 68-Year-Old Transformed Her Health With 3 Small Daily Habits

    How a 68-Year-Old Transformed Her Health With 3 Small Daily Habits

    Margaret did not set out to transform her health. That is not how she would describe what happened, and the word transform would make her uncomfortable because it implies a dramatic before-and-after story that she does not think is accurate. What she would say is that three years ago she felt old in a way…

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