The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation's top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.
Your body is not your enemy in midlife or older age. It’s trying to tell you something. It wants longer evenings without food. It wants a break from constant digestion. It wants the chance to clean up yesterday’s cellular mess before today’s begins. When you give it that space, everything becomes easier.
When I am at peace, I usually feel patient; when I am both peaceful and patient, I am more inclined to be kind. We sometimes forget that these qualities are within us all.
The new standard goes beyond body mass index (BMI) to include waist and hip measurements that reveal hidden fat conventional BMI misses. By doing so, it captures millions of Americans whose weight appears “normal” but whose fat distribution signals a higher risk for metabolic disease.
Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. What happens in your mouth during those first minutes and hours after eating those sweets?
Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one bucket of paint at a time — as people are painting crosswalks across L.A. to protect pedestrians.
Like intuition and connections to other states and levels of consciousness, connection with your dreaming life is not a unique power or ability that one simply has or does not have; rather it is a relationship that can be cultivated.
Make concerted efforts to identify seniors who live alone and are seriously ill early and provide them with expanded support. Stay in touch with them regularly through calls, video, or text messages.
It’s 42% of Colombia’s territory. It’s 7% of the total Amazon rainforest. And it’s now free from future oil and mineral extraction as Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon — an area the size of Sweden.
Rogan recently cited data from a 2024 study that shows Earth’s temperature over the last 485 million years. Temperatures have varied, and yes, our current time period is the coolest it's been in a long time.
It is only after scientists made key advances in imaging technology and acoustic physics in recent years that the promise of ultrasound is being realized in the clinic. Hundreds of clinical trials aimed at treating dozens of conditions have been completed or are ongoing.
According to researchers, even a few minutes of chewing gum exposes you to hundreds — sometimes thousands — of microplastics. These particles include the same plastics used to make grocery bags, plastic bottles and even car tires.
December 1: Thanks to the waxing Aries Moon’s trine with Mars the day and month set off at blazing speeds. The Sun and Venus join Mars in cheerful Sagittarius. With a strong planetary emphasis in fire signs there is plenty…
Every relationship is different, but the invitation is the same. Let intimacy be a place where both people can be fully human, tender, uncertain, playful and honest, and where slow and kind attention matters more than any idea of perfection.
What confuses doctors is Candida is considered a normal part of our flora. It is a commensal, meaning that it lives within our bodies without causing harm. But Candida can become our enemy if the micro-biome’s diversity is harmed or disrupted.
We can consciously create a new vibrational frequency for the body to resonate with, rather than defaulting to old patterns. By emotionally feeling into a new, positive future for oneself, we can teach the body to align with the mind’s eye to feel the energy of the new emotion.
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two, proving to the scientists onboard that they were seeing a species that had never before been seen in the wild: a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.
Here’s three super simple ideas to have fun and save a little money while giving thoughtful, useful herbal gifts this season.
Imagine this: you’ve woken up one morning, years into recovery, and realized your inner critic has gone quiet. Not vanished; it’s just quieter. It’s still there, but softer, its voice less convincing. In its place, a calmer tone — patient, maybe even playful.
In our everyday lives we are all assessors. We assess everything that happens to us and assign some sort of meaning to it. This meaning, however, cannot be not derived from the circumstance or event itself, but rather from our unconscious, personal and subjective assessment of it.
For a company that makes half the world’s zippers, new ideas have big impacts. YKK's innovative new tapeless zipper saves tons of fabric scraps while creating a better fit on your clothes.
The ease at which we avoid hard emotions is not solely a factor of our dependence on rapid-fire digital stimulation. There’s more to it, and it speaks to all the messages that have made their way into our collective consciousness about feeling, or rather not feeling.
For decades, the standard approach to treating constipation involved high-fiber diets or over-the-counter laxatives. Yet, one recent study found that eating a small, nutrient-dense fruit — kiwifruit — offers surprising benefits in easing this common bowel issue.
Affirm the visions and values you want for your future, and understand you have the power to project thought, and reality responds with manifestation. Make all of your positive feelings as big as you can, then share them with like-minded others in person to amplify those feelings within yourself and the world around you.
By simply noticing and speaking up about unwanted and unacceptable workplace behaviour, even if it’s happening to someone else, you can help to change it. By having a zero tolerance attitude to bullying, you can help shatter the destructive silence that often grows in toxic workplaces.
Rather than simply surviving winter, we can approach it as a season to learn, adapt and deepen resilience. Making time your ally, seeking wonder outdoors, cultivating joy and practicing meditation and mindfulness are all ways to engage meaningfully with the season.
At the WSJ Innovator Awards where Billie Eilish was honored with the Music Innovator Award, during her acceptance speech she called on the world's wealthiest people in attendance to donate part of their fortune to those in need, like her recent $11.5 million donation towards climate justice and environmental work.
Deep in your history, your ancestors — your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, as far back as you can imagine and then some — had a dream, an image, a vision of what they hoped for the lives of their descendants. You are that dream.
Holotropic Breathwork® is a powerful approach to self-exploration, transformation and healing that combines breathwork, evocative music and focused release work.
Perfectionism tells us that we are worthy only when everything is in order. It creates constant pressure to prove and perform. And when we inevitably fall short because we’re human, it triggers shame, guilt, or self-criticism.
If you're trying to use hot baths as a natural therapy to boost your circulation, lower inflammation, or support immune function, you're on the right track — but only if you're smart about how you do it.
When students are taught about shame, the goal is to help future physicians recognize the emotion in themselves and others, so they don’t perpetuate the cycle. Shame remains “a crack in your armor you don’t want to show. Heaven forbid you act like you’re not capable or show fear.
Private nonprofits and celebrities continue to show up in support of those impacted by the government shutdown. Furloughed federal workers eat for free at Bon Jovi's 'Pay It Forward' restaurant, as an estimated 1.4 million federal workers enter a fourth week either furloughed or working without pay.
Kind giving is a great way to expand the canvas of our lives in difficult moments, turning negatives into positives, heartaches into peace. The volume of our generosity in time or dollars does not matter. Small helping acts are as beneficial to the giver as big ones.
As long as there is no recognition that what is occurring on the outside is merely a reflection of what's going on inside, daily life will continue to appear totally random and unpredictable, also causing its own confusion, fear and apprehension.
Wildflowers need space, water, sun and clean air to survive and thrive. A healthy ecosystem flourishes while a toxic one becomes a wasteland. The time is now to be proactive in protecting what open space we have left.
November 1: Today’s skies are dominated by a powerful water sign Grand Trine configuration. Wisdom and common sense seamlessly blend with instincts and emotions. The waxing Pisces Moon is nearing her full stage, prompting plenty of feelings. Let sentiments, both…
Nearly 80,000 adults from different backgrounds were followed for close to two decades, as researchers looked beyond step counts to ask a deeper question — could the pace of your walk reveal more about its impact on your health and longevity than time alone?
Once hammered by overhunting and habitat loss, sea turtles have persevered and are rebounding worldwide with new conservation efforts such as nest and habitat protection, says 2025 NOAA study.
Embracing waiting in small moments in your everyday life serves as a teacher, priming you to see opportunities for larger life stage pauses when they present themselves. It helps us build comfort in the unknown.
170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska due to a remarkable partnership and serious negotiations with the nation’s largest museum.
Too many people operate on autopilot, bored with their lives and feeling restless. Need help getting out of your comfort zone? The changes you make do not have to be major.
Addiction prevention and recovery, from a Taoist perspective, involves keeping the energy channels open and clear or reopening and clearing them out again if there is a need to do so. Then, the person can feel like they have space to deal with their life circumstances.
If you don’t already have a practice that helps you connect to other-than-human creatures, try any of the following six activities to begin one. They are all short and simple, and they can be done in any outdoor space.
We live in a world that constantly urges us to capture, document, and record. Phones in our hands make it easy to photograph a meal, or share a view. But not every experience is meant to be preserved in that way. Some moments ask only to be lived.
Many people keep Benadryl in their medicine cabinet because it's what they grew up with. Few stop to question whether the drug itself has kept pace with modern science or whether newer options could offer the same relief without the risks.
The world has always been a mix of vastly different cultures, races, religions, and belief systems. Much has changed over time because of movements for social equality, particularly during the last 50 years, and now there is no turning back.
Hamas on Monday released the last 20 living hostages from Gaza as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. In exchange, Israel was expected to release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners later on Monday.
Once we pass around 60, the systems in the brain and body that govern thirst lose their previous sensitivity. The hypothalamic osmoreceptors that once reacted quickly to rising sodium levels or falling fluid volume just don’t sound the alarm the way they used to.
Understanding this whole-body experience of grief helps us see why plant allies can offer such meaningful support. Herbs work with multiple systems simultaneously, addressing both the physical manifestations of grief and the emotional weight we carry.
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