To celebrate our first trip around the sun, we’ve picked some of our best advice for living well everyday.
There is nothing magical about 10,000 steps a day. So feel free to let go of that goal, writes Your Move columnist Gretchen Reynolds. New research shows that for men and women younger than 60, the greatest benefit came with step counts of between about 8,000 and 10,000 per day.
Many popular packaged foods — breads, cereals, snack chips and frozen meals — have been refined, pounded, heated, melted, shaped, extruded and packed with additives, explains Anahad O’Connor, our Eating Lab columnist.
Here’s an antidote to an ever-stressful, busy and uncertain world. Try finding and savoring little bites of joy in your day. Our Brain Matters columnist, Richard Sima, calls them “joy” snacks. Pet a cat. Savor a cup of coffee.
One thing we’ve learned from our Ask a Doctor columnist Trisha Pasricha is that no topic is off limits with your doctor. Readers have asked a lot of questions about poop.
Another great tip from Pasricha is to use your camera phone to snap pictures of things that seem weird, including your poop. “We love seeing pictures of stool!” says Pasricha. If you get a tick bite, take a picture of the tick.