So How Do I Know When I’m 80% Full?

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Sometimes, when I’m really starving (or eating at my favorite Mediterranean restaurant), I go straight from 0% to 110% full without even realizing it. There’s no pause, no warning, no hint to stop forking up every last bite — and suddenly I can’t move.

Is Exercising Making You Look And Feel Older?

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In search of the fountain of youth, you’ve probably turned to exercise to add as many healthy years to your life as possible. But is what you’re doing at the gym really making you feel younger and more productive?

Fitness Equipment That Changed My Life

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What’s in your home gym? Get the most bang for your buck with this multipurpose fitness equipment.

Raise Taxes to Fight Obesity?

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With obesity as a growing epidemic in this country, would it make sense to tax foods like trans fats and high fructose corn syrup so that making food with them became outrageously expensive? Would increasing taxes on those types of foods actually help people to eat good healthy foods?

Beach Body After Baby? It is Possible!

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If your new go-go-go lifestyle isn’t melting away the baby weight, here’s extra help from the pros and the mamas who’ve been there.

How Do I Get Off This Plateau? I Worked So Hard To Get Here

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Thinking you’re watching calories and eating the right foods? A plateau may point to nutrition missteps you didn’t consider.

Why Eating “Simply” Isn’t So Simple

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OK, Pollan and Pasternak: If eating simply were so simple, wouldn’t we be doing it already?