How I Got My Husband to Take Care of His Body (Even Though He Just Wants to Take Care of Me)
If it takes being a "controlling wife" to make my husband value his own health over his love for his family, I'm going to do it.
Health care
Delicious Food Is Not an Indulgence—It’s a Way to Solve Our Ecological Crises
Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.
“Escape Fire” Doc Explores the Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
Beyond the Affordable Care Act, the film explores how to make a healthier America.
These 5 NFL Players Are Changing What It Means to Be a Man in Football
Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin is not the only NFL player to challenge the league's bigotry and misogyny. These five men stand for a new kind of masculinity.
Dear Michelle Obama: If We Want to Curb Childhood Obesity, Sesame Street Is Not Going to Cut It
Can a licensing deal between Sesame Street and the Produce Marketing Association truly improve childhood health? Maybe, but grassroots solutions already exist.
Why Do Nuns Outlive the Rest of Us? Six Tips for Healthy Aging
The good news is that you don't have to live in a convent to do the things that keep these nuns healthy and happy.
The Mass Shooting That Didn’t Happen: Averting Violence with Kindness
What can we do to help men like Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter, find another way to deal with their trauma? The story of Michael Hill suggests that kindness is part of the answer.
A Marathon Runner’s Lessons for a Saner Civilization
Long-distance running demands that athletes pace themselves and keep the future in mind. Might they have something to teach those who want to create a sustainable society?
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
When author Florence Williams learned her breast milk contained chemicals like flame retardants, she started investigating what exactly is in a breast and how that body part connects us to our children, our past, and our surroundings.
Me Too: A Letter to Steubenville’s Jane Doe
After her essay on raising boys to respect women went viral, an incredible outpouring of support gave author Kim Simon the courage to tell the story she really wanted to share: how her own healing from rape came from knowing she wasn’t alone.
Don’t Like Your Health Insurance? Make Your Own
The Affordable Care Act hopes to drive expansion of health care co-ops.
How To Raise Boys to be Kind Men
What can we do to help young men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual relationships? Teach them kindness to others—and the courage to go against the crowd.
People Used to Sleep Twice a Night, With a Break in Between: 7 Ways to Connect With Our Wild Human Roots
Color like a butterfly, eat like an ancient healer, and other ways to rediscover your inner wildness.
Your Body is a Body of Water
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
The Hazards of Manhood
Am I tough enough? Am I powerful enough? Men put their bodies at risk to cover up pain, fear, and vulnerability.
Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Online Tools Help Doctors Listen Up
Does your doctor understand what you need? These simple tools are helping practitioners slow down and communicate better with patients.
6 Ways Communities Put Health First
From play space for kids to AIDS activism: the fight against disease goes grassroots.
Notes from the Frontlines of Bringing Up Girls
What I really want to tell my daughters about autonomy and sex, in the midst of a war on women.
9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health (Without Joining a Gym)
Laughter, the arts, touch, sleep. What you can do in your everyday life to get healthier.
Detroit’s Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Taking Charge of Our Bodies
It's more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.
You Can’t Be Healthy in a Sick Ecosystem
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
Eve Ensler: Freedom Starts With a “V”
The “Vagina Monologues” author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
Deb Richter: A Cure for Broken Health Care
Meet the doctor who uprooted her life to bring universal health care to Vermont.
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