Having compassion leads to increased happiness, freedom from gender stereotypes, and better relationships with others.
Health care
Researchers continue to debate whether people face a genuine trade-off between seeking a happy life and a meaningful one.
Since I quit watching porn a year ago, I've become more present in the moment, more loving, and a better friend to the women in my life.
When he was just 14 years old, Zach Sobiech learned that he had only a few years to live. He decided to use that time creating beautiful music, and inspired a lot of people while doing so.
Whether you live in the ‘burbs, the city, or the middle of nowhere, the "wonder drug" of walking is just what the doctor ordered.
“Our philosophy is good, clean, and fair food: Good because it is healthy and tasty; clean because it is produced with low environmental impact and with animal welfare in mind; and fair because it respects the work of those who produce, process, and distribute it.”
I am a Muckleshoot Indian, but little of what I used to eat bore much connection with the landscape I lived in, which had fed my ancestors for many generations. When I discovered nettle tea, it was as if I were remembering what it was like to feel well.
Visit the remote kitchen of a writers' refuge where Dorothy Allison, Ruth Ozeki, and other women discovered radical hospitality for the body and soul.
A doctor discovers exposure to healthy farm soil holds keys to healthy bodies.
Two videos making the rounds online show us what happens when boys embrace their vulnerability and support one another's emotional needs.
We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But here's why Michael Pollan says cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis.
After I was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, I figured out how to get healthy without giving up my favorite foods.
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.
Food became my teacher, and I aligned my taste buds with what the people and planet need.
Beyond the Affordable Care Act, the film explores how to make a healthier America.
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.
Can a licensing deal between Sesame Street and the Produce Marketing Association truly improve childhood health? Maybe, but grassroots solutions already exist.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
The Affordable Care Act hopes to drive expansion of health care co-ops.
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.
Color like a butterfly, eat like an ancient healer, and other ways to rediscover your inner wildness.
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