New Year, New Practice By Jeff Primack During qigong practice a powerful pulsation of blood can be felt in the body. People are often surprised at how warm they feel after making just a few hand movements. Qigong moves a lot of blood and generates copious energywithout lots of movement or stress. Often people ask, […]
By Benedict Carey They were young males on the make, and they struck out not once, not twice, but a dozen times with a group of attractive females hovering nearby. So they did what so many men do after being repeatedly rejected: they got drunk, using alcohol as a balm for unfulfilled desire. And not […]
By Elizabeth Barker Love it or hate it, “that new car smell” is usually a cocktail of bad-for-you chemicals. If you’re looking to minimize your exposure, a new report from theEcology Center (a group that performs tests on toxic chemicals in consumer products) says a Honda Civic’s your best bet. Tests on more than 200 […]
The first cookbook I ever owned was Adele Davis’ Let’s Cook It Right, and to this day I still use some of her recipes. I’d been raised in a meat ‘n’ potatoes family, so many of her ideas were very eye-opening for me. I’ll never forget my first bowl of granola with wheat germ and […]
According to a poll released by the National Sleep Foundation, only 28 percent of us get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night, and 20 percent of us don’t even get six.
Baywatch star Alexandra Paul helps women find a voice By Maria Fotopoulos International Women’s Day, Earth Day and Mother’s Day celebrate women and honor mothers—those we birth, those who birth us, and the one that provides for us every day of our lives: Mother Earth. So how fares the female half of the world’s population? […]
Written and directed by Elizabeth Browning If you live in an urban center of the United States and make it to the age of 40, it’s almost guaranteed that at some point you’re going to look in the mirror and be appalled to see a few wrinkles, or as one ingenuous three-year old described this […]
California’s labeling ballot could change the way our country eats
My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life Book by Priscilla Warner Hobbled by panic attacks that leave her gasping and almost immobilized, Priscilla Warner undertakes a journey to find the peace that has eluded her for as long as she can remember. In the process she reconnects with emotional pivot points, learns the […]
Directed by Marisa Miller Wolfson What happens when you get three committed carnivores to agree to eating—gulp!—vegan for six weeks? You turn a few lives upside down and open their eyes not only to a different way of eating but to a gruesome side of the meat industry. Writer/director Marisa Miller Wolfson uses a lighthearted […]