Category: Health & Wellness

  • Be More Productive: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

    You know the drill: You get into work bright and early, hoping to get a jump start on your day. But meetings and happenstance start to pile up, and before you know it, it’s 5:30 and you’ve barely gotten anything done. So you have to burn the midnight oil — and wake up early again…

  • Feeling Blue? That’s OK!

    Dinsa Sachan is a science and culture journalist based in New Delhi, India Perhaps we should consider realigning ourselves with the Romantics, who as a group found solace in freely expressing emotions in poetry. In his ‘Ode on Melancholy’ (1820), for example, John Keats wrote: ‘Ay, in the very temple of Delight, / Veil’d Melancholy has…

  • 7 Sneaky One-Minute Mood Boosters

    By Lisa Elaine Held Deep, lasting happiness generally comes from major shifts in things like lifestyle or perspective. That might mean taking on a meditation practice, or making big-picture changes to your diet. But there are small yet effective steps you can take when you need an in-the-moment mood boost. For this piece in our #AMinuteForMe series with youtheory®,…

  • Garden Your Way to Better Mental Health

    By Jeffrey Zurofsky Spring has come at last, and that means that about one-third of Americans are getting ready to plant a garden. According to the National Gardening Association, the number of households growing their own food has increased by 17 percent over the last decade, with millennials (ages 18 to 34) taking the lead. That’s great…

  • What To Eat To Improve Your Mood, Why Pets Are Good For Your Health & More

    By Megan O. Steintrager A Doggone Good Probiotic If you have pets, you probably already know about their ability to ease your anxiety and, in the case of dogs, how they insist you get out in the fresh air for exercise. Now it turns out that all the dirt they drag back into the house after…