Health and Fitness

The 7th annual Telluride Yoga Fest takes place this week, July 10 – July 13, with a class for all levels of practitioners: 4-day Guru pass, $495; 3-day Namaste pass, $395; 3-class pass, $108; all-day intensive, $150. Buy here now. Rock stars jump-started the yoga boom in...

As reported in this article in the New York Times, "the Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead." The state’s highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City’s controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city’s final appeal and dashing the hopes...

Corporate wellness programs. They are the new black dress of healthcare. Everywhere. All the rage. [caption id="attachment_42234" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Life Dojo team, Patrica Bedard, Chris Cutter, Varun Vummidi[/caption] The term refers to any program designed to improve and promote health and fitness behavior and to improve health...

I love to mountain bike. But, I hate the logistics. I hate fumbling with car racks, bike pumps, C02 cartridges, shock pumps, chain tools, pedal screws and allen wrenches. However, as a girl playing in a male-dominated sport, I’ve always made sure I could manage...

James Hamblin, MD and Senior Editor at The Atlantic, debunks the popular media claims that sugar is toxic and discusses what to make of the intense disagreement about the recommendations to replace table sugar with high-fructose corn syrup with "natural" sweeteners like agave nectar or...

Robert Krulwich has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide. Krulwich, a Science Correspondent for NPR , gives his take on the world of chocolate and how it might just save the planet. "When you unwrap it, break off a piece and stick...