Health and Fitness Archive

All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness - Sheila Hamilton’s business is getting the story. She does it very well --- as a television reporter, she’s won five Emmys. In Portland, Oregon, where she hosts the morning drive-time

Esther Perel: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Adultery - It sometimes happens that I praise a writer and then we meet and discover we like one another. That’s how a couples therapist and I became friends. And then, later,

Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family - Our daughter, knock wood, is as healthy as a child can be. Some of that is good genes (my wife) and some of it is dumb luck and some of

Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World: 80+ Recipes for a Greener Planet and a Healthier You - We seem to have reached a point when simple decency has become a radical political act. You and I, we are decent people. We may not know how to deal with

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers - I came close to not graduating from high school because I was a total idiot in Science. At college, to satisfy the Science requirement, I took Evolution because it was

Healing through Exercise: Scientifically-Proven Ways to Prevent and Overcome Illness and Lengthen Your Life - In the forest, sick animals hide and rest until they’re better. That is perhaps the origin of “bed rest” as a cure for sick people. If so, that’s inspired a

Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being - Andrew Weil is America's best-known revolutionary. You know him as a doctor --- a pioneer in what he calls Integrative Medicine --- who gets around in the very best media

Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously - Every fall, I watch the New York Marathon. Each fall, I think: I must work out more. Bill McKibben, the noted environmental writer, had this same feeling in 1998. He was then

Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better – and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own - I’ve been thinking that some of my physical complaints might be side effects of the meds I take. Like Lipitor, which was, for many years, the most frequently prescribed drug

On Pluto, Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s - Guest Blogger Gerald Secor Couzens,the author of more than two dozen health books, is the managing editor of The Scientific American Memory Disorders Bulletin, a 45-page print quarterly for people

Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against the Odds - The New York Times noted that at a recent meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, the 18,500 researchers and other professionals were treated to only a single poster

Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide - We tend to think any kind of healing that originated in Asia is thousands of years old. We imagine that hermetic monks took it for decades of test

REWRITING ILLNESS: A VIEW OF MY OWN - Why do people say “full disclosure?” Isn’t “disclosure” sufficient? Here’s mine: I know Elizabeth Benedict slightly. Every Mother’s Day, I recommend her book, “What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women

See you in September? Yes, but I leave these for you - SHOPPING ON AMAZON: The business model of this site is Amazon. You start here, buy something there, Butler gets a commission. And not just on the item reviewed. Anything you

Self-Care: What the President Didn’t Say - Depending on where you sit, President Obama’s speech about health care was either a long-overdue line in the sand or, as the Congressman from South Carolina would have it, a

Shriver Report: Amelia Clark, Medical Missionary - Last winter, as veteran readers of this site may recall, our community raised funds for a medical mission to Honduras. Now four students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and

The Other Side of the Mirror: Marion Woodman’s Legacy of Looking Deeply at Women’s Eating Disorders - GUEST BUTLER LORRAINE KREAHLING is on the planning board of the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, a 77-year-old Quaker organization with an interest in Jungian psychology. She has

The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards - Guest Butler Lorraine Kreahling has contributed regularly to the New York Times, including writing about yoga for the science section. She recently completed “The Green Hotel,” a memoir that explores the

The Square Foot Garden: Gardening Made Easy - During the pandemic, having enough land for a garden was a status symbol --- it meant you'd escaped the urban hellscape and were living the updated version of the good

Thinner This Year - Like millions and millions of people on the East Coast, I’ve been inside for months now. If anxiety burned calories, I’d be a stick. It doesn’t. The result: status as