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Besides its own bright taste and vitamin C punch, it amps up the flavor and nutrition of other foods, too.

Can a simple injection quiet the throat muscle's vibration in noisy sleepers?

Tapping into your inner Wonder Woman may actually be an issue of matter over mind.

I know you’ll be rethinking your next meal after seeing these stats. I am!

Where do celebrities, studio execs, and ungodly amounts of snow collide? The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. I’m chilling (literally—it’s 14 degrees!) at the ski resort for a couple days thanks to GlaxoSmithKline, the pharma company. GSK brought a bunch of health journalists out to the mountains to talk about alli, the diet pill, and announce some news about the brand.

Here, we tallied the size of 100-calorie portions of your favorite desk-side treats.

Dark, chilly days may be the culprit for an ailment besides seasonal affective disorder.

No Aspen escape in this year's travel plans? Snowshoe guru Ron Rash offers strategies that will work in your local park...or backyard. Cycle through these snowshoe steps for 30 minutes, and you'll burn up to 450 calories.

1. Run a lap (it could be around your house or block), pumping arms up and down.

2. Stake out a small hill, about 100 yards (it doesn't need to be steep). Sprint up, then take an easy jog down. Repeat three times.

3. Find the closest stretch of snow pileup. Using the claws in the front of the snowshoes to dig into the snow, step up and down the pile in a zigzag pattern, from one end of the snowbank to the other.

Ever wonder who those people are, streaming out of the gym at 6 a.m., all finished with that early-bird Spin class and raring to tackle the day? They're mutants—at least according to a recent article in Science. A variation of the DEC2 gene—known as the insomnia gene—allows some humans to feel refreshed and energetic after just six hours of sleep. Mice with the mutant gene spend an hour-and-a-half longer each day on the running wheel compared to their counterparts. Humans born with the gene just make the rest of us feel bad.

Marathons. Carb-free diets. Enough with the grandiose resolutions! This year, stick to your usual habits, but vow to make one small daily change that promises to have you celebrating by next New Year's Eve.

3 reasons to pile it on this Thanksgiving.

Give yourself an easy brain boost with this food.

The Lunch hour; those pivotal 60 minutes of the day where you steal away from the office, fuel up for the afternoon, or run an errand or two — you could call lunch the most versatile hour of the day, if not the most powerful. From checking in with your shrink to schmoozing clients or cutting back on your daily spending, we’ve counted down some of the best ways to spend your lunch hour and what to eat while doing it.

1. Lunch Time Activism: Between munching on pita chips you can change the world for the better. Amnesty International’s protectthehuman.org offers a variety of ways you can do some good on your lunch hour.

2. Deftly Navigating Office Politics: Sure you’ve left high school behind you but choosing who to have lunch with can still impact both you social life and career.

3. Trimming Your Spending: Since the recession began the brown bag has become more fashionable around the office but is it worth it? If you stack up your home made sandwich against a store bough on -- cent-by-cent -- how much are you really saving?

4. Trimming Your Waistline: From sandwiches to soup to pizza, we’ve got a ton of great recopies that will go easy on your wallet, keep you fit and help you take back the time you waste in the deli line.

5. Find out Whether You Really Need to Eat Lunch at All:Three women challenge their bodies by dramatically switching up their eating routines. From six meals a day to eating only once in a 24-hour period, they try to figure out just how often you really need food.

For more ideas on how to make the most of your lunch hour, keep reading.

Surprising facts about that time of the month.

Multitasking items under $30 to help you build a proper kitchen arsenal.

Heidi Swanson of 101cookbooks.com gives you meat-free alternatives that will tempt even the hard-core carnivores.

No Halloween celebration is complete without drinks to match your costume. Try these cocktail recipes.

Here, Top Chef runner-up Stefan Richter's straight-from-the-stove tips.

Master mixer Dave Wondrich shakes up MC's signature Turkey Blaster to fight off the food coma.