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Discover expert analysis and the modern take on wellness, brought to you by Marie Claire.
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9 Reasons Why You Should Rely Less On Your Phone
Features Steven Macari, founder of the SLVRBK mat, Nutritionist at Drive 495 and holistic health practitioner, on why it might not make sense to completely ditch your phone but why you should learn to make it a much smaller part of your life.
By Steven Macari Published
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Can you be Heavy and Healthy?
Are BMI charts a load of BS? New research shows good health may have nothing to do with your body mass index.
By Virginia Sole-Smith Published
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Head Case: Living with Chronic Migraines
To the outside world, glamorous, model-pretty writer Tia Williams seemed to have it all. Inside, she struggled with ugly, crippling headaches.
By Tia Williams Published
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The Petite Advantage: Small Changes for a Big Impact
A nutrition expert's latest book, specifically designed to help busy women 5'4" and shorter lose weight, includes easy-to-follow rules for dieters of all heights.
By Joanne Chen Published
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Forced to Be Fat
In Mauritania, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day—more than four times that of a male bodybuilder—to prepare them for marriage.
By Abigail Haworth Published
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Your Life in Hormones
Features What the hell is going on with your hormones—and how can you harness them for happiness, health, fertility, brainpower, and energy?
By Gabrielle Lichterman Published
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Get Jessica Alba's $200/Session Workout for $15
Celebrity trainer Ramona Braganza shares the simple, 40-minute at-home workout that got Alba and Halle Berry into fab post-baby shape.
By Jihan Thompson Published
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Ooh, ooh that smell…Can't you smell that smell?
Little known fact: when U.S. soldiers were shipped off to Vietnam in the 1960's, the Vietcong could actually smell them thanks to their American diets. New arrivals were often put on new diets based on local cuisine simply to rid their bodies o...
By Melanie Valerio Published
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Exact Change Please.
How much change can we handle? Historically most people do not like change-except in their pocket. Insert obvious David Bowie song lyric reference.
By Melanie Valerio Published
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The Breast Cancer Club
When a woman receives that dreaded diagnosis, what happens if she doesn't fit with the pink-ribbon gang? Cris Beam tells it like it is.
By Cris Beam Published
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They Told me I was Pregnant, But it was Ovarian Cancer
You're bloated. You need to pee all the time. It could be pregnancy—or it could be ovarian cancer, the so-called silent killer. But new research shows you can spot this cancer early. These two survivors reveal how pushing for a diagnosis can save your life.
By Meryl Davids Landau Published
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Bean There, Done That
If the incline bench you avoid at the gym merged with the stability ball that's joined your treadmill in the black hole of unused exercise equipment, the result would be The Bean.
By Diana Vilibert Published
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Burden of Truth
I wasn't surprised to learn from a geneticist that my breasts were potential time bombs. Buy why was I, like so many other women, so reluctant to silence the ticking?
By Dominique Jackson Published