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Food Quiz

Answer this one: Which ethnic food offers healthful, low-fat choices?

Target Heart Rate Calculator

Your target heart rate is the range at which sustained physical activity - running, cycling, swimming laps, or any other aerobic exercise - is considered safe and effective.

Diet and Exercise
Eating Well
Nutrition's Role in Disease Prevention

Evidence is mounting that a healthy diet can help protect you from some diseases. What you eat—or don't eat—may help prevent heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and type 2 diabetes.

How to Mix Carbs, Fats, Proteins in Your Diet

Your diet needs Fats for energy, Proteins for body strength and Carbs for making your organs function efficiently. Strive for this balance.

Eating the Right Foods for All-Day Energy

If your blood glucose drops too low—which can happen if you go too long without eating—you're going to feel lightheaded and lethargic.

Simple Ways to Improve Your Diet

Eating healthy can reduce your risk of illness and lengthen your life. Eating a balanced, low-fat, low-cholesterol diet reduces your risk of heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, stroke and other diseases. Follow these tips to help improve your diet.

Eat to Beat Disease

If you have a family history of a chronic condition, you can gain protective benefits by personalizing your diet to prevent specific diseases.

Diet Traps to Avoid

Making and following a weight-loss plan that includes balanced meals and exercise can help you attain a healthy weight.

Take a Bite Out of Portion Distortion

Feeling stuffed? Maybe it's time to say no to super-sizing and yes to minimizing. In a super-sized world, we don't know how much we should eat when too much is put in front of us.

When Your Diet 'Disconnects'

Even with some basic knowledge about how to accomplish weight-loss goals, 66 percent of us are still overweight.

Being Active
Exercise Goals for Healthy Living

You know it's important to stay active but still find yourself falling back on old habits. What can you do? Planning for exercise isn't hard if you make it a priority.

How Women Can Avoid Middle-Age Weight Gain

Whether you’ve already gained a few extra pounds or have yet to reach perimenopause, here are strategies to help you maintain a healthy weight in midlife and beyond.

Female Athlete Triad: An Unhealthy Condition

The triad is made up of these factors: disordered eating, disrupted menstrual cycles (missing three or more periods in a row) and osteoporosis (low bone mass).

Female Teen Athletes: At Risk for Injury?

Teen girls who are athletes face unique obstacles when it comes to their bodies and how well they perform.

Yoga for Your Mind and Body

Yoga can help you beat stress, feel more in control of your life, and stay healthier.

Making Decisions About Fitness

First decide how you can make exercise a priority. One idea: Put your workout on the calendar just like any other appointment.

Give Your Health a Lift

Weight lifting is one of the fastest-growing U.S. fitness activities. And the American Heart Association recently threw its weight behind weight lifting, too.

Focus on Design, Fit When Choosing Shoes

If the shoe fits, wear it is not just a cliché. It could be one of the most valuable health tips you hear all year.

Who's the Coach? You Are!

If you don’t have the time or money to meet with a trainer, just hire yourself to get the job done.