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Can’t get out of your head?  Here’s how to breathe, relax and feel better almost instantly. Have you ever been stuck in your head playing out the worst-case scenario? Even though I’ve taught yoga and meditation for 20 years, I still have to actively manage my mischievous mind. Not long ago, I had a mammogram.…

When does something healthy become unhealthy? When you do it too much, to the exclusion of other choices. Like most of us, you’ve probably been hit over the head for the past few years with the “power of habits”: the idea that locking in some simple, healthy everyday behaviors will set you on a course…

Fall is synonymous with the start of flu season, and experts are beginning to prepare for what could be another bad year. Tracking influenza activity in the Southern Hemisphere usually “allows some degree of predictability” for what we can expect in the U.S., explains Gregory Poland, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Vaccine…

If you find yourself falling short of your 10,000-steps-a-day goal, don’t fret. Even if your step count is less than half of this benchmark, a new study suggests you’re still reaping some serious health benefits. Research published Aug. 9 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiologyfound walking just shy of 4,000 steps a day —…