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    Alena Hall

    Alena Hall

    Associate Third Metric Editor, The Huffington Post

  • How Online Food Delivery Services Make It Easier For You To Eat Healthy

    You can't exactly grab a box of chocolate chip cookies on a whim online, like you do at the grocery store.

  • 7 Jump Rope Moves Even A Klutz Can Do

    But seriously, you've got this.

  • How One Photographer Found Peace And Freedom On The Road

    A young Frenchman's journey through America to find himself

  • This New Fitness Trend On The Streets Of Palestine Defies Gravity

    Kinda puts your yoga headstand in perspective, doesn't it?

  • Kroger Recalls Seasonings Due To Potential Salmonella Contamination

    Four Kroger brand seasonings are included in the nationwide recall.

  • How To Keep Excuses From Hindering Your Success

    These women don't let their "buts" hold them back.

  • 23 Signs You Have A Healthy Relationship With Your Smartphone

    When it comes to how people treat their smartphones these days, there's a dramatic difference between treating the device like a tool that makes life easier and viewing it as a not-so-figurative fifth appendage. We are right, as a culture, to be worried about this obsessive behavior. But just because some people engage in inappropriate texting, there is still a large population of smartphone users with a surprisingly balanced relationship to their devices -- and they deserve a little credit.

  • 25 Photos That Reveal Just How Amazing The Human Body Can Be

    Creative community EyeEm recently partnered with The Huffington Post in asking photographers around the world to share their best visual evidence proving that the human body is, indeed, a powerful athletic force. Check out the 25 photographs below that the EyeEm team and the HuffPost staff selected to represent the beauty that is the human body. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • Here Are The Top 10 Fittest Cities In America

    According to the latest American Fitness Index, Washington, D.C. is the most fit city in the country, retaining its title for a second year in a row. Researchers from the American College of Sports Medicine took at look at obesity, smoking and diabetes rates, plus community and environmental factors that play a substantial role in providing access to better health. The survey answers the question, "I want to be physically active and healthy -- does my environment or the community in which I live support my desire to be healthy?" according to Walter R. Thompson, an AFI advisory board member.

  • How Meaningful Conversations Can Bring About Real Political Change

    Joan Blades, Debilyn Molineaux and Ralph Benko join HuffPost Live to explain how meaningful conversations can bring about real political change.

  • The New Movement To Welcome LGBT Catholics To The Church

    The gay community's fight for equality is ongoing, especially within religious sects. "OwningOurFaith," a short documentary profiling LGBT Catholics, seeks to address that by "encouraging a dialogue" between gay Catholics and the church -- in particular, Pope Francis, who invited the filmmakers to make the project and will be receiving a copy of it in the days to come. "When you get an invitation from the head of the church to basically say 'Please tell us what's on your mind,' that I believe is the opening we all need to take," Larry Holodak, a co-producer of the film, told HuffPost Live on Tuesday.

  • 15 Animals That Make Us Feel Better About Getting Older

    There comes a time in everyone's life when the comfort of a couch trumps a wild night, naps replace happy hours, and the highlight of a weekend is binge-watching a new show on Netflix. Whether you're hitting your quarter life crisis or reaching an age you refuse to admit, we all have to grow up (a little bit) at some point -- and there's nothing wrong with that.

  • How The Mindfulness Movement Is Helping Orphaned Girls In Pakistan

    Saghir Aslam, chairman of Saba Homes, a home for orphaned girls in Pakistan, discussed Pakistan's mindfulness movement with HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani. After Pakistan's devastating earthquake of 2005, Aslam joined in the relief effort for several months. Why are these people treated like orphans?" Aslam told HuffPost Live.