Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION
- Travel
How to stay healthy while you travel
You plan, you pack, you activate your out-of-office message-you don't want your vacation ruined with back pain, jet lag, or worse. The reality is that as much as you need to get away to relieve stress, travel can take a toll on your body. "Changing your routine ramps up levels of stress hormones, wh
- Haven
8 Ways to keep your home safe
Here's an alarming stat: According to the Home Safety Council, home accidents cause 20,000 deaths in the United States annually (by comparison, 742 are from planes and just 70 from lightning). But don't shop for a hard hat or an indoor sprinkler system just yet-there are easy ways to stay safe in ev
- Haven
10 Things to toss in your home for better health
Quick: When was the last time you replaced your mattress? Pillows? Even that jumbo bottle of shampoo? You'd be surprised how the shelf life of everyday household items can affect your health, and their expire-by dates are often sooner than you'd expect. Here's what to toss and when:
- Healthy Living
Exceptions to 5 common health rules
No one ever got sick from avoiding cigarettes or trans fats. But some of the most commonly repeated pieces of advice actually aren't meant for everyone. After all, the USDA couldn't equip its pyramid with a section just for people with celiac disease or those taking certain meds. Health recommendati
- Healthy Living
9 Things that make allergies worse
If you're a seasonal allergy sufferer (60 million of Americans are), you probably already have a few tricks to avoid triggers, like not running outside when pollen counts are sky-high or keeping the windows closed and blasting the AC. But you may not know about these less obvious factors that can ma
- Healthy Living
5 Ways to lose real weight, not water weight
To see a difference in your size and feel a difference in your clothes, you need to lose body fat-not water weight or muscle mass, which you definitely want to keep because the latter is the engine that fuels your metabolism. And with warm weather not exactly around the corner but a mile or so down
- Healthy Living
5 Mistakes that make pain worse
The biggest pain mistake I make? Trying to grin and bear it. I never met a pill-OTC or Rx-that I particularly liked. But my aches occur only now and again-whereas chronic pain, defined as lasting for at least 3 months, affects an estimated 43 million Americans. Yet experts agree that it's woefully u
- Healthy Living
10 Silent signals you're super stressed
Everyone has a stressful day, week, or even month, but if you're under chronic, long-term stress (from a demanding job or personal life in turmoil), your body is also under a daily assault of hormones that can cause a whole host of nagging health problems, says Stevan E. Hobfoll, PhD, chair of the d
- Financially Fit
10 Ways to look younger on a budget
Just because the economy is unpredictable, it doesn't mean you need to forgo any part of your beauty routine (let's face it-when you look good, you feel good, period). The trick is to make no- or low-cost moves that deliver maximum impact. From hiding dark circles to boosting hair's shine, here are
- Financially Fit
7 Really easy ways to save money at the grocery store
And none require buying anything day old or suspiciously on sale. In fact, a few simple shopping adjustments will really make a difference to your wallet. Here are my favorites:
- Financially Fit
10 Ways to feed your family for $100 a week
With planning and a little more time in the kitchen, you can stick to your budget without sacrificing taste or nutrition. Here are 10 tips that can help you feed your family for about a hundred bucks a week.
- Healthy Living
5 Signals you’re sleep deprived
When I'm tired my body always lets me know it. But the reality for most of us is that we're so used to being sleep deprived that we remain oblivious to how impaired we really are. Sleep debt isn't something you can pay off in a weekend, researchers say-it can take weeks of building up restorative sl
- Healthy Living
12 fake foods to avoid (and what to eat instead)
I'm trying to eat less processed food (better for me, better for the planet), but the journey from fresh to processed is not a simple one, nor is it always clear what, exactly, makes something highly processed (the quick answer: the more a food is sliced, diced, and added to, the more processed it i
- Healthy Living
6 Scents that make you healthier
Your nose is a hub of activity. We all have millions of smell receptors that, as soon as they detect a scent, shoot the information to the olfactory bulb-a pea-size cluster in the brain that sorts the signals and sends them to the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that governs many memori
- Heart Health
5 scary times for your heart
Our resident cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, MD, told Prevention that the first question he asks patients when they walk in his office is "How's the traffic?"
- Heart Health
3 simple tests that can predict and prevent a heart attack
Your doctor can order a host of complex tests to gauge the health of your heart, but Prevention's resident cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, MD, shared three new methods of predicting heart disease that are surprisingly simple and effective. One can be done with your eyes closed-literally. Another can
- Healthy Living
8 Craziest health rumors
True story: A good friend, someone I consider pretty savvy about health, diet, and wellness, recently e-mailed me and asked if eating celery will help you lose weight (something about it being a negative-calorie food). As far as rumors go, this one was pretty tame, but in some cases misinformation c
- Healthy Living
4 ways to lose weight like a guy
I have a friend whose husband does one thing when he wants to lose weight: He cuts back on beer (not out but just back-he drinks it on the weekends). That's it. And he's usually 5 pounds lighter within a month. It's not fair, but men are natural losers. Why? Their bigger muscle mass helps them burn
- New Year
5 small changes that take off big pounds
If your goal this New Year is to lose weight and exercise more, forget the deprivation diet and marathon workouts. New research shows that taking baby steps-not giant leaps-is the best way to get lasting results. A study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found that participants who made
- New Year
5 Habits to break in 2010
Everyone, and I mean everyone, has a bad habit (or three), and even if you're not the resolution type, making one change this year can do wonders for your health, looks and self-esteem. Here are five common not-so-great habits, and how to break 'em for good.