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Now, these subtly sweet leaves (think: sugar snap peas) have been given new life and will do the same for your stir-frys, smoothies, and even sandwiches—in fact, we think they make the perfect sturdy, low-cal substitute for a flour tortilla. Simply load them up with your favorite fillers, roll, and eat; or fold in half and consume taco-style. The perks: BroccoLeaf is organic, high in the immune-boosting antioxidant vitamins A and C, and a great source of bone-building minerals compared to other leafy greens—just two leaves contain 30% of your daily value of calcium (2x as much as kale) along with a hefty dose of vitamin K, which is what allows your body to actually utilize this calcium....

Setting up a sort of dietary cage match, researchers fed mice a series of diets each containing 40% fat. The fat in the first diet was primarily saturated and came from coconut oil, while the fat in the second diet was primarily unsaturated and came mostly from soybean oil. The researchers also fed mice two altered versions of the high-fat diets that also contained fructose. (Transform your health with 365 days of slimming secrets, wellness tips, and motivation—get your 2018 Prevention calendar and health planner today!...

The video “This 4-Year-Old Vegetarian’s Love for Animals Will Melt Your Heart” originally ran on RodalesOrganicLife.com.

Get started by doing 20 repetitions of the exercise below every day for a month. (Because the number of reps is low and doable for all fitness levels, no rest day is needed.) From start to finish, this shouldn’t take longer than about three minutes, so it’s a small time commitment for a big payoff—in 30 days, your triceps should be visibly firmer, and you’ll feel more comfortable in a tank top than ever....

Doctors have discovered many reasons for hair loss or thinning hair, including thyroid disease and iron deficiency. There are also different types of female hair loss ranging from subtle female pattern baldness to alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes balding in patches. Still, even if you know exactly why your hair is thinning, it is difficult to stop it and figure out how to get thick hair naturally. (Discover the ONE simple, natural solution that can help you reverse chronic inflammation and heal more than 45 diseases....

A group of 80 otherwise healthy women with mild female pattern hair loss (picture thinning in a horseshoe-like shape, starting at the crown) took fish oil, blackcurrant seed oil, vitamin E, vitamin C, and lycopene supplements every day for 6 months. The result: hair density increased for 62% of the women, hair became measurably thicker in diameter, and 90% of the women reported a decrease in overall hair loss. (A control group didn’t supplement at all—and didn’t see the same results....

Enter the Paper Diet. This new campaign launched by Manilla.com (a site that helps you organize all your paperless bill payments in one secure place) encourages people to cut back on paper use, with the goal of losing a million pounds of paper clutter by Earth Day. Besides saving 13,000 trees for every 65,000 people that take the Paper Diet pledge, Manilla estimates that half a million hours will be saved that would otherwise be spent managing paper....

See 50 Ways to Flatten Your Belly this year. [sidebar]Lunge with Side Chop A.Grasp one dumbbell with both hands. Stand with your feet under your hips. Extend your arms above your right shoulder, holding the dumbbell sideways, as shown. B.Step back with your right foot, bend both knees at right angles, and bring your arms forward and down over your left knee, as if you were chopping wood. Step back to the starting position as you raise your arms....

[sidebar] As a result, Naked Juice’s parent company PepsiCo will be paying a $9 million settlement, scuttle “all-natural” claims from its labels, and tap an outside consultant to confirm that ingredients don’t exceed non-GMO thresholds. However, don’t expect them to be pulling GMO-free claims from the sweet drinks’ labels. “Naked juice and smoothies will continue to be labeled ‘non-GMO,’ and until there is more detailed regulatory guidance around the word ‘natural,’ we’ve chosen not to use ‘all natural’ on our packaging,” says Naked Juice spokesperson Mike Torres....

But you can’t remember for the life of you if your dentist appointment is this Thursday or next. And also, what was the name of your new next door neighbor? And that thing you weren’t supposed to forget from last week’s staff meeting… When it comes to memories, what sticks and what doesn’t can seem like a round of neurological Russian roulette. But nothing could be further from the truth....

While wine is never going to take the place of your daily green juice as a health tonic, it turns out there are better, cleaner bottles to sip and share with your holiday party hosts. And it’s only getting easier to find them. “There’s definitely been an explosion of interest in natural, organic, and biodynamic wines, both from consumers and from wine bars, restaurants, and producers,” says Adam Morganstern, editor of Organic Wine Journal....

Okay, so that’s not surprising. But maybe this is: When it comes to some of the most commonly diagnosed health conditions in the U.S.—heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer—Wikipedia’s entries contain many errors, concludes a new study in the The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. Probably more shocking: “Most physicians use Wikipedia from time to time,” says lead study author Robert Hasty, DO, of Campbell University in North Carolina. “Physicians are taught not to use the site, but they still do....

Follow these tips to switch off your worry response. Worry with purpose Chances are, your problem isn’t that you have too many worries but that you have too few strategies for dealing with them, says psychiatrist Edward Hallowell, MD. Sit down with a sheet of paper divided into three columns, he advises, and list all of your worries in the first column. In the second, write down the worst thing that can happen if what you’re worried about comes true....

When the doctor told me that my EKG glitch was “normal for someone my size” during my bariatric surgery consultation, I knew I’d made the right decision to lose weight. At 41, I was 5'6’’ and 272 pounds—obese category III. I had shortness of breath and heart palpitations all the time, even when I was sitting on the couch. Two of my grandparents died in their early 60s, and I realized I was living on borrowed time....

A marriage doesn’t usually go from “’til death do us part” to “drop dead, we’re getting divorced” with nary a red flag in between. But would you recognize the flags if you saw them? Here, 11 early warning signs divorced people say they should have acted on—but didn’t. He didn’t care about my feelings. Kristin Smith*, of Great Falls, Virginia, says that her soon-to-be ex-husband’s lack of interest in her life is what initially stood out....

The key, as I’m sure you probably know: Getting ourselves to do it anyway. Research shows that regular exercise helps to reduce the chronic inflammation associated with arthritis and can even increase your pain tolerance. Exercise also strengthens the muscles around the joint and increases blood flow to the joint, two things that can minimize discomfort, says Nathan Wei, MD, a rheumatologist in Frederick, MD. It also increases the production of endorphins, which can further reduce pain (not to mention put you in a better frame of mind to handle it)....