Lifestyle

Skip the fad diets: the fundamentals of everyday nutrition — whole foods, hydration, protein, sleep — work for life and for training alike.

April 5, 2012 · 2 min read

Spanish researchers found that people who ate the most fast food were 51% more likely to develop depression — bad for the waistline, and the blues too.

April 2, 2012 · 2 min read

The CDC put autism at 1 in 88 children in 2012. Behind the numbers — and the deficits they describe — are minds with their own distinct strengths.

April 1, 2012 · 2 min read

Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed Jesus with dark skin, dark eyes, and short curly hair — nothing like the fair-skinned figure in Western art.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

At a New York panel on young brains and video games, experts weighed the iPad's place in childhood: a powerful shelf of toys — or an electronic babysitter?

March 30, 2012 · 3 min read

NBC's The Biggest Loser split its season-13 makeover week across two episodes — April 3 and April 10 — ending with a White House workout alongside Michelle

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

Kindness isn't just a trait kids are born with — research suggests it's a teachable skill, and age three is exactly the right time to start.

March 27, 2012 · 1 min read

As I sat down to face my mom, I sensed she was unhappy about something. “Joe, I am disappointed in you.Your writing scores are terribly low.You need to work…

March 25, 2012 · 7 min read

Lululemon's retail playbook included a deliberate tactic: employees stationed near fitting rooms to eavesdrop on shoppers — customer research without the

March 25, 2012 · 2 min read

Chatto and Windus published Khushwant Singh’s novel “Train to Pakistan” in 1956. It’s a 181-page novel and is available in both paperback and hardback. It’s…

March 22, 2012 · 3 min read

Dr. Ken Murray’s viral 2011 essay observed that doctors facing death often choose comfort care over aggressive treatment.

March 14, 2012 · 1 min read

Photos of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife from a Zimbabwe hunt ignited a 2012 backlash — and a trophy-hunting debate that

March 14, 2012 · 1 min read

One DMV clerk, one refused donor box, and the real arithmetic of giving: a single donor’s organs reach several people on the waiting list.

March 14, 2012 · 1 min read

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

March 13, 2012 · 1 min read

What celebrity fitness really involves: hours in the gym, personal trainers, yoga, and strict diets. The honest truth behind the perfect bodies on screen.

March 10, 2012 · 1 min read

Friday cooking column Vol 5: a slow rajma in tomato-onion gravy, jeera rice, and cucumber raita — the weeknight reward meal.

March 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Two body-positivity advocates — Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle — ditched makeup, blow-drys, and shaving for 60 days. What the experiment revealed about

March 8, 2012 · 1 min read