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Nina Davuluri became the first Indian American Miss America in 2013 — and met the moment's racist backlash with grace: 'I have to rise above that.'

September 16, 2013 · 2 min read

Booties, not full boots, are fall's must-have shoe: how to wear ankle booties casually and formally, from flats to heeled styles.

September 11, 2013 · 1 min read

Facebook made us put our 'game face' on all the time — and a 2013 University of Michigan study found the more we used it, the worse we felt.

September 8, 2013 · 2 min read

Retro Reel on Spielberg's Munich (2005): a chilling espionage thriller that becomes a genre-defying meditation on the moral cost of revenge.

September 5, 2013 · 5 min read

An 8-year-old in Slaughter, Louisiana shot his 90-year-old grandmother after playing Grand Theft Auto IV. Later, investigators learned he thought the gun

August 26, 2013 · 1 min read

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.

August 23, 2013 · 2 min read

A 2013 Johns Hopkins study found that malt liquor brands like Steel Reserve and Colt 45 were linked to the most alcohol-related ER visits.

August 22, 2013 · 2 min read

Michelle Obama's 'Songs for a Healthier America' — a 19-track hip-hop album with Jordin Sparks, Ashanti, DMC and more — to fight childhood obesity.

August 13, 2013 · 1 min read

From clothing sizes to wages to workplace respect, plus-size women face bias everywhere — and exercise isn't the whole answer.

August 12, 2013 · 1 min read

Tired of saying 'hurry up' instead of 'I love you'? A mom's vow to slow down and live in the present with her kids — inspired by Rachel Macy Stafford.

August 7, 2013 · 2 min read

Now that the name of the movie is out of the bag, let me start Part 2 with the results of the guessing game from Part 1. Many of you made interesting…

July 18, 2013 · 6 min read

Spanking and shouting don't teach kids lessons — they teach kids that hitting is okay. Here's what to do instead when your child misbehaves.

July 1, 2013 · 2 min read

An introduction to Pranic Healing: a no-touch practice built on prana — life force — flowing through the body, worked with to support health.

July 1, 2013 · 2 min read

Every minute of exercise may buy you seven minutes of life. How little exercise is enough, and how do you turn it into a habit that actually sticks?

June 26, 2013 · 2 min read

No time to exercise? A 15-minute home workout that mixes cardio and strength can build real fitness. Here's how the 5-4-3-2-1 plan works and why diet still

June 20, 2013 · 2 min read

Process praise beats person praise: why praising a child's effort — not their 'greatness' — builds resilience, and why praise for everything backfires.

June 18, 2013 · 2 min read

Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds on Subway sandwiches and became a famous pitchman — then in 2015 he was convicted of child sex crimes and sentenced to over 15

June 11, 2013 · 1 min read

The 'tongue patch' diet sews a mesh patch onto the tongue to make eating painful. Doctors called it dangerous — and it was never FDA approved.

June 6, 2013 · 1 min read

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan skipped meeting Al Pacino to look after Aaradhya — and the media made it national news. An essay on judging women's choices.

June 6, 2013 · 2 min read

From an Indian Army study on leave and affairs to Bangalore's IT crowd: an op-ed asking whether monogamy is believed but not practiced.

June 3, 2013 · 1 min read