Everything you should know about ‘Weight Watchers for Millennials’ — Ask any dietitian or weight loss professional what they think about fill-in-the-blank diet and they’ll usually say fad dieting is a waste of time, and healthy eating works. Weight loss and nutrition are about the long haul. The best results come from plans that aren’t plans at all, but rather…

Feeling your feelings is the new modern-day catharsis — Therapy can take on many different forms these days. There’s texting therapy. There’s teletherapy. There are even therapy sessions that allow you to chat with a therapist while you jog. In the 1960s and ’70s, there was screaming. Introduced by California psychotherapist Arthur Janov (and practiced by John Lennon and…

Stop trying so hard to nap. Resting could have similar benefits. — When professional sports organizations are looking to build a nap room for players, one of the first things that sleep specialist W. Christopher Winter, M.D., tells them is: Don’t call it that. “We try to get teams to call these rooms something that doesn’t have ‘sleep’ or ‘nap’ in the…

Get to know these five high-performance food pairings — Rice and beans, guacamole and salsa, olive oil and tomatoes: Traditional food pairings that date back thousands of years may seem like simple culinary staples, but to food researchers, they’re prime examples of food combinations that promote maximum nutrition. “Modern science shows us some amazing things with food pairings,” says…

Eating a handful of nuts on a regular basis is good for you, but where are the snack’s health benefits coming from? — If you regularly snack on nuts, you can trace your healthy habit back to a nutrition lab in Southern California. The year was 1990, and Joan Sabaté, MD, DrPH, executive director of the Center for Nutrition at the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University, was studying the potential…