Vegetables aren’t usually the most expensive ingredient on your shopping list. Still, there are ways to save money and make the most of your nutritious choices: Buy seasonal produce when possible. Buy heavy nutritious vegetables. If it’s edible, eat it! Don’t peel vegetables. Buy in season Most fruits and vegetables are a lot cheaper when they’re in...

Kids spend so much time on their feet, walking, running and playing. An active child takes an average of 20,000 steps per day! Parents often ask me what shoes are best for their kids. So, here are my tips: Choose footwear that is completely flat and widest at the ends of the toes (not just at the ball) Choose footwear that is flexible and lightweight. Avoid built-in...

Magnus Mumby is a dynamic consulting chef currently based in Cornwall, England, where he’s best known for creating healthy and wholesome menus. In his new series for WellWire, Magnus will share his favorite healthy, rustic techniques for wholesome food on a budget. Most people think that to eat good wholesome, healthy or gourmet food, that they’ll have...

Cancer. ITP. Burst appendix. Hit and run. That was 1989, not my greatest year. A life-threatening illness, a rare bleeding disorder, a burst appendix and infection. Then, to add injury to injury, as I was walking across Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, I was hit by a ’57 Chevy. I was 32 and very fit, and I recovered, physically. Meanwhile I was thinking, Why me? Will I...

Welcome to our new Q&A column! Drop your tricky, random, wacky or plain confusing health and wellness questions into the Suggest-O-Matic (or leave a comment) and our team will answer them. Q I’m considering acupressure and acupuncture treatments for pain. What’s the difference between the two and why is it sometimes necessary to use the needles instead...

A lot of New Year’s resolutions involve cutting back on meat, beef specifically, because of its enormous environmental impact. But what about cheese? The mostly sheep, goat, and cow milk-based product is pretty resource intensive. Nina Shen Rastogi explains how a 1.5-ounce serving of cheese might be expected to produce about 16 ounces of carbon dioxide equivalent....

Ever wondered who was behind the Bikram Yoga craze? Bikram Choudhury was spotted at the age of four by the yoga master Bishnu Ghosh, won the All-India Yoga Championship for three consecutive years as a teenager, and headed to Hollywood in 1971 at the insistence of Shirley MacLaine, who had taken classes with him in India. Today, at 63 years old, with over 4000 hot yoga...

Sometimes we’re inspired by mother nature–not the pretty sunsets but the real feats of natural engineering. The sandcastle worm carefully builds its portable home by sticking individual grains of sand and debris together with homemade glue that might find a place in our surgical rooms to mend broken bones. The whelk snail makes a goop to protect its eggs that...

Are you a procrastinator of pleasure? Then here’s a New Year’s resolution for you: have fun right now. Not just because airlines and other marketers save billions of dollars annually from gift certificates that expire unredeemed but because once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process and the longer you wait to open that...

England’s top scientists make a few interesting predictions for the next decade including: “diesel-excreting bacteria, the sequencing of entire genomes for $1,000, massive banks of frozen human eggs, space tourism, the identification of dark matter, widespread sterilization of young adults, telepathy, supercomputer models of our brains, the discovery of...