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Many of the women in my Pilates and yoga classes ask how they can get a trim and toned middle. Aside…

The first episode of the newest spin on The Bachelor, More to Love, airs tonight on Fox at 9 P.M. EDT. As suckers for a good dating show (blame our college roommate), we're stoked for a new season of love-finding. Initially scheduled to be called The Fatchelor (good call, Fox, on not calling it that), More to Love is all about twenty plus-size women, and one 26-year-old, 330-pound real estate investor (Luke) sticking it to the skinnies and getting to know each other not for how they look but for who they are. While there's more crying (and talk about steak) than the average show, it's refreshing to see them dig deeper. (Still, there's sure to be debates, considering the country's rising obesity levels, about whether the show celebrates something unhealthy.) Tune in and let us know what you think.

“When you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition…

...And how to prevent them. The most contagious travel illness news of late was, of course, all about the swine flu. But good old Montezuma’s Revenge—and in no way does that refer only to the Mexican strain of travel-induced diarrhea—is by far…

The health choices you make now will dictate your health in the future; start being healthy today and you'll feel the positive effects for years to come.

1. GET A LIFE. People who feel a sense of purpose in life and a responsibility beyond taking care of themselves -

I am in one of those periods of time when there is a lot going on in every part of my life. Whether it is a long to-do list of responsibilities or emotional issues tapping their foot impatiently for me to address, my body and my brain are exhausted.

That's not an easy thing to admit.

The first episode of the newest spin on The Bachelor, More to Love, airs tonight on Fox at 9 P.M. EDT. As suckers for a good dating show (blame our college roommate), we're stoked for a new season of love-finding. Initially scheduled to be called The Fatchelor (good call, Fox, on not calling it that), More to Love is all about twenty plus-size women, and one 26-year-old, 330-pound real estate investor (Luke) sticking it to the skinnies and getting to know each other not for how they look but for who they are. While there's more crying (and talk about steak) than the average show, it's refreshing to see them dig deeper. (Still, there's sure to be debates, considering the country's rising obesity levels, about whether the show celebrates something unhealthy.) Tune in and let us know what you think.

By Jane Powell - www.MeditationsForWomen.com “Welcome change.” There is nothing more certain in our lives than change. Yet many of us fear change and make elaborate plans to avoid it. We fear the new and find comfort in the…

Ever since I was a child, I loved vegetables.  My mother used to call me a rabbit, and I would call her lucky.  Granted, I was a bit picky in that I only liked my veggies raw, but still, what mother wouldn't be lucky to have her kid love vegetables?

As I've gotten older,…

Your metabolism doesn’t tragically sink the day…