Health-fitness
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The 10 Best Workout Mats for Every Type of Exercise
Doing yoga or HIIT in your home gym just got so much better.
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How Do We Find Joy Again?
This year was tumultuous, trying, and, frankly, terrible. Yet we humans, resilient species that we are, can—and must—let ourselves feel happiness once more.
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The 20 Best At-Home Fitness Equipment and Accessories
Alexa, play "The New Workout Plan."
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Transitioning in the Age of Zoom
Revealing changes in your gender presentation can be complicated when you haven’t seen family or coworkers in person in months.
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How I Mental Health by Christy Turlington
For the new series, How I Mental Health, learn how iconic supermodel Christy Turlington gets real about self-love, meditation, and The Great British Baking Show.
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When Your Breast Cancer Journey Takes an Unexpected Turn
After an annual mammogram in June revealed suspicious calcifications, breast cancer survivor Kai McGee underwent a partial mastectomy. Now, she's grappling with the outcome of that surgery.
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26 Fitness Gifts They'll Actually Use
Products that make working out 10x better.
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On Being a Black Woman, Mother, & Breast Cancer Survivor
Kai McGee's intersecting identities have shaped her breast cancer journey—and influence the decisions she's making now about her future.
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A Devastating Choice: Deciding Between a Lumpectomy or Mastectomy
When Kai McGee was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer six years ago, she was forced to choose between saving her breasts and risking a possible cancer occurrence in her healthy breast in the future. Now, she's grappling with the after-effects of that choice during a pandemic and a summer of racial reckoning.
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Are Contact-Tracing Apps Worth the Privacy Risk?
They’re only a tiny piece of the puzzle in helping fight the spread of COVID-19—and they’re yet to be proven effective.
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Forget Tracking Your Period—Your Period (App) Is Tracking You
Femtech apps—like ones that track your period or pregnancy—are spilling your bedside secrets.
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My Journey to Finding Self-Worth in My Self-Harm Scars
In honor of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, author Jennifer Storm shares an excerpt from her upcoming book, Awakening Blackout Girl.
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How I Mental Health by Marc Jacobs
"Happiness is an inside job."
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Nike's New Maternity Line Is Changing the Game
Nike (M) launches this fall.
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Living With Pure Obsessional OCD: What Happens When Your Thoughts Turn X-Rated
A new HBO Max show attempts to demystify and normalize the widely misunderstood anxiety disorder.
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Tear Gaslighting: Is There a Link Between Protesting and Messed Up Periods?
Law enforcement has used chemical crowd control agents across the U.S. this summer. Protestors and some experts suspect tear gas exposure is causing abrupt and painful changes to menstrual cycles.
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Centuries of Racism Have Created a Mental Health Crisis Among Black Americans
Marah Lidey, cofounder and co-CEO of wellness app Shine, shares how years of racism has significantly impacted the collective mental health of Black Americans—and how her own experiences inspired her to help others.
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Reflections on Becoming a Doctor During Two Epidemics
More than 36,000 new doctors were minted last month. They'll start their careers battling coronavirus and the racism that fuels its disproportionate outcomes.
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What If Fertility Didn't Have a Shelf Life?
Nicole Shanahan and Sergey Brin’s struggle to start a family launched a new era in scientific research. The goal: End menopause.
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How to Feel Better Now
That spin class? Swap it for a sound bath. Here are the mind- and body-easing measures to turn to when traditional anxiety easers don’t cut it.
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Samsung Just Made Working Out at Home Even Easier
The brand's Samsung Health platform is designed with at-home exercise in mind.
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My Healing Journey After Sexual Assault
To recover from an assault at the hands of a friend, I spent months experimenting with different therapies.
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What It's Like to Undergo Chemotherapy During COVID-19
Michelle Hynek, 46, was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer seven months ago. For her, isolation looks a lot different.
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Surrogacy Is Complicated—Then Add a Global Pandemic
In Ukraine, COVID-19 has left surrogates trapped and newborns abandoned.
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Death Companioning and How It’s Helping Me Get Through the Pandemic
How an online course about grief helped me ease my COVID-19-related anxieties.
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Hopeful, Proud, Tired: How Frontline Workers Feel Fighting the COVID-19 Crisis
A photographer shot and interviewed 17 New York City healthcare heroes working tirelessly to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
