Welcome to the first Reader Mailbag! I’m taking a page from the playbook of one of my favorite sportswriters, Bill Simmons, and answering a boatload of your q...

Most people would like to eat healthy on a consistent basis. And even if you already eat healthy most of the time, it’s likely that you could do...

Jack LaLanne was a pioneer in the world of fitness. The gyms that you see all over town? He opened one of the nation’s first fitness gyms in 1936. The mac...

I want to live a healthy life in the most effortless way possible. I want to get my diet and nutrition right because it allows me to do the more important thing...

Most of us know that junk food is unhealthy. We know that poor nutrition is related to heart problems, high blood pressure, and a host of other health ailments....

I’m fascinated by the link between the way we live our daily lives and the health and happiness we enjoy. There are choices that you make every day, some ...

Your environment has an incredible ability to shape your behavior. I have written previously about choice architecture and environment design, bo...

On February 13, 1972, Michel Siffre climbed into a cave in southwest Texas. It would be six months before he saw daylight again. Siffre was a French scientist a...

Most people aren’t getting enough sleep, plain and simple. But—and this is the important thing to realize—we don’t recognize that we are sleep d...

Long before I was publishing articles for the world to read, I wrote in a private document. I did this for more than a year. There were a variety of reasons and...