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How, exactly, do they make you stick around and load up on items you never meant to buy? Here are 8 ways to guarantee a healthier (and cheaper) experience every time. Skip the super-sized cart “We don’t feel like we are done shopping until we have some sort of visual cue—like a full cart,” says Benjamin. So the trick is to look at the cart like a dinner plate. “Choose the smallest cart you can,” says Diane Henderiks, RD, a personal chef and culinary nutritionist in Oakhurst, NJ....

Maximize Your Efforts To challenge your muscles the way you would during a longer workout, perform these moves in supersets: one exercise immediately followed by the next with no rest in between. Start with the lunge, then the squat; that’s one set. Rest for 30 to 60 seconds between sets, then repeat the pair one or two more times. Be sure to use weights that are challenging but not so heavy that you can’t maintain proper form....

Chobani Pumpkin Spice Blended Greek Yogurt A medium pumpkin spice latte can set you back around 50 g of sugar and 380 calories. (More like pumpkin spice NOT-te, am I right?) Choose this yogurt instead: It’s just as creamy as your PSL but clocks in at 130 calories and 12 g of sugar—one of the lowest sugar counts we’ve ever seen for a flavored yogurt. chobani.com Barbara’s Pumpkin Puffins Puffins are already one of our favorite low-sugar cereals....

Wear the right socks. Instead of cotton socks that hold sweat and often bunch up, you want socks made from synthetic blends that wick away moisture, such as CoolMax or Wonderspun. There are even socks with Teflon that are designed to prevent blisters. Grease up. Apply a lubricant such as Bodyglide or BlisterShield powder to blister-prone areas before walking. Petroleum jelly is not a good choice because it tends to melt and thin out....

The research: A team from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark examined the muscles of eight healthy men before and after a 72-hour fast. After skipping meals for three days, the men experienced a 50% reduction in mTOR activity, a key regulator of muscle cell growth. Put simply, when mTOR drops, muscle wasting speeds up. That may sounds like a bad thing, but, oddly, there’s evidence from rodent studies that blocking mTOR activity triggers “cell survival responses” that can actually extend life, says study coauthor Mikkel H....

Several weeks after a hysterectomy last spring, Bo Roth was suffering from exhaustion and pain that kept her on the couch much of the day. The 58-year-old Seattle speech coach didn’t want to take opioid pain-killers, but Tylenol wasn’t helping enough. Roth was intrigued when women in her online chat group enthused about a cannabis-derived oil called cannabidiol (CBD) that they said relieved pain without making them high. So Roth, who hadn’t smoked weed since college but lived in a state where cannabis was legal, walked into a dispensary and bought a CBD tincture....

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That’s what microbiologist Christina Agapakis, PhD, discovered when she started making cheese from human body bacteria back in 2010, as part of an art-meets-science exhibition called Selfmade. Inspired by the complex interdependence between humans and bacteria, Agapakis took samples from the feet, armpits, and belly buttons of volunteers—even food writer Michael Pollan donated a swab of his microorganisms—and used them to craft a variety of pungent cheeses. Earlier this year, another intrepid scientist took the torch of human-made dairy: Cecilia Westbrook, a MD/PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, figured out how to use her own vaginal bacteria to make yogurt, which she ate with blueberries, according to Vice....

Alternate Nostril Breathing Calm yourself—any week of the month—with this simple brain-balancing breathing exercise. Sit in a comfortable cross-legged seated position. 2. Close off your right nostril with your thumb and inhale slowly and evenly through your left nostril. 3. Close off the left one using your index or any other finger, pause a moment, then open your right nostril by lifting your thumb, and exhale—slowly and fully—through that side....

The issue: Keratosis pilaris Rough, bumpy skin on the backs of your upper arms, butt, and thighs is the hallmark of this very common—and completely harmless—condition. Although keratosis pilaris (KP) looks like tiny pimples, it’s actually a buildup of dead cells around individual hair follicles, says Mary Lupo, MD, a clinical professor of dermatology at Tulane University School of Medicine. A chronic problem that can be treated but not cured, KP frequently—and inexplicably—improves during the summer and sometimes even gets better with age....

Turn your exercise greenSkip your usual workout and take a simple stroll in the woods. A study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that exercising in nature for as little as five minutes benefits mental and physical health. And according to Tom Holland, MS, CSCS, author of Beat the Gym, so-called “green exercise” can even burn more calories than indoor workouts. For example, hiking at 4 mph burns 358 calories per hour versus 291 for the same time and pace on a treadmill....