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Enhance your fare’s flavors with these expert-picked pairings: Pinot noir with sustainable fish: Team your pinot with an ocean-friendly seafood choice like grilled wild Alaskan salmon or farmed Arctic char. Not only sustainable, these fish picks are also lower in contaminants than other ocean grilling selections, like imported shrimp and swordfish. Choose a lightly chilled Reserve Pinot Noir from Cooper Mountain in Oregon ($22), suggests Maggie Hoffman, drinks editor at Serious Eats....

Your Mood: You’ve hit a wall so hard you might never get up Your Solution: Peppermint essential oil Craving caffeine at 11 am? Research from Wheeling Jesuit University suggests that sniffing peppermint essential oil should be your new flagging-energy fix. Sniffing the stimulating essential oil gave participants an edge over peppermint-free folks in terms of both creative thinking and problem solving skills on a standardized test. “Peppermint also helps you retain information,” adds Jade Shutes, AT, a certified aromatherapist and director of education at the East West School for Herbal and Aromatic Studies in Raleigh, North Carolina....

staff celebrated the National Public Health Week by holding a Meatless Monday potluck lunch in our office and . We certainly ate well that day, with offerings ranging from produce-packed salads to artisan bread, dips, and enticing noodle dishes. My contribution was an old standby for events like this, a quinoa salad studded with greens, nuts and fruit. I tend to mix up the exact combination of ingredients each time I make it depending on what I have on hand, and this time went with shredded collard greens, diced apricots and toasted walnuts....

To calm down on a day when a bouquet isn’t on the way, spritz perfume with rose essential oil, which other research shows may have a similar calming effect. Try sweet Jurlique Essence of Rose Roll-On Fragrance Oil ($22, jurlique.com) or woodsy EO Products Amma’s Rose Perfumed Oil ($35, eoproducts.com). Bonus: rose essential oil has been used to ease stress, grief, and sadness. MORE: 5 Ways To Fight Wrinkles…With Roses?...

If you’ve ever wished you could feel as limber and energetic as you did in your 20s (um, yes please), consider amping up your workout. Older adults who run for 30 minutes, three times a week expend about the same amount of energy when they’re just walking around as a typical 20-year-old, finds a new PLoS One study. “Being more energy efficient makes things easier, which means you won’t get tired as easily,” says study coauthor Rodger Kram, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Integrative Physiology Department....

The amount of fat in these foods used in the study was equivalent to a 150-pound person eating a double cheeseburger, a large order of fries, and drinking a large milkshake, totaling about 68 grams of fat. The saturated fat hampered the ability of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) to do its job of protecting the inner lining of the arteries from inflammatory agents that cause heart disease and promote vessel-clogging plaque....

In search of inspiration, I turned to the source of all my recent life decisions: Pinterest. I scrolled past the myriad “ways to be a thrifty country bride” pins and found a link to a 30-day Paleo challenge. I’d heard that Paleo meant eating like a T-Rex or something, but that was the extent of my knowledge. The blog included recipes and exercise videos, though, and seemed fairly easy to follow....

Admit it: When faced with a steaming plate of Southern food, it’s hard not to melt like the butter dripping down those fluffy biscuits. The chicken and waffles! Those grits and gravy! How can a girl say no? Alas, that savory Southern fare is accompanied by some serious downsides. According to recent research from the University of Alabama Birmingham, eating Southern favorites on a regular basis increases your risk of stroke....

In the study, 11 men and women in their 20s rode for 3 minutes in each of 3 positions—seated, a standing climb in which your butt is out of the seat and you lean forward, and running, when you’re standing straight up. They tried each of the positions at 4 different intensities while the researchers measured the demands on riders’ leg muscles and oxygen consumption—called VO2—an important indicator of cardiovascular fitness and endurance....

“If you’re a migraineur, it’s far better to prevent the headaches than to take drugs after the fact,” says Jason B. Rosenberg, MD, a headache medicine specialist and director of Johns Hopkins Headache Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Rosenberg and other specialists recommend lifestyle changes, supplements, medications, and some therapies to stop migraines before they even start. While they won’t get rid of every headache, they should make them less frequent....

Say what? Strange as it might sound, pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen are associated with an increased risk of hearing loss in women, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Advanced Epidemiology. Researchers followed over 60,000 women for fourteen years and tracked the frequency of their pain reliever use along with self-reported hearing loss. More from Prevention: 3 Natural Solutions For Back Pain The results were dramatic: Nearly a quarter of women who took ibuprofen six or more days a week reported decreases in hearing....

It couldn’t really be simpler: For one month, try to produce lesstrash. And the group’s not talking about anything drastic like giving up toilet paper; instead, it’s about thinking twice about those individual bags of popcorn, or reconsidering buying that bottle of water. “When it comes to producing less trash, everybody has the best of intentions,” says Sara Thomas, Ocean Conservancy senior manager of digital marketing. “So we don’t want to make people feel guilty but excited....

[sidebar]Turning on the sprinkler and letting the kids run free is great exercise—for them. But parents can get in on the action, too, “by jam-packing their exercise with game-oriented, kid-friendly moves,” says Sena, who designed this half-hour circuit routine using balls, jump ropes, and grass. The exercises alternate between combo strength moves and high-intensity, bone-building cardio. “You’ll get exercise, and you’ll be leading by example,” says Sena. Workout basics After warming up, perform each of the main moves for 3 minutes with a 30-second rest between exercises....

It’s best, of course, to avoid sports with risks of injury or where a ball or other equipment could hit you in the stomach, Labonté-LeMoyne warns. Other than that, she recommends continuing activities you did before pregnancy. Water sports, like swimming or water aerobics, have an added advantage of increased blood return, which can help if you’re at risk for hypertension or have a tendency to have swollen legs and ankles....

Hint: it’s not at-home bleaching. A new study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association found that home bleaching (the kind your dentist gives you) was associated with demineralization of your enamel, which could mean erosion for the surface of your teeth down the road. “Continuous mineral loss may result in caries and severe deterioration of tooth structures [which leads to cavities],” says Reina Tanaka, PhD, assistant professor at the Showa University School of Dentistry in Japan, and author of the study....

These essential fibers, however, are the first to go as you get older (even if you’re active) because most workouts don’t target them. If you don’t use them, you lose them. Fortunately, there’s an easy antidote: speed. Research from salisbury University in Maryland found that lifting weights faster recruits more muscle and increases calorie burn by about 32%. That’s 72 extra calories per workout—the amount you’d burn walking a mile!...

The research: Wake Forest University researchers analyzed data collected from 1993 to 2010 by the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a database that contains all diagnoses and treatments, and found St. John’s Wort was used in potentially harmful combinations 28% of the time. Some of these possible drug interactions could contribute to serotonin syndrome (a condition that causes high levels of serotonin to accumulate in your body, which could be fatal), heart disease, and unintended pregnancy....