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Wide 2nd Plié Bring your feet out a little wider than your hips and slightly externally rotate from your hips. Keeping your spine upright, bend your knees out to the sides. Make sure your knees are over your ankles and you’re not rolling in with the knees or feet. (Here are the best and worst exercises for your knees.) Place hands on your hips, out in front of you, or behind your head with elbows out to the sides....

(You can sculpt your arms and tighten your tummy with the energizing—and fun—routines from Prevention’s Flat Belly Barre!) The Clinique Sonic System Purifying Cleansing Brush gently sweeps away dirt, oil, and impurities using sonic vibrations. Plus, the brush provides exfoliation, which makes it easier for your anti-aging serums and creams to sink into the skin, in turn making them more effective (see ya, crow’s feet). In our testing of a variety of skin-cleansing tools, our staff tester said Clinique’s soft brush never snagged her skin, and that its tapered shape made targeting hard-to-reach oil buildup around the nose much easier....

These complaints have gone mostly unheard by the regulators who approved the product—until now. The Center for Food Safety, a consumer advocacy group based in Washington, DC, has filed a lawsuit against the FDA alleging that Quorn (plus a handful of other products) is evidence of a faulty food additive approval system here in the states. What is Quorn actually made of? Mold, to be exact. Its main ingredient is mycoprotein, made by fermenting the fungus Fusarium venenatum in a broth of glucose and minerals....

“The breast is an amazing organ,” says Susan Love, MD, a clinical professor of surgery at UCLA and founder of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. “It’s the only [organ] that you’re not born with, and it changes along with the stages of your life—puberty, pregnancy, and then involution, perimenopause, and menopause.” Here’s what’s happening to your dynamic duo during each decade of your life. In Your 20stenderness The girls are in top form now that puberty has stuffed them with fat fibrous tissue....

Staying cold- and flu-free this season comes down to a few simple tactics: First, get a flu shot. Second, steer clear of co-workers who hit the office sniffling and coughing. And third, know the places where viruses and bacteria tend to hang out and how to properly clean these things—so you can drastically reduce your odds of accidentally buying yourself a week in bed with body aches and a fever....

While stereotypes never capture the whole story, underlying both conditions is a rigid obsessiveness that appears within the first few years of life, as well as difficulties reading and responding appropriately to social signals. Not to mention, two of the major triggers for anorexia are a profound sense of alienation and sensitivity to social ranking, according to Dr. Janet Treasure, professor of psychiatry and director of the eating disorders unit at King’s College in London....

UV-A1 rays make up approximately 75% of all UV-A radiation. And while most of the day’s UV-B radiation happens between 10 am and 2 pm, UV-A is present all day. And it’s just as damaging: After a couple of two-hour exposures, researchers observed increased levels of enzymes that break down collagen, encourage aging at a molecular level, and cause darkening of the skin. As the daily exposure continued, the damage worsened....

Didn’t manage to finish your latest run without taking a breather? Don’t be so hard on yourself. Walking during your run isn’t cheating—it’s actually your body’s natural way of preserving energy. (Go from walking to running in just 30 days!) In a new study out of Ohio State University, researchers asked college students to travel several hundred feet within different time constraints. When students were given ample time, they tended to walk....

MORE: 12 “Health” Foods Proven to be Ridiculously Unhealthy The premise is simple: Elite Daily put comedian Tyler Fischer into a Whole Foods apron and set him loose in one of the chain’s New York City locations to mess with customers’ heads. And while you think you’d call BS if an employee told you a fruit was “harvested by 100% grass-fed Malaysian children,” you’d be surprised at how many of these shoppers just smile and nod....

First, the new case for eating more produce: Researchers tracked the health and eating habits of more than 32,500 Swedish women for 10 years, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Medicine. Women who had the highest levels of antioxidants—meaning they noshed the most produce; approximately seven daily servings—had a 20% lower risk of heart attack. More from Prevention: 8 Foods That Pack Disease-Fighting Power We know what you’re thinking: Seven servings of produce a day?...

There are a few theories as to why the blood rushes to your brain’s frontal lobe (the area near your forehead) when you’re slurping something sub-zero, says lead researcher Jorge Serrador, MD, of Harvard Medical School and the War Related Illness and Injury Center. “One theory is that it’s a relationship with the trigeminal nerve, which runs through the upper palate of your mouth. When something cold hits it, it may directly increase blood flow to your brain,” he says....

Anxiety hurts. We’re talking about actual physical pain. The source can vary depending on the individual, but many people with anxiety suffer from “somatic” symptoms—headaches, muscle pain, rapid heart rate, stomach pain, acid reflux, and excessive sweating, says Royce Lee, MD, a psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at University of Chicago. Somatic symptoms result from chronic stress. When you’re tense, your body’s sympathetic nervous system goes on high alert: muscles contract, pulse rises, blood pressure soars....

Chinese five-spice powder is traditionally used in meat dishes, but this blend, which usually includes cinnamon, star anise, fennel seed, and cloves, is a terrific substitute for plain cinnamon in applesauce and oatmeal. I also love it in my homemade pumpkin yogurt. Use equal amounts of canned pure pumpkin, applesauce, and yogurt, and mix in raisins, a sprinkling of any chopped nut, and five-spice powder. –Diane Bumpass, Prevention reader, Richmond, VA A Fresh Flavoring for Fish Combine 6 parts each coriander and paprika, 2 parts each dried mint and cayenne, and 1 part each cinnamon and garlic powder....

The waitress puts the cake down in the middle of the table, and for a moment, there is a feeling of reverence, of hushed silence, as if we were all experiencing a holy event. Forks are lifted. Eyes are cast down. Breathing stops. Will it taste as divine as it looks? Will it be as good as the last chocolate cake we ate—or the first? Can we get a fork in there fast enough to procure a satisfying morsel or will our beloved friends take such big bites that there will be none left?...

It all started because researchers wanted to see how handedness influenced which ear people held their cell phones to. They surveyed over 700 people and found that 68% of right-handed people held their cell phones to their right ear, 25% to their left ear, and 7% had no preference. Similarly, 72% of left-handed people held their phones to their left ear, 23% to their right ear, and 5% had no preference....

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Know this: The majority of people who have passed out are absolutely fine, says Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, M.B.B.S., clinical epidemiologist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. As for the rest, an underlying health condition could be to blame, and that could mean potentially serious health concerns down the road. Fainting, no matter why it happens, is the result of a short period of time when the brain’s blood supply is decreased, explains Lawrence Phillips, M....

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