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But first, you need the right ice pop molds. These seven finds are easy to use and will give your freeze pops serious flair, whether you’re making them just for yourself or serving them at an outdoor party. (Ditch the processed, packaged foods and start eating clean with the simple, delicious recipes in Prevention’s Eat Clean, Lose Weight & Love Every Bite!) Koji Ring Popsicle Molds Here’s a proposal: Fill this fun eight-mold set with juice or smoothies, freeze, then slurp in style....

A quick Google search reveals that all stupid-easy appetizers require some combo of cheese, bacon, and dates. Now, we’re not knocking bacon (despite what you’ve heard, it’s not going to make you drop dead) or cheese or dates, but our taste buds are bored. So, we scoured the blogosphere for two- and three-ingredient apps and treats that you haven’t made a million times before. And, of course, we kept an eye out for clean ingredients, like fresh herbs, roasted nuts, dark chocolate, and organic produce....

Today, Anis Rahman, PhD, and chief technology officer at Applied Research and Phonetics, Inc. presented research at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, explaining how a type of radiation (terahertz radiation, or “T-rays”) can detect early signs of melanoma. While moles are the telltale signs of skin cancer, malignant melanoma begins in your skin’s pigment-producing cells before you can even see any questionable spots. T-rays, the same radiation used by airport security, can be focused just beneath the skin, potentially allowing them to detect cancerous cells before the development of full-blown moles....

It’s called exercise. How? Let us count the ways: In study after study, regular workouts have been proven to insulate you from heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, stroke, and diabetes. Exercise lowers blood pressure, reduces body fat, raises “good” cholesterol, lowers “bad” cholesterol, improves blood flow, keeps intestines and the colon healthy, and regulates key hormones. To ensure you reap all these benefits, we asked leading experts on aging and exercise to devise the ultimate anti-aging workout....

Now, here’s today’s version for the kids. One of these ways seems infinitely better. Bolthouse Farms, the natural-foods company behind the $25 million extreme carrots ad campaign, was targeting that nexus of kids and cool—a connection marketers pursue with zeal. In this case, the goal was to increase sales of better-for-you options for kids. As Jeff Dunn, CEO of Bolthouse and former president of Coca-Cola North America, told USA Today, you still have to push kids toward healthy eating, but the method of doing so is changing....

According to the results of the study, which included nearly 28,000 healthy women who took a low-dose (100 mg) aspirin or a placebo daily for 15 years, those under 65 who popped a daily aspirin lowered their risk of heart attack, stroke, and colon cancer—but they also raised their risk of major gastrointestinal bleeding, which ultimately countered the benefit. The balance of pros and cons shifted for women over 65: Although their risk of GI bleeding rose with daily aspirin use, so did the level of protection against heart disease and colon cancer, tipping the scale toward an overall benefit....

We all know what a TV binge is these days. It’s such harsh language! This kind of addictive lingo is part of our culture, and it’s so easy to apply it to most everything. Entertainment provides an escape from our reality in some ways and can serve as an educational tool as well. I consider having the time to watch a few episodes in a row a luxury. According to a 2013 Harris Interactive study, close to 62% of U....

” brings us this Brown Chickpea Salad recipe, which is makes for a mouthwatering snack or side dish. Along with some flavorful Indian spices, brown chickpea does the majority of the work in this simple yet exotic South Asian dish, which is traditionally called ‘kalo chana ko tarkari.’ The chickpeas are lightly cooked in the pan along with onion, ginger, red chili and other spices, giving them a unique softness on the inside and a pleasant toasted quality on the outside....

A berry that’s high in antioxidants? Nothing shocking there, you’re probably thinking, but this one’s a little different. While it’s true that most berries contain plenty of the free-radical fighters, ones like blueberries and blackberries mostly have an antioxidant compound called “anthocyanins.” But buffaloberries are packed with lycopene, an antioxidant thought to help reduce the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and macular degeneration. Nutritionally speaking, that makes the buffaloberry more similar to tomatoes than to other berries, says study co-author Neil Reese, PhD, a South Dakota State University ethnobotanist....

Or at least that’s what the findings of a recent study published in the journal Clinical Nutrition seemed to suggest. When researchers tracked the weight and dietary patterns of more than 7,000 adults from 2003 to 2009, those whose diets were made up of more than 20% protein (especially animal protein) were significantly more likely to gain more than 10% of their body weight compared to people whose diets contained less than 15% protein....

Herbal Throat Lozenges PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES / TOTAL TIME: 50 MINUTES + COOLING TIME / YIELD: 170 1 Tbsp dried sage leaves ¼ c + 1 Tbsp slippery elm powder2 c sugar ½ c blackstrap molasses ¼ c honey More from Prevention: 19 Bizarre Home Cures That Work GREASE 15” x 10” sheet pan with melted coconut oil or cooking spray.2. BRING 1 cup water to a boil in teakettle or small saucepan....

For healthy skin, collagen is key: This naturally occurring protein keeps skin smooth and youthful, but our bodies produce less collagen as we get older. The result? Thinner skin, dryness, and more wrinkles. So it makes sense that companies are constantly coming up with new products and techniques that purport to boost collagen levels. The latest innovation, however, seems like a bit much: Liquid collagen drinks that claim to boost the body’s natural collagen production....

To reach these conclusions, researchers analyzed data from 9,569 adults, categorizing them into three groups: low-cooking (those who cooked dinner once or less per week), medium-cooking (two to five times per week), and high-cooking (six to seven times per week). They then examined peoples’ responses to detailed questions about dietary patterns, and whether or not they’d been trying to lose weight. MORE: 8 Weight Loss Tricks For People Who Don’t Cook What they found: Those who cooked most often on average ate 137 fewer calories, 3 g less fat, and 16 g less sugar per day than those who didn’t cook more than one meal a week....

The naturopathic doctor, nutritionist, and co-author of Ultimate You: A 4-Phase Total Body Makeover with celebrity fitness trainer Joe Dowdell, says you can ditch the bloat and the sluggishness by eating fiber-filled foods that support your liver—and are probably already in your fridge or on your kitchen counter. (A ton of water doesn’t hurt either.) “When you think of your body’s detox capacities as a bucket that must be emptied—after, say, a summer of indulgence—remember there are two ways to stop the bucket from overflowing: dump the bucket (i....