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It’s a no brainer that you should never send naked images or explicit messages to someone you’ve only just met, but even your partner can leave his phone face up on his desk, or lose her phone at a restaurant. That’s why being coy is key. While the text itself should be PG, that doesn’t mean it’s serving a purely innocent purpose. “Knowing that your partner is thinking about sex with you is a huge turn on throughout the day....

The veggie-based balls aren’t a shameless attempt to fake meat, though. As part of its efforts to be more eco-friendly, the company wants to replace some of the 150 million beef and pork meatballs it sells each year with a more sustainable, vegetarian alternative that’s free of the carbon emissions that go hand-in-hand with conventional farming machinery (the Food and Agriculture Organization attributes 18% of the human-caused greenhouse gases to livestock production) ,and the cows themselves (cows produce an insane amount of gas, as we reported on here)....

“September is a season of renewal,” says Liz Josefsberg, Director of Brand Advocacy at Weight Watchers and, as it happens, Jennifer Hudson’s meeting leader. “August is the end of vacation, lots of friends visiting, lots of chardonnay. By the end of August I feel people are exhausted, they want to start back up fast. September proves to be the perfect time.” “People’s routines are more disjointed in the summer,” says Greg Hottinger, MPH, RD, and co-author of Coach Yourself Thin....

Can you hear your coworkers chatting right now? Then your office environment is too distracting for you to concentrate on work, according to a new Swedish study. Researchers had 24 people perform a series of tests simulating the kinds of things you do at work, like information searching and generating words, in both a quiet environment and one with people speaking in the background. No surprise: Workers in the noisy room performed 8....

Her career kept her chained to her desk 10 to 12 hours each day, with no physical activity. She ate junk food on the run. Obesity, fatigue, depression, borderline high blood pressure, frustration, and poor sleep were catching up with her. Frightened by her lifestyle’s potential health risks, she came to me. I designed an eating plan to fit her hectic schedule and urged her to take daily walks with her husband....

The next time you feel a migraine coming on, glance out the window: A stormy day might be the culprit. Lightning appears to trigger migraine headaches, according to surprising new research from the University of Cincinnati. After tracking the headaches of 90 middle-aged adults for several months, researchers noted that migraines were more common on days with lightning compared to days with more mild weather. What’s behind the strange finding?...

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But it doesn’t stop at mealtime. There’s a whole market of natural health products that fall in the gray area between food and medicine, explains Mehrdad Hajibabaei, PhD, assistant professor at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph. Hajibabaei and his team of scientists set out to find what’s really inside those tablets, capsules, extracts, roots, and teas. Turns out, some pretty shady stuff, according to their recently published study in Food Research International....

Nigella Lawson always vowed to never exercise. The cookbook author and host of her own cooking show was famous for unapologetically enjoying her food, and equally famous for her curvy figure. But that’s all changed. “I got to an age where it was either eat less or move more,” the star of ABC’s The Taste told FoxNews.com. “Having said that, I’m even more embarrassed to say that I enjoy it....

In a fascinating new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers set out to investigate whether nutrient variety might be linked to sleep length. To do it, they examined data on several thousand Americans, culled from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By comparing each individual’s daily dietary intake with his or her sleep patterns, researchers were able to parse out a specific relationship between food variety and quality of rest....

Researchers examined whether two specific probiotic strains, Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LGG) and Bifidobacterium animalis (BB-12), could quell colds among some particularly good subjects: nearly 200 college students. Why college kids? Because they sleep less, spread germs like crazy, and are generally more stressed than the average adult—all habits that increase their odds of getting sick. More from Prevention: The Best (And Worst) Natural Cold Remedies Half the students consumed a daily probiotic cocktail for 12 weeks, while the rest were given a placebo....

Pritikin Diet to fight diabetes When combined with exercise, the Pritikin Diet can improve heart-disease risk factors; prevent and control Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and several cancers; promote weight loss. It’s low in fat and sodium and rich in natural unrefined carbs, vitamins, minerals, beneficial phytochemicals, antioxidants and dietary fiber with adequate amounts of protein and essential fatty acids. Pritikin Diet Recipes: Roasted jumbo prawns Portabello burgerBlueberry cheesecake Also try Prevention’s New 30-Day Diabetes Diet to help manage your condition....

Meatless MondayGreat Peasant Dishes of the World When we had our annual summer barbecue family get-together recently, I served tarator as a side dish. It was a hit with our guests. The recipe is flexible – if you have no walnuts, you can substitute another nut, such as almonds or pecans. No dill? Use fresh mint, chives or parsley. Tarator Serves 4 Ingredients 3 small cucumbers3 cups plain yogurt2 tablespoons olive oil2 teaspoons finely minced garlic½ teaspoon salt (or to taste)5 tablespoons chopped walnuts1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill...

Researchers found that those who are chronically short of sleep can lower their risk of type 2 diabetes just by catching more zzz’s. They studied 19 men who routinely got about 6 hours of sleep a night during weekdays and a bit more on the weekends, and brought them to a sleep lab for two weekends. When men got 10 hours of sleep three nights in a row, their insulin sensitivity—a risk factor for diabetes—greatly improved....

[sidebar]A young man recently resigned his position in our company and wrote on his exit form, “I can’t believe that people a few doors away from me sent e-mail messages instead of coming to talk to me face-to-face.” Seeing a smiling face can be a moment of joy! I remember these words from a Wordsworth sonnet: “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!...

Keep Hair Hydrated Moisture conducts electricity, so low humidity and temperatures leave hair prone to static cling-which increases fivefold for every 10-degree drop in the mercury during cold weather, explains Yohini Appa, PhD, Senior Director, Scientific Affairs at Neutrogena Oil production in the scalp also declines with each passing decade, making frizz and flyaways more likely. Keep it Healthy:Shampoo every 2 or 3 days. Daily washing depletes natural oils; it also means you’re more likely to use high heat styling tools like flat irons and dryers....