Health and Beauty Articles for Women

When you’re bored with working out, it’s tempting to just bail. Our three-pronged routines will keep you amped.

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Age Erasers for Women

Look–and feel–years younger with easy tips you can do every day.

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Smelling a fragrance that’s similar to one you wore in happier days can brighten your mood today. Learn how to Eau back in time.

Mary Rose Almasi

How To Find A Scent That Soothes You
Because everyone’s past is unique, odor associations vary wildly. Some people love roses, while others might hate the smell because it reminds them of a grandmother’s funeral or a creepy prom date. But there are a few scents with broad appeal. Studies have shown that citrus scents tend to make people feel positive, while lavender makes people feel relaxed, Herz says. If you don’t know what your feel-good odors are, think back to the scent you wore in high school, or the magnolia trees that bloomed outside your college dorm window. Or go even younger, to childhood, and recall happy holiday meals or a special dessert you and your mom used to make (sweets make for powerful scent associations—comfort foods lead to comforting thoughts). As the designers of this fall’s nostalgic fragrances can attest, childhood is a great source of inspiration, primarily because most of us link being a kid with innocence and happiness. Plus, childhood is loaded with firsts—like the first trip to the beach (that salty-air smell!) or the first trip to the circus (the cotton candy scent!)—that tend to offer up powerful frames of reference.

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Smelling a fragrance that’s similar to one you wore in happier days can brighten your mood today. Learn how to Eau back in time.

Mary Rose Almasi

Glimmers of hope are maybe (finally!) poking through the economic gloom. And while a squirt of perfume won’t replace your depleted 401(k), it could dull the sting. How so? “Aromas can elicit dramatic changes in your emotional state and cause you to think back to a person, place, or time when you first experienced a particular smell,” says Pamela Dalton, Ph. D., a sensory scientist at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. If the experience was a joyful one, you’ll feel happy again—almost as powerfully—with a whiff of the same notes.

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If living with your parents taught you anything, it’s that the more rules there are, the more you want to break them. And losing weight can seem like nothing but rules. Fortunately, rebellion has its advantages: Disregarding strict food guidelines could be the secret to a successful slim-down. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that people with a flexible approach to eating-one that allows for sweets and other perceived slip-ups-had a better record of maintaining weight loss than dieters with an “all or nothing” strategy. How can you do it without skidding into a diet danger zone? We got top nutrition pros to confess the supposedly vital weight-loss principles they violate. Employ their secrets to stay satisfied without gaining an ounce.

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The urge to scarf is more than a hunger cue gone wild. It’s a window into your nutritional needs and your personality.

Bridget Doherty

Who hasn’t been there: in the throes of a food craving so intense that having Jillian Michaels appear in the flesh wouldn’t hold you back from that bag of chips…or greasy slice of pizza…or chocolate confection. But why exactly are these common food joneses so powerful?

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Use these tactics to stay on track and lose weight

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Want to join the club? There are five basic principles, designed to amp up your metabolism and help you blast fat.

Each rule has been proven successful time and again by the many men and women who’ve already lost weight–and kept it off. Here are our five easy steps to weight loss, and the science behind each one.

Excerpt from The Belly Off! Diet by Jeff Csatari

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If you’re prone to lose your cool, you’re not alone. Just this week we saw three major public meltdowns: South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” at President Obama during his speech to Congress about health care.

Then pro tennis player Serena Williams released a feisty tirade against a line judge at the U.S Open. (Williams was later fined $10,000 for the outburst and lost the match due to point penalties).

Finally, Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday rushed onstage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video, grabbed the mike and said Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video was one of “the best videos of all time!”

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Yoga doesn’t just calm you down; it can also help you shed weight. Here’s how some sun salutes helped one skeptic get skinny

Nicole Beland

Week 2: Choosing My Gurus
The first step seemed obvious—cut out commute time and per-class charges by doing yoga at home, which meant getting some DVDs. I drove around borrowing titles from friends and by Monday night had a decent-size stack. Then I discovered the trouble with trying to exercise within 2 feet of your couch. Immediately after popping in the first DVD, I sat down and propped my feet up on the ottoman.

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