Blog Posts by Tips on Healthy Living

Got your eye on a special someone? In The Body Language of Dating: Read His Signals, Send Your Own, and Get the Guy, author Tonya Reiman shares the many ways you can let that someone know you're interested without being too transparent. Here are seven of those signals.

The Lean-to: At any distance, a woman can lean toward the object of her desire and silently speak a wealth about her intentions. As women and humans, we naturally lean toward where we want to be and away from that which we'd like to escape. When a woman leans in the direction of her target, she runs a good chance of becoming his bull's-eye.

The Deliberate Accident: "Unintentionally" brushing against a man on the dance floor, "accidentally" dipping into the same fondue stream, or "mistakenly" picking up a man's cell phone instead of her own can turn a woman's "I'm sorry" into his "Would you like to dance?" Additionally, if a woman brushes against a man's hand while passing a napkin or plucking a snack from the

To see if a potential new career is truly the right fit for you, you'll need to conduct extensive research in the real world first. Career coach Nicholas Lore shares how to get the answers you need to make an informed decision. From his book, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

Here are three tips to make sure that your career research gets to the goal line:

1. Do twenty times as much research as you feel like doing. I sometimes have clients come back from doing research as a homework assignment and discover that they have just scratched the surface. It is not enough to talk with one or two people or read a book or two. After all, you are deciding what to do with your life. The career you choose will be how you spend your days, year after year. I recommend speaking with an absolute minimum of ten people in each field of interest; the more the better. Read everything you can find on the subject.

2. Seek to

By James P. Steyer
Author of Talking Back to Facebook
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media
We may think of our kids' online, tech and mobile activities as "digital life," but to them, it's just life. Their world, as it evolves at a dizzying pace, is as much about creating media as it is about consuming it. Media devices have converged and become extremely powerful and portable. Phones aren't simply for phone calls anymore, but for listening to music, texting, filming videos, snapping and sharing photos, and accessing the Internet.

Our kids use their computers to do their homework, but they also use them to socialize, stream video, create movies and record songs. And they can communicate or connect 24 hours a day from just about any location. As parents, we want our kids to make great decisions so they can take advantage of the powerful technology that fills their lives.

But in order to make good choices, kids must know how the digital world works-and so must

Tired of worrying about a girl on the side? These basic skills will help you identify a potential cheater before you get too involved. From Death of the Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must Know about Men Who Stray, by Maxwell Billieon and Ray J.

Ask the Right Questions
Cheaters prey on the ignorant. When a woman asks the right strategic questions, a cheater will shy away from them. They get annoyed and it feels like it may take too much work to keep up the charade.

Ask Questions
Some questions you can use to sniff a cheater out are:
Can I meet your friends?
Can I meet your parents?
Can I meet you at your job for lunch?
Can I use your cell phone for the day?
Can I borrow your social network page (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to see how it works?

You should also be willing to offer the same access to them in return. If you find that all of the answers to your questions are no, or you're being asked why you need these things, then the odds are

By Susan Stiffelman
Author of Parenting Without Power Struggles
Once upon a time, books were among a child's favorite companions. A book could carry a child to another place in time, transport him to faraway lands, or inspire her to dream bigger dreams. For many youngsters today, books have become a thing of the past. Whether they're focused on electronic devices, over-scheduled with activities, or resisting because creating images in ones mind is harder than watching TV, the decline in reading has significant implications on a child's ability to become a passionate lifetime learner.

As summer approaches, the possibility of helping your child become an avid reader becomes even more challenging; without a teacher assigning nightly reading, many children's skills fall behind, encouraging them to fall into a "summer slide." In 2009, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described summer learning loss as "devastating." But if parents step in, this setback can be avoided. Here are

By Nell Stephenson
Author of Paleoista
What are the options for us Paleoistas when we're on board an airplane? That's an easy one-next to nothing. Small packs of hydrogenated pretzels and diet soda hardly constitute a healthy snack. Even while traveling in business or first class, the healthy pickings are pretty slim. Yes, the food in premium seats tends to be closer to, well, food, but it's still unlikely to be Paleo Diet-friendly unless you've called ahead (which certain airlines allow) arranged for no soy, no dairy, and no gluten in your in-flight meals. Even then, you can't be completely sure that the food will actually be there.

So, what can we do? The answer is definitely not to opt to go without eating for several hours on end. If you're only making a quick trip from L.A. to San Francisco, it's a non-issue, but if you're in it for the long haul, that's a different story.
To quote the tried-and-true Boy Scouts, we simply have to be prepared. Granted, if

By Joshua Graham
Author of Darkroom
Ten years ago, if you had told me that I could find my calling and destiny, but it would take losing my job and career, the big, beautiful house I owned, and enduring months upon months of searching through "unemployment," I would probably have said, "Thanks, but no thanks." And yet, even in the midst of my stable life of 9-hour work days, steady paychecks, health benefits, and familiar routines forged over a decade of work, I yearned to do something more, something meaningful.

Have you ever sat in your cubicle or office wondering, "Is this all there is to life?" I have. Anyone who knows me knows that I've worn many different vocational hats throughout my lifetime. By the time I settled into my career in information technology, I began to enjoy the benefits of the steady income and all that came with it, such as home ownership, supporting my family, and enjoying material necessities as well as non-essentials. And though it was

By Kristin Sidorov
White sand beaches, or maybe a cabin in the mountains... a paradise getaway of your choosing, with cat naps, good books and good friends, miles away from the pings of unending emails and stressful, jam-packed schedules. Ahhh, a blissful, stress-free vacation-can't you just see it?

Snap back to reality, where unfortunately, taking some time for a little R & R can be downright difficult. If you're like most Americans, you're reluctant to even entertain the idea of taking some time off this summer. The economy is still tough, taking time away from work and busy schedules is easier said than done, and sometimes, just planning a vacation can be more stressful than it's even worth.

But according to multiple studies, depriving yourself of time off can be bad for your health. That's excellent news for our inner beach bums just yearning for a few days made in the shade, but it's important to realize why that natural impulse to relax is there, and the serious