My 9 Favorite Weirdo Frugal Health Tips [Plus One I Definitely Do NOT Recommend]

 Don’t laugh. I have actually made all my kids share a fork before. If only to give them something good to complain about me when they get older. Today I had to feign shock and embarrassment. Thanks to my slightly nutty ways, this happens more than you’d think – usually when I do something I …

Do You Care What “Plus Sized” Is Called? [Would a dress by any other name still look as cute?]

This is Robyn Lawley: She’s stunningly gorgeous (obviously). She’s a model (no surprise there). She’s an advocate for body positivity (yay!). Oh, and she’s “plus sized.” (Wait, what??) It’s been said so many times that it’s nearly become rote in conversations about fashion but I think it bears repeating that plus-sized models are not plus-sized …

Adventures in PMS: My Glowing Green Smoothie Debacle [The sheen of nausea counts as glowing, right??]

A honeycrisp apple approximately the size of Jelly Bean’s head. Surely if any piece of produce could imbue me with super bloat-repelling powers it would be this magnificent beast! Truth: I have one of those period tracker apps on my phone. I’d like to say it’s just more evidence of my hysterical white lady hypochondriac …

Lululemon founder explains the problem with falling apart yoga pants: Your body. And seatbelts. [Dear Chipper, Thanks For Helping Me Quit Lululemon!]

 Which is why you should just strive to be unhappy. There’s a reason “shooting the moon” is a winning hand. Duh. More wise (ahem) words from Lululemon below. Dear Chip Wilson, Can I call you Chipper? ‘Cause I really want to. It sounds so cute – reminds me of Chipmunks. And wood chippers. But not …

I Had My Own “Touching Strangers” Moment! What would you do if a strange woman cupped your face in her hands?

 (c) Richard Renaldi “Oh, it hurts.” At first read you might imagine the woman – a stranger in all senses – grasping her chest (or arm or foot), wincing at the embarrassment of Pain in Public. On second read you might imagine the woman saying it in dismay, as if she were the cause of …

What If Obesity Is the Symptom Not the Disease? [The Research Answer to the Question of Whether You Can Be “Healthy Obese”]

Dr. Peter Attia, like many new doctors, thought he had this whole healthy living thing figured out. So much so that when a woman came into his ER one night in 2006 with uncontrolled type II diabetes and needed a foot amputation, he had nothing but “bitter contempt” for her, for allowing herself to get …

The Importance of a Good Water Filter: What I Learned From The Colorado Floods [$100 Giveaway!]

Despite living in some disaster-prone places in my life (looking at you Seattle and your SIX* active volcanoes within eyesight), I’ve been fortunate to have avoided major catastrophe. I was in Seattle for their big earthquake in 2002 but other than getting a little nauseated from watching the pavement literally roll in front of me, …