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Peanut Butter and Jelly That’s right, even a drunk person can whip up this comforting (and freakin’ delicious) childhood classic. Just be sure to make it on whole wheat or whole grain bread. Why it’s awesome: The complex carbs in whole grains help absorb excess booze in your stomach, along with replenishing some of the B vitamins that get wiped out when you drink. Chicken Noodle Soup Keep a few BPA-free cans or Tetra-Paks on hand for your next bender....

The key, Streifeneder knew, was that her plan had to be quick and flexible. “I needed something practical that I could fit in wherever, whenever,” she says. So when Streifeneder heard that Prevention was looking for busy women to help test Fit in 10: Total-Body Transformation, a new fitness program designed to help you tone up and lose weight with clean eating and just 10 minutes of simple strength training a day, she decided to sign up....

If you’re trying to lose weight, before-and-after photos can be crazy-inspiring. But unfortunately, some companies pushing weight-loss products create fake before-and-after shots to increase sales—and it’s surprisingly easy to forge these photos. Just check out this video, courtesy of BuzzFeed/YouTube.com, that shows it can be as simple as finding the best angle and lighting for your next selfie: MORE: 7 Lazy Ways to Lose More Weight MORE: 9 Diet Changes Real Women Made to Lose More Than 50 Pounds Think about that next time a program or a product tries to entice you with an impressive before-and-after....

[sidebar]Unlike other core moves that can irritate your neck—we’re looking at you, crunches—this simple, gentle exercise puts you in a tabletop position, and then uses your abdominal muscles to keep you balanced as you slowly move your arms and legs. The result: a firm, strong, flat belly without all the strain. And because this is a compound movement, you’re also toning your hips, back, and upper body at the same time....

But after investing so much time and energy (not to mention money!) in your trip, you don’t want it ruined by cramps, kinks, rashes, sunburn, injury, or assorted bumps, breaks, bugs, bacteria, or viruses. And you don’t want to come back with more “baggage” (read: pounds) than you had when you left. Not to worry. Our guide to healthy travel will tell you how to eat well, avoid stress, stay safe, and travel comfortably, no matter where you’re headed or how you plan to get there....

Researchers served test meals of meatloaf with gravy, broccoli and cauliflower in butter sauce, and penne with creamy white sauce to 148 men and women between the ages of 18 and 65. Over the course of a few days, participants ate a full-fat, reduced-fat, and reduced-fat with added spice version of the meal and rated their enjoyment and each of the meal’s components. The results: participants enjoyed the reduced-fat meal with added spices just as much as the full-fat version....

Exercise can help. Try to walk 30 minutes most days of the week and see if that gets your weight loss rolling again. If you are already walking, consider making an appointment with a personal trainer to help begin a gentle strength-training program. If both of these things are in place, then it’s time to review your calorie intake. Even if you are following the South Beach Diet faithfully, if you are eating too many calories, even if they are the right calories, you won’t lose weight....

(You can walk off the weight in as little as 10, 20, or 30 minutes a day. Find out how with Prevention’s brand-new book, Walk Your Way To Better Health.) Researchers from Arizona State University found that taking three 10-minute walks each day is a smarter strategy for blood pressure control than logging a single 30-minute session. The exercisers who did multiple minisessions not only reduced their systolic blood pressure during the day and evening (similar to the 30-minute group), but they also still saw reductions the following day....

With that said, going gluten-free can be pretty hard, especially when we take into consideration the common pantry favorites that are no longer an option. Erin Scott, author of Yummy Supper (based on Scott’s award-winning blog of the same name) says that it doesn’t have to be. In fact, Scott, who is a gluten-free omnivore herself, slams the notion that living without wheat means your diet is limited. “The world is crowded with a myriad of wonderful ingredients that happen to be naturally gluten-free,” she writes in her book....

“Women with inflammatory arthritis who were currently using oral contraceptives or who had used them in the past, presented with better patient-reported outcomes within the first two years of arthritis,” the study authors wrote in the August issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research.MORE:11 Highly Effective Solutions For Sciatica For the study, the researchers analyzed data from 1,301 women aged 30 to 60 who had been diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis within the previous six months....

MORE: 5 Clean Cooking Tips You’ll Wih Someone Had Shared with You Sooner But we guarantee you’ve never seen onion-chopping hacks like the ones in this tutorial from YouTuber You Suck at Cooking. Get ready to break out your headphones, a double-A battery, and your Taekwondo skills. Things are about to get dicey.

We asked Samantha Cassetty, RD, MS, nutrition director at Luvo, just how much weight you can realistically gain in one terrible, horrible, no good, very bad (eating) day. And it turns out, you’d have to take in a ridiculous amount of food to gain even just one pound in a day. “It’s virtually impossible to gain weight overnight, even if you really blew it on bar food,” says Cassetty. “The reason comes down to calorie math....

In his new book, The Blue Zones Solution, Dan Buettner identifies the places in the world where people live the longest, or what he has termed “Blue Zones”: Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California. One big commonality of all these places where centenarians rule? They all eat diets that rely heavily on plant foods. Here, a look at exactly what these long-living locals eat and how you can start tasting the trend of living to 100....

The average age of women at their first birth has also risen over the past 4 decades, and since 2000, 46 states and DC have experienced a rise in the first-birth rate for women over 35. MORE: 17 Everyday Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer “We are definitely seeing this in our practices,” says Dr. Rebecca Starck, chair of the department of regional obstetrics and gynecology at Cleveland Clinic. Given what we know about the risks associated with pregnancy at later ages, should we be worried?...

Yoga nidra is “a deep meditative state where the mind is conscious of its surroundings, but yet the body appears to be in sleep-like state,” says Judi Bar, the lead yoga therapist at Cleveland Clinic. While you lie still in corpse pose, an instructor guides you through series of mental exercises and visualizations, such as being aware of your breath, setting an intention, and relaxing your body one part at a time....

Sixteen researchers presented compelling evidence about why the following seven habits could help warn off many neurological disorders, not just Alzheimer’s, that steal our mind. Minimize your intake saturated and trans fats. These “bad” fats tend to increase blood cholesterol levels, which encourage the production of dangerous beta-amyloid plaques in the brain—a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Chicago Health and Aging Study, people consuming the most saturated fat had triple the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease....

Thyroid disease occurs when the thyroid gland produces too much (hyperthyroidism) or too little (hypothyroidism) of the thyroid hormone. If yours is even mildly underactive (what’s known as subclinical), you might notice a slower metabolism, weaker nails, and problems concentrating. After looking at data from 14,879 participants, 691 with congestive heart failure (CHD), researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found mild hypothyroidism raises the risk of mortality in patients with the condition....

In the Entryway Create a feel-good focal point. The first thing you see when you enter your home should be something you love, whether that’s a piece of art, a vase of flowers, or a special souvenir, says Stephanie Roberts, author of Fast Feng Shui: 9 Simple Principles for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home. “A beautiful first impression helps you relax from the get-go.” Organize daily debris. If you see old newspapers on the floor and bags of Goodwill donations waiting to be dropped off, you’re going to think obligation, not relaxation....