The Enlightenment Diet
Bruce Feiler is the author of Walking the Bible and Abraham and the host of Walking the Bible on PBS. His new book, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, is published Oct. 6.
Fasting is a practice that Jews and Muslims, believers and scientists, Deepak Chopra and Glenn Beck all embrace. But does going without food really deliver spiritual and physical benefits? Bruce Feiler investigates.
The Ghost Whisperer star was mortified in 2007 after unflattering photos of her in a black bikini showed up online-and on every newsstand-specifica...
You'd Be So Pretty If...
Dara Chadwick is the author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies—Even When We Don’t Love Our Own, which grew out of her experience as Shape magazine’s 2007 Weight-Loss Diary columnist. A former magazine staff editor, she’s a New England-based freelance journalist specializing in health, wellness and lifestyle topics.
No Mother's Day would be complete without one key emotion: guilt. Dara Chadwick, author of You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies-Even When We Don't Love Our Own explores how moms' subtle behaviors shape their daughters feelings about weight and body image.
The Exercise Myth
Director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry at Tufts University, and author of a new approach to weight loss called The Instinct Diet, which was recently featured in The Daily Beast.
Are the benefits of exercise overblown? Susan B. Roberts, author of the hot new book The Instinct Diet, says that when it comes to losing weight, the treadmill gets you nowhere fast.
If your belly is expanding, there are several indications it could be a result of the recession. From fast food to stress to six packs (brewskies, not abs), an economic downturn can wreak havoc on your bottom line and waistline.
The Science Behind Feeling Full
Casey Schwartz is a graduate of Brown University. She has previously written for The New York Sun and ABC News. Currently, she's working on a book about the brain world.
Millions of years have honed the mechanisms that compel us to eat. Unfortunately, when it's time to stop eating, evolution has given us far fewer tools.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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