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    Michele Promaulayko

    Michele Promaulayko

    Special Contributor

    Michele Promaulayko is an influential voice on health, wellness, beauty, relationships, and women’s issues. She is an award-winning editor and journalist who has led world-class media brands, such as Women’s Health and Cosmopolitan, delivering life-changing advice to millions of readers. As the current Editorial-Director-at-Large for THE WELL, Michele continues to shape the conversation around modern wellness. Michele has authored two books on healthy living, Look Better Naked and 20 Pounds Younger. With Sugar Free 3 she tackles one of the biggest health problems Americans struggle with today—sugar dependency—and provides a simple, actionable solution for evading its detrimental impact.

  • The most effective diet change you can make to lose weight in 2020

    For anyone struggling with weight issues, lack of willpower, or even just fatigue and low energy, this one change will make all the difference.

  • Banish these 5 secretly sugary foods in 2020 to lose weight, fast

    Food companies are tricking you into eating more sugar, and these five foods are the top culprits.

  • Practicing?‘Slow Beauty’?Can Reduce Stress and Make You Glow —Inside and Out

    Lit from within: Looking your best means taking care of yourself, body and soul. (Photo courtesy of SpaRitual)

  • A Sanctuary of Beauty and Wellness in the Bahamas

    The clean, minimalist design of The Cove resort is intended to reduce visual stress. ?(Photo courtesy of The Cove)

  • Boost Your Energy Level and Mood In Just Minutes

    Lift your upper body, bringing your arms straight in from of you, and your legs, bent slightly at the knees. Cross Jumps: Standing with your feet shoulder-width apart, sit down into a deep squat, booty engaged. Wood Chops: Start standing, with your feet shoulder-width apart, and your hands clasped together in a fist.

  • This New Site Lets You Create Your Own Feel-Good Wish List

    Shopping as self-care? We’re down with that!

  • This Body-Boosting Secret Wards Off Colds, Puffy Eyes, and Excess Weight Gain

    Three wellness experts weigh in on what you can do to boost the function of your lymph system.

  • It’s Time to Give?Your New Year’s Wishes a Makeover

    We’re welcoming the beginning of 2016, ending the countdown to the new year and kicking off another: the time it will take for the typical New Year’s resolution to fail. That’s not pessimism; it’s statistically supported realism! According to multiple studies, nearly half of Americans make New Year’s resolutions and only a paltry 8 percent of them ever achieve what they aspire to.

  • What It Takes to Be Great

    Lewis Howes is a pro-athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur who hosts a top-ranked podcast where he interviews the best and brightest minds in health, entrepreneurship, relationships, and lifestyle. Below is an excerpt from his new, best-selling book, The School of Greatness. I’m a pretty good athlete, but there are legions who are far better than I’ll ever be. Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson accomplished more in sports as a teenager than I will in my entire life.

  • Crazy-Cool, Bod-Sculpting Moves You Can Do on a Treadmill

    This is not your typical treadmill workout.

  • What’s In My Gym Bag: Yahoo Health Editor-in-Chief Michele Promaulayko?

    Take a peek inside Yahoo Health Editor-in-Chief Michele Promaulayko's gym bag.

  • Why Meditation Is Really a Group Activity

    Just because you’re in your own head doesn’t mean you have to go it alone.

  • Tweak This Daily Habit to Fight Stress

    Hydrotherapy has been around for centuries — maybe it’s time you try it!? Water — it does a body good. You can use your shower or tub time to boost your health in some fascinating ways, says?Vicky Vlachonis, author of?The Body Doesn’t Lie.? As an osteopath and pain expert, Vlachonis pays close attention to how health is impacted by a convergence of factors in our lives — emotions, food, exercise, relationships.

  • 3 Strength Moves That Will Make You Feel Invincible?

    “When we really endeavor to build up our physical strength, something happens to the inner, mental, emotional, spiritual strength."

  • Actress Cobie Smulders Shares a Life-Saving Tip

    By the time the cancer — which typically strikes women twice Cobie’s age — was discovered, she had tumor on both ovaries and the disease had spread to surrounding tissue and lymph nodes.

  • How The Avengers' Cobie Smulders Got In Kick-Butt Shape

    In her role as agent Maria Hill in The Avengers: Age of Ultron, out Friday, Smulders kicks butt and takes names.

  • Outsmart Colorectal Cancer With This Life-Saving Advice From Katie Couric

    Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric talked with Yahoo Health about the importance of colorectal cancer screening.

  • How To Eat Clean (Without Going Crazy)

    If this is your idea of a frozen treat, you might need to chill out!?(Photo: Corbis/Daniel Smith) Like most people who care about eating healthfully, at one point or another, you’ve probably tried to stick to super-strict guidelines that effectively eliminated all pleasure and flexibility from your diet. For example, if you’re at a work conference and your food of choice isn’t available, you should survey the snack table and settle on an alternative that will satiate you.

  • 10 Surprising Stress Busters

    Learn to say no. “Overcommitting reduces the time you have to tend to your own needs — like eating healthfully, sleeping an appropriate number of hours, or caring for your immediate family,”?says Nanette Gartrell, MD, author of “My Answer Is No — If That’s Okay with You.” Not sure how to gracefully decline? University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland found that women who slept five or fewer hours a night or who had poor-quality sleep due to tossing and turning had more signs of facial aging — like fine lines and uneven pigmentation — in just one week.

  • 10 Ways To Boost Your Body Love

    Your health--and fitness--depend on it.