There’s nothing more satisfying than preparing a meal with aromatic herbs grown in your own garden. Get started with this guide from Brooke Parkhurst and James Briscione, authors of Just Married & Cooking: 200 Recipes for Living, Eating, and Entertaining Together.

You know it’s good for you, but a million excuses can get between you and a workout. Here’s how to change your thinking – and your health – with tips from The Ultimate Stress-Relief Plan for Women: Heal the Destructive Effects of Stress on Your Body, by Stephanie McClellan, M.D., and Beth Hamilton, M.D.

Effective ways to go green while doing your laundry.

Make eco-friendly choices the next time you buy wine. A green-living healthy selection.

Discussing finance and money with your kids will set them up for healthy financial future.

Dining out doesn’t have to be a diet disaster. Here’s how baseball great Jorge Posada and his wife Laura keep their family from over-indulging.

This veggie is so versatile that you can eat it raw, add it to salads, steam it, boil it, bake it, stuff it, and more. When it comes to nutrition, zucchini is great. A cup of sliced zucchini is packed with vitamin C and supplies only 16 calories. From The 17 Day Diet Cookbook by Dr. Mike Moreno.

Beach season usually carries a wave of what we like to call the “re-resolution”: To backtrack and revisit those pledges we made at the start of the year that somehow (ahem) got pushed to the back burner around the second week of January. Bikinis are a hell of a motivation to lose those last few pounds, aren’t they?

The verdict has not been totally clear on vitamin E’s role in cancer prevention. Some research has suggested the vitamin might help to protect against cancer, while others have shown it either not having an effect on cancer risk or even increasing risk.

But now, a new study in the journal Cancer Prevention Research shows that two forms of vitamin E – found in corn, soybean and canola oils – may have cancer-fighting properties.

Tips for keeping laundry under control from the author of Unclutter Your Life in One Week: The less you own, the less you have to clean. If you don’t have many clothes, then your laundry baskets can’t overflow with items. This principle is true for everything in your home (fewer objects to dust, fewer papers to file) and makes a significant impact when you apply it to your wardrobe.

You only need two things for a great steak: quality meat and a hot grill. That means the onus of turning out a great steak rests squarely on the shoulders of the hunk of meat that you select. Find out what you should look for to have that perfect, juicy steak dinner.

If the core of Italian cooking is seasonality, then nothing defines it more than fresh greens. Celebrity chef Jonathan Waxman shares his favorite fresh, simple salad ideas from Italian, My Way: More Than 150 Simple and Inspired Recipes That Breathe New Life Into Italian Classics.

Heloise explains which two ingredients will make your life, and cleaning easier.