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Until today—because you can totally use your muffin tin to make awesome, perfectly portioned, easy to freeze meals like these. (Just please, give the thing a good scrub first. Who knows how much dust it’s collected.) Mini meat loaves A full-size meat loaf takes forever to cook, but their muffin tin counterparts only need about 20 minutes. Plus, you can wrap up individual pieces and freeze them for quick dinners later on....

[pagebreak]PVN: How did you get into Transcendental Meditation?CC: My TM [Transcendental Meditation] experience started right after the last election. Campaigns are just so hard on everything. You’re on the bus, you’re off the bus, you’re on the plane, you’re in a hotel. And that’s really your life: You think you’re not going to eat and then you eat too much, or you think you are going to eat and you don’t eat enough....

Improve Language Skills A single treadmill session can make you brainier. Exercisers who ran just two 3-minute sprints, with a 2-minute break in between, learned new words 20% faster than those who rested, in a University of Muenster in Germany study. Getting your heart pumping increases blood flow, delivering more oxygen to your noggin. It also spurs new growth in the areas of the brain that control multitasking, planning, and memory....

And if you’re watching your weight, great—this diet plan has endless slim-down potential: It painlessly slashes empty calories while supplying all the nutrients you need to look and feel your best. We’ll also help you tailor it so you can lose a pound a week, no matter what you weigh now. The diet plan is broken down into 10 easy-to-follow Principles, followed by a Promise for each, so the payoffs will always be top of mind....

MORE: What Kind Of Anger Style Do You Have? Uncontrolled anger has also been linked to other conditions, including white-blood-cell-count abnormalities, asthma, diabetes, and anorexia nervosa, as well as to everyday complaints such as backaches. If the toll on your body isn’t big enough for you, consider how it affects the quality of your everyday life. Anger, when it’s not expressed appropriately or if repressed, can be the dynamite that explodes an important relationship or gets you fired from a job....

MORE: 10 Really Great Reasons to Work Out That Have Nothing to Do With How You Look It Makes You Happier While sugar- and trans fat–filled fast food and pastries can throw off your brain’s levels of mood-regulating chemicals to spur symptoms of depression, research consistently shows that health-promoting nutrients—such as creatine, an amino acid found in grass-fed beef, omega 3’s from fatty fish, and vitamin D in dairy—can boost your mood and combat depression....

Arthritis is mainly treated with about five different types of drugs: NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), COX-2 inhibitors, DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), corticosteroids and analgesics. Find out more about these and other drugs below. DRUGS A-B Abatacept Brand Name(s): Orencia Abatacept is used alone or in combination with other medications to reduce the pain, swelling, difficulty with daily activities, and joint damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis in patients who have not been helped by other medications....

Male pattern baldness—hair thinning on the top or crown of the head, but not in front—was linked to a 32% hike in coronary heart disease risk, according to the Japanese team’s study analysis, which featured roughly 37,000 participants. The more severe the baldness, the more serious the heart disease risk—which increased to 48% among the most follically challenged, says study co-author Tomohide Yamada, MD, a member of the University of Tokyo’s department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases....

Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Apple Skillet (pictured left) Work Time: 30 minutesTotal Time: 35 minutesServings: 4 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2" cubes 4 tsp olive oil 3 slices 30% less fat center cut bacon (we used Oscar Mayer), chopped 1½ c Brussels sprouts, trimmed and quartered 1 med sweet potato (8 oz), peeled and cut into 1/2" cubes 1 med onion, chopped 2 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 3/4" cubes 4 cloves garlic, sliced 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme or 1/4 tsp dried 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon 1 c reduced-sodium chicken broth 1/8 tsp salt...

A bigger belly, however, isn’t inevitable, and tummy-toning exercises can help. A pilates workout and training is your secret weapon because it works all of your abdominal muscles: the six-pack rectus abdominis, which runs down your center; the waist-defining obliques, which wrap around your sides; and the deep transversus abdominis, which is often missed in traditional ab workouts, says LA-based Pilates instructor Michelle Dozois, who designed this Pilates workout. For maximum results, flatten your belly by pulling your navel toward your spine during each rep....

To make the most of your weekend, be sure to pencil in one activity from each category, and let the rules work for you. RULE 1: Use Your Social Network Even if you cherish “just for me” time, organize at least one weekend endeavor where you can bring along a friend. “Feeling connected and loved are among the biggest predictors of happiness,” says Cassie Mogilner, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School who specializes in happiness research....

“Work your chest on Mondays, your back and biceps on Wednesdays, and legs on Fridays.” The idea that you need to split up the body parts you strengthen into separate training days doesn’t make any sense, says Rachel Cosgrove, the creator of the Women’s Health Spartacus 4.0 Workout. Your body works as one component, she says, and so by breaking up the areas you train, you won’t take advantage of the benefits of a full-body workout—like ramping up your heart rate or spending less time working out....