Health & Balance Features
- Ways to Improve Your Energy
Here's a rundown of some of the most popular energy supplements – what’s likely to help and what isn’t.
- Does Meditation Help You Lose Weight?
Meditation helps with high blood pressure. It may also help you handle emotional eating, which could help you lose weight.
- Clutter vs. Hoarding: What's the Difference?
When do you need to worry about the mess? Find out the difference between clutter and hoarding, and how to keep mess in check.
- When Procrastination Is a Problem, and How to Fix It
Many people put things off to an unhealthy degree. Find out why we do this and how to get things done on time.
- How to Claim Some 'Me Time'
Everyone needs some “me time” to lower stress and boost energy. Learn how to set aside time for yourself.
- Positive Thinking Sets You Up for Success
Keeping a positive mindset works wonders when you’re trying to make changes to your life that may take some time.
- Holidays With Your Ex
Five tips to help make the holidays easier after a divorce.
- Tips to Feel Better All Day
Here are 7 tried and true ways to feel better from the time you wakeup, until you go to bed.
- Can You Really Boost Your Happiness?
If you feel down in the dumps, these ideas may help you find greater joy in your daily life. Ideas may include: volunteering, fitness, managing stress, and more.
- Make Time for Play
Playtime isn’t just for kids. Learn how to incorporate play into your life and how to find opportunities for fun.
- Personal Best: Hayden Panettiere
The actress and singer shares her healthy-living habits.
- Work it Out: Getting Along with Co-Workers
Not hitting it off with your co-workers? You might need to take a step back.
- October Is Depression Awareness Month
Our experts give tips for coping with depression and feeling your best.
- The Power of Female Intuition
Go with your gut. It's more scientific than you might think.
- Pucker Up! How to Be a Better Kisser
Find out the secrets behind a good kiss, and how you can become a better kisser.
- Addicted to Your Smartphone? Here's What to Do
Could you actually be addicted to your smartphone? If not, why is it so hard to turn it off? Here are tips on reclaiming your time and concentration.
- Labyrinths: Ancient Aid for Modern Stresses
Walking a labyrinth can be good for your health.
- My WebMD: A Young Mother Lets Go of Her Painful Past
Abused as a child and addicted to drugs as a teen, Chelsea Baum turned her life around in an amazing way.
- Why Loneliness Matters
Loneliness really does hurt -- not just your emotions, but your physical health, too. Here's how to reconnect.
- Acupuncture Goes Mainstream
Doctors are increasingly turning to acupuncture to help conditions ranging from allergies to asthma, chronic pain, and female sexual dysfunction.
- Larry King Hosts 25 Years of Health News
In December, King will turn off his microphone for the last time. As they prepare to wind up the show, he and his longtime producer, Wendy Walker, reminisced with WebMD about the ways in which health coverage has changed over the years, and how “Larry King Live” has helped to change it.
- Behind the Scenes: A New Book From Larry King’s Producer
From depression and addictions to HIV/AIDS and cancer, celebrities and ordinary people alike learned to be comfortable opening up about their health, writes Wendy Walker, Larry King Live's senior producer, in her new book.
- 10 Ways to Improve Your Day in Just 5 Minutes
Short on time and feeling overwhelmed? Get quick tips to improve your mood so you can take on the day.
- Stressed Out About a Problem? Try the Focus-Shift Trick.
Worried about a nagging problem? Learn how to shift your attention and focus on the day ahead.
- Speed Shopping: When You Have 10 Minutes at the Grocery Store
Searching for healthy meal options but pressed for time? Get tips on navigating the supermarket aisles with good nutrition in mind.
- Spend Your Way to Happiness? 5 Things to Consider (Before You Buy)
WebMD provides tips to help your spending increase your happiness.
- New to Massage: FAQ
If you’re new to massages, all the types and techniques can be a little overwhelming. WebMD answers common massage questions and explains the different styles.
- Get Back to Happy
How to recover your happiness after a setback.
- The Secret (and Surprising) Power of Naps
Need to recharge? Don't lean on caffeine -- a power nap will boost your memory, cognitive skills, creativity, and energy level.
- Actor Lou Gossett Takes On Discrimination
Actor Lou Gossett has a new autobiography and a new project: abolishing racism, violence, and ignorance.
- 9 Ways to Get Your Energy Back
Feeling fatigued? WebMD tells you how to get your energy back.
- The WebMD Healthy You Challenge: Two Mom Makeovers
WebMD's expert team helps two crazy-busy mothers transform their eating, workout, and life routines -- plus tips on Mother's Day gifts for your own makeover.
- How to Hold Your Liquor
WebMD explains how to reduce the effects of alcohol with tips like drinking more water, avoiding cheap alcohol, and more.
- Happiness: 6 Myths and Truths
WebMD debunks happiness myths including the belief that "happiness is a destination" and more.
- Cloris Leachman's Latest Chapter
Author, actress, and dancer Cloris Leachman talks about aging, cooking, her new book -- and why she never gets stressed out.
- Jimmy Fallon Has a New Show and a New Health Regimen
Late Night TV host Jimmy Fallon tells us about his healthier new self, conquering stage fright, and life as the new king of comedy.
- Kristen Bell Talks About Acting, Health Advice, and the Children of Uganda
Kristen Bell, narrator of Gossip Girl and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall can't forget the little ones orphaned in this war-torn African country.
- 7 Splurges People Are Still Buying
If frugal is the new fabulous, here are seven little indulgences that people are still making room for in this recession.
- Good-Life Activities for Your Family
Make time for the good life together as a family. You’ll reduce stress and help your children grow up emotionally strong. Try these tips from WebMD.
- Why You’re Not Happy
Six common barriers to personal happiness and fulfillment and how to overcome them.
- In One Year, Out the Other
Here’s a New Year’s resolution anyone can keep: Resolve not to make any more New Year’s resolutions.
- Top Emotional Health Stories of 2008: Readers' Choice
Feeling good, boosting energy, and finding balance -- things we all surely would like to achieve –resonated with readers in 2008’s turbulent economic times.
- Jeff Gordon Is Driven to Help Children
Jeff Gordon knows how to win. The numbers don’t lie: four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships, three Daytona 500 victories, and more than 80 NASCAR wins. But in Gordon’s drive to succeed, he is not the only winner.
- Actress Emma Roberts on Friends, Books, and Well-Being
Actress Emma Roberts talks to WebMD about how she keeps her life in balance.
- NASCAR Star Jeff Gordon’s Healthy Life on and off the Track
Jeff Gordon is famous for his repeated NASCAR wins. But he’s also a winning husband, father, and advocate for chronically ill children.
- Make a Midlife Crisis Work for You
Part two of WebMD's Life After 40 series gives you step-by-step instructions to looking and feeling good after 40.
- Clutter Control: Is Too Much 'Stuff' Draining You?
Get your clutter under control, and your attitude and health just may improve, too.
- Wellness Coaching: The Latest Trend in Fitness
Experts share tips about choosing a wellness coach who can put you on the road to better health.
- Retreats Revive Mind, Body, and Spirit
From taking a spiritual retreat to unplugging at home, escaping from everyday distractions can help restore balance to your life. Plus, easy and inexpensive ideas for DIY retreats.
- Finding a Doctor Who Respects Your Religion
Finding a Doctor Who Respects Your Religion