CHICAGO - Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does.

Here's a question as we head into New Year's resolution time: What's the best thing to commit to in order to lose weight?

Yoga and meditation instructor Susan Ginsberg said she found a higher calling when she started a special business in 2007, helping cancer patients and those with illnesses cure their anxiety through the power of breathing. Ginsberg’s program, Stop and Breathe, teaches people the proper way to breathe deeply as a tool for relaxation. “I was a yoga teacher previously, and I started working with a ...

Yoga and meditation instructor Susan Ginsberg said she found a higher calling when she started a special business in 2007, helping cancer patients and those with illnesses cure their anxiety through the power of breathing.Ginsberg’s program, Stop and Breathe, www.stopandbreathe.org, teaches people the proper way to breathe deeply as a tool for relaxation.“I was a yoga teacher previously, and I ...

Layer of almond streusel gives this moist apple cake a slight crunch. Why does the smell of apples cooking speak to us so deeply? When an apple dessert is in the oven, the entire household becomes enchanted with the smell.

In this week’s Torah portion, we meet a frustrated and dejected Moses. God’s reluctant leader of the Jewish people cannot convince Pharaoh to free the Israelites from bondage, no matter how emphatically he proclaims, “Let my people go.”

The new ABC show based on Kim Gatlin's novel about a 'mean girl' forced to move home, stars Leslie Bibb and Kristin Chenoweth. It was the title that hooked them. Then it nearly sank them.

Exercise is easy. Anyone can do it. The time to start is now. Say those three sentences again and again until they play like a Gaga song, wrap around your brain and lift you off the couch. And please, do not use lack of energy as an excuse.

It's been a week since I visited the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre and the braid of cedar around my wrist is still there. The bracelet reminds me to breathe more deeply. It reconnects me with the sense of expansiveness I felt the second I walked through the Centre's giant carved doors.

All hail the Queen. By which, of course, I mean the sovereign named Latifah, the screen powerhouse whose effect on moviegoers is to make them sit taller, breathe more deeply, and open hearts more fully. I am a faithful subject who unapologetically enjoys Queen Latifah's movie vehicles, however shiny or rusty.