Health

Seafood offers a lot of health benefits, like lean protein and healthy fats, but our taste for it isn't so beneficial for the earth.

You know, I hear a lot of people complain about work — how busy we are, how swamped we are, how crazy things are at work. I’m not excusing myself — I do it too, and check in on my iPhone constantly when I’m not sitting at my laptop. And while I believe you, I really do, about how busy things are for you, I also wonder if, well…you love to work?

Beware the taco salad, says a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research last week. It found that dieters' focus on food names can lead them to overeat.

Now here's a “Well, duh!” moment. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at how obesity exacerbates age-related decline, and that “a combination of weight loss [from] and exercise provides greater improvement in physical function than either intervention alone.”

There are a lot of people making claims to know the secret to lasting happiness, from Oprah Winfrey and her various gurus to Deepak Chopra. Now, Reuters reports ("Switch off, chip in, be happy, say activists" by Olesya Dmitracova) that a new "global movement for happiness" — Action for Happiness, apparently endorsed by the Dalai Lama and British Psychological Society — is on the scene and has decided to weigh in.