First came workout boot camps. Then off-the-grid yoga retreats. Next, hotel chains touting celebrity-orchestrated fitness programs. Now, there is another way to travel without leaving your workout behind. Fitness pop-ups in vacation destinations like Capri, Sri Lanka, Goa and Vietnam all offer relaxing getaways combined with exercise options, sightseeing and meals prepared by a professional…
Adriana Molello set her best friend up with her future husband in 2014. By the end of the couple’s destination wedding in 2017, Ms. Molello was in tears. And they weren’t happy ones. “We had been good friends since we were born. Her parents are my godparents. I helped her husband pick out her engagement…
Constipation is a very common symptom that many women experience during pregnancy. Some women have constipation at an early stage of their pregnancy, while it does not affect other women until much later on. In this article, we explain why constipation is common in pregnancy and discuss safe treatments and home remedies that women can…
Healthy relationships do not begin with money, but financial issues inevitably arise with time. Suddenly it turns out that you have much less in common than it seemed at first. While you are dreaming of a mortgage to buy your apartment, he is looking for the Mercedes of his dream and generates ideas for a…
Fashion is a very ambiguous and changeable thing, and everybody treats it the way they want. The world of nail art is no exception, it is also constantly evolving. Masters of manicure also strive to succeed. Every season, they come up with new trends to win as many supporters as possible. But sometimes it seems…
After 20, you suddenly realize that men of 30-40 years cease to be perceived as middle-aged and can be quite attractive. The confidence, strength, and charm that an adult person has can rarely be seen in guys of your age. But the very idea of being with him seems frighteningly strange. One of the main…
LOS ANGELES — Mena Suvari, the actress known for both “American Woman” and “American Beauty,” was in the front row at last week’s first Vegan Fashion Week at the California Market Center, wearing a black textured patent-something cap with matching jacket and pants by Enda, along with “leather” shoes by a brand that bore the…
One humid night in September, I called a mental health crisis center. I told the volunteer who answered that when I looked into my future, I saw nothing good. I felt so overwhelmingly alone in the world I was terrified. The despair that had been haunting me for so long would, I feared, eventually kill…
A few days before Thanksgiving, I visited my friend Hrishikesh Hirway at his home in Los Angeles. The first thing I noticed was the unusual group of ingredients sitting on his kitchen counter: a container of Cool Whip, a premade graham-cracker crust and a can of Alphonso mango purée. No matter how I tried to…
Many middle-aged marathon runners and other endurance athletes are familiar with concerns from their loved ones — and occasionally their physicians — that they might be exercising too much and straining or harming their hearts. For all of them, a large-scale study published recently in JAMA Cardiology should be mollifying. It finds that middle-aged men…