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To All Of Our Best You Friends

We hate to have to tell you this but, with today’s newsletter, Best You is signing off. You’ll find us now at readersdigest.com. And as of next week, you will begin receiving readersdigest.com’s Health Digest newsletter We’ve totally loved creating and publishing nearly a year’s worth of tips for you—all…Read More…

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No Place Like Om

The busy woman’s guide to meditation

We love the idea of meditation, but who has the time? Best You pal Priscilla Warner, author of the new book Learning to Breathe, found an answer: multitask. One meditation expert told her, “If you’re immersed in an experience, that’s meditation. For instance, you can peel potatoes and be meditating…Read More…

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Poll: Is Sex Over-rated

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Beat Bloat

Best bets for avoiding inflation

Our friend Melina Jampolis, MD, tells us how to defeat that swollen feeling: 1. Steer clear of artificial sweeteners. 2. Go easy on soft drinks and sparkling cocktails. 3. Don’t use straws: you’ll suck in way too much air. 4. Drink water with lemon. “It’s a diuretic so it helps…Read More…

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Forget Your Lines

and decrease your creases…

Hmmm, what do those indentations around your mouth say? (And no, we don’t mean those adorable dimples.) They say you did a lot of sunbathing once, or that you were a smoker, or simply that you’re growing older and lines and folds happen. If they bother you—some of us think…Read More…

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One Thing I’ll Never Do Again

“I will never again let a curse word fly and reverberate off the trees of a golf course just because I duffed the shot.  Is it really worth the deafening silence the trees and your partners offer, to know that you just cussed out a one-and-a-half inch ball only because…Read More…

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One-Dish Dinner

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Risotto made simple

Make risotto the easy way with this tip from restaurateur Joe Bastianich. Read more…

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Are You More Like Your Mother Than You Care To Admit?

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Get A Leg Up

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To look great in jeans, bend here

Follow these leg toning moves from Olympic bronze medal winning speed skater,Allison Baver. Read more…

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Brow Beater

Disguise those stray grays the easy way

New York City beauty and fashion maven Charla Krupp’s secret to disguising gray in your brows. Read more…

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