Aromatherapy
After Overtime, Get Out Your Rubber Duckie. If you've been slaving away at work lately, try this quickie detox: Run a hot bath and add 15 drops of lavender oil and two cups of Epsom salts. Climb in and soak for 20 minutes, letting the lavender calm your mind while the salts unknot your muscles. There now...don't you feel better already?

Anti-Aging Ideas
Pick Your Berries. Berries, nature's smallest fruits, pack
a huge anti-aging wallop: In studies, these tiny marvels have battled the oxidative stress that researchers believe plays a key role in chronic disease development. Add fresh or frozen berries freely to your meals and for extra protection turn to berry-based supplements and drink mixes.

Children's Health
Find a Holistic Pediatrician. Your first stop for information should be the Holistic Pediatrics Association: The Alliance for Holistic
Family Health and Wellness (www.hpakids.org). Among the many useful features of the HPA site is a health professional directory that lists the nearest affiliated doctors and a page dedicated to upcoming pediatric seminars.

Colds & Flu
Make Thyme to Calm a Cough. Are you plagued by coughing fits? Then reach
for thyme, which has been used as an expectorant for centuries. Just crush some leaves of this pungent herb, mix into a rich vegetable or chicken broth and enjoy!

Cooking
Follow the Healing Path in Your Own Kitchen. For an introduction to all sorts of kitchen superstars, pick up The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Pocket Books, $7.99). Nutrition authorities Michael Murray, ND, and Joseph Pizzorno, ND, give you the inside scoop on those foods that can help your body get well—and stay well.

Digestive Health
Energize Digestion with Enzymes. A wide variety of supplemental enzymes are available, including plant-based helpers such as papain and bromelain along with animal-sourced pancreatic enzymes. Take them with meals to promote proper digestion and between meals to take advantage of their inflammation-fighting properties.

Find—and Evict—Unwanted Guests. It’s icky but true:
In the jet age, anyone anywhere can harbor intestinal parasites. Finding them requires specialized testing and one of the best-known labs is Great Smokies Diagnostic (now Genova Diagnostics): 1-800-522-4762, www.gdx.net.

Exercise
Measure Your Steps. One reason it isn't easy to lose weight is because modern life makes it so darn easy to stay put. Escape the couch's tractor beam by buying yourself a pedometer; walking an extra 2,000 steps a day (just about one mile) will let you burn 100 additional calories. Every little bit helps!

Start a Walking Club. If
you don’t work in an exercise-
friendly office just yet, don’t fret—form a lunchtime walking club instead. Walking with an officemate or two not only makes that daily trek more pleasant, but having a walking partner can also motivate you to get out and move.

Visit a Ballroom. Gotta dance for fitness but don't got a partner? Then let your fingers boogie over the keyboard to www.ballroomdancers.com (1-800-357-5358), where you can find someone to samba with in addition to learning
new steps, buying a CD of
hot tunes...even browsing the classifieds for that perfect steppin'-out outfit.

Eye Health
Ease Your Aching Eyes.
If your eyes suffer from all those hours staring at a screen, try this refreshing mini-break: Rub your palms together until they’re nice and warm, then place them over your closed eyes for 30 seconds. Repeat
as needed during the day.

Herbal Medicine
Find an Herbalist.
Some herbs—chamomile
and mint come to mind—are time-trusted home remedies for relatively simple ailments. But if you want to use herbs
to help you face a significant health challenge it’s best to consult a trained herbalist.
To find one, contact the American Herbalists Guild
at www.americanherbalists guild.com or 1-203-272-6731.

Inflammation Avoidance
Skirt Past Secondhand Smoke. All sorts of environmental stressors can
get inflammation going—and tobacco smoke, with its slew
of immune response-provoking irritants, is right near the top
of the list. Not only should you not be smoking yourself, but it's also a good idea to avoid other folks' smoke as well.

Living with Cancer
Don’t Let Cancer Invade Your Bedroom. One of the most under-discussed—but most distressing—of cancer’s side effects is how it can stop your love life dead in its tracks. If it has “been a while” for
you, check out Intimacy After
Cancer (Big Think Media, www.intimacyaftercancer
.com). Authors Sally Kidd, a psychologist who herself has dealt with breast cancer,
and Dana Rowett use both survivors’ stories and expert commentary to help you reconnect with your sexual self.

Lucid Dreaming
Delve Deeper into Lucid Dreaming. For sophisticated dream-induction techniques, check out Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (Ballantine Books) by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. LaBerge, the father of lucid dreaming, is the best possible guide to the dreamworld within.

Organic Living
Get the Gunk Out of Your Water. A simple way to get healthier tap water is to use
a filter. Options abound, from
a standalone pitcher to a unit integrated into the main line. You also have a choice of technologies, including carbon filtration and reverse osmosis.

Look for the Label. Attention food shoppers: Look for the USDA's green-and-white seal
to ensure that what you're getting meets the government's organic standards. For updates and other information on the National Organic Program,
call the USDA at 1-202-720-3252 (DC) or visit www.ams.usda.gov/NOP.

Pet Health
Find a Suitable Vet.
If you’re looking for a veterinarian who employs alternative therapies, look
into the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. The vet finder on their website (www.advma.org; 1-410-569-0795 [MD]) lets you search by state and type of treatment (Chinese herbs, for example); you can also find someone who specializes in birds or exotics—even a vet who makes house calls (who knew?).

Get Your Pets Moving. Becoming a classic couch potato is no better for your pooch or kitty than it is for you. If you don’t have a big yard, take Bowser to the local park for a brisk game of fetch or Frisbee. And stimulate Fluffy’s play instincts with any of the many stick-string-ball toys on the market.

Sexual Health
Make Bedtime Fun Again. If a cold wind’s been a-blowin’ in your bedroom, you need
to take a systemic approach: That means not only adding aphrodisiacs like muira puama (the nickname “potency wood” says it all) but also circulation enhancers such as L-carnitine and CoQ10, stamina aids such as rhodiola and eluethero, mood modulators such as St. John’s wort and traditional energizers such as bee pollen and royal jelly. You go guy!

Shakes
Drink Your Superfruit. While you should always keep your kitchen stocked with a tasty variety of fresh fruit,
the best way to get the power of the superfruits into your daily diet is through whole-food powdered concentrates. Toss with some ice and soymilk into a blender and voila!—you’ve got a great smoothie.

Sinus Troubles
Save Your Sinuses While Traveling. One of air travel's hazards for sinusitis sufferers is breathing dry, stale, germ-laden air for hours at a stretch. Dr. Robert Ivker recommends having a light meal before you leave for the airport (take 100 mg of grape seed extract at least 20 minutes before eating). Right afterwards, he says to take a multivitamin, 2,000 mg of vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin E, 100 mg of alpha lipoic acid, 200 mg of garlic extract and another 100 mg of grape seed. If you eat en route repeat the vitamin C and garlic, and take more grape seed on an empty stomach either during or right after your flight. Finally, follow your first post-trip meal with all the supplements you took just before you left home. Bon voyage!

Skin Protection
Stay in the Shade. You may have to curtail your fun in the sun if you are subject to itchy eruptions, since allergy-prone skin is often sensitive to Old Sol's rays. Shades, a wide-brimmed hat, and long-sleeved and -legged outerwear are recommended; before using sunscreen, check with your practitioner and be very careful to test anything on a small patch of skin first.

Supplements
Be Sure to Get Your Bs. Your personal power plant can’t run efficiently without the vitamin B complex, which assists in the enzymatic reactions that create energy within cells. Stay stoked with Bs by eating a wide variety of whole foods, including organic produce, unprocessed grains and lean animal proteins, and by taking a comprehensive
B supplement.

Weight Loss
Make It Fun. Not wanting to get sick and die before your time may seem like a good enough reason to eschew fattening foods, but that can only take you so far. Instead, fight off that craving for barbecued wings by concentrating on the good stuff that comes with losing weight: more energy, greater well-being, a better sex life...and feeling damn good about that thinner you in the bathroom mirror.