Really?: The Claim: Evening Primrose Oil Soothes Eczema

Anahad O’Connor tackles health myths.THE FACTS:It may not exactly be a household name, but evening primrose, a bright yellow plant native to North America, has a large following in the alternative medicine world.The seeds of the plant contain essential fatty acids, which are used to make an oil that has a variety of uses as a dietary supplement and folk remedy. Its most popular...

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Mapping a Route to Fitness

Springtime fitness tip of the day: Go sit at your computer. No, I'm not suggesting you slouch there all day moving nothing but your fingers. But exploring some online resources can help your outdoor cardio exercise, whether you're a walker, runner or cyclist. Basically, these Web sites do for your body what sites like MapQuest and Google Maps do for your car: let you plan, measure and map your fitness "trips." In fact, some of them make use of the...

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Fitness Epiphanies -- and Things That Hold Us Back

It's two weeks into 2007, and chances are you've already broken your new year's resolutions. We know how it goes. Now that Redskins football is over, we recall with regret the number of pigs-in-a-blanket that we ate in a futile but spirited effort to cheer on the team. So we make the same promise to ourselves that we do every year: to start working out. Right. Just as soon as Joe Gibbs leads us to the playoffs. The problem is that a new year's resolution...

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