How would you feel if I told you that I would give you $100, give or take $200? For years, this is not unlike what we’ve done with heart-rate training. Measuring exercise intensity using heart rate has suffered from two major problems: Using relatively inaccurate formulas to make specific exercise-intensity recommendations Attaching discrete, seemingly all-or-nothing…
February is American Heart Month—a great time to learn more about behaviors that can keep your heart strong and healthy. It’s also the perfect time to enjoy a heart-centered yoga practice. Yoga philosophy suggests that there are seven major chakras (or energy centers) in the body that affect not only the physical self, but also the…
Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans food writer, photographer and cook who spread the gospel of community by serving bowls of red beans and rice to thousands of people, and who documented the city’s singular Mardi Gras traditions, died there on Sunday. He was 59. Mr. Johnson’s sister Charlotte Aaron said he was photographing a second-line…
It’s odd enough to find yourself traveling by helicopter from one Caribbean island to another for lunch, even if your destination is Nobu Barbuda, an outpost of the famous restaurant plunked down on a semi-deserted beach. It’s odd in a different way to arrive and spot the 81-year-old actor Robert De Niro dressed in a…