Welcome to week one of our series on yoga, kicking it off with the all-important core.

When it comes to the core, in yoga, it's much more than the appearance of rock-solid abs. The core of our body is just that - our center. In yoga, we are encouraged to move from our core, a place of strength and stability and centeredness, where our self empowerment resides on more than simply a physical level. All those yogis in seemingly impossible postures with only their hands on the ground - maybe even just one hand - they have one thing in common: A powerful core that they are deeply connected to. 

Argan oil comes from the Argan tree grown almost exclusively in Morocco, making it a delicacy among skincare. What's truly amazing about this nut and its byproduct of an illustrious oil goes far beyond its anti-aging, skin rejuvenating effects.

Canned fruits and vegetables have long been a staple of the American kitchen, but there is something far more devious inside than high levels of sodium or even the artificial preservatives that come along with easy preparation. 

A good egg salad combines the creamy texture of boiled eggs with chunky, crunchy bits of veggies and sets it all off with a tangy punch. This recipe for Organic Egg Salad puts a delicious twist on an old favorite and fits the bill but won't break the bank.

Classic box-shaped dresser drawers reclaimed from a dresser on the curb bound for the dump or your own worn out dresser work perfectly as planters. As a repurposing junkie I adore the idea of reusing well-loved (i.e. worn out) furniture for new purposes in the garden. 

Alongside the usual terracotta and clay containers used to hold plants, repurposed old dresser drawers can add diversity to a deck or backyard. Picture them filled with soil and brimming with your favorite flowers or homegrown vegetables.

Before you get planting, check out these tips to make your dresser drawer container garden a success.

Helping out around the house is a normal part of being in a family. And for preschoolers, getting to help like the grown-ups do can seem as wonderful as a trip to the toy store. Unfortunately, what's tough for most parents is finding stuff that a preschooler can do without creating a bigger mess or requiring constant help.

Here are fifteen ways you can let your preschooler get involved in doing regular chores. Remember, you'll need to do a little initial training; show and explain, in simple terms, how to do a chore several times, and be available to help. Your preschooler will catch on quickly. Be sure to give lots of praise when they do it all be themselves.

Alas, we’re learning more about our foods—ingredient by ingredient—and sometimes what we discover isn’t pretty. Sometimes it isn’t even clear. Such is the case with peanut butter and the carcinogen aflatoxin. This cancer-causing chemical is produced by naturally-occurring fungus in the soil, where foods like peanuts are grown. Peanuts, unlike hard-shelled nuts, are encased in a rather soft, porous shell, which allows for contaminants like the fungus to take hold. Is peanut butter carcinogenic? Read on.

It’s so easy to let a bedroom turn chaotic, tossing your clothes around as you slip into PJs. As the room of the home where we spend little of our conscious time, the bedroom often gets placed last on that never-ending organizing to-do list. And it never seems to move up on the list. Instead, the bedroom becomes a catch-all for everything you didn’t know where to put in the rest of the house.

The lean, long frankfurter is ingrained in the American imagination right up there with apple pie and baseball. A regular at sports stadiums, ballparks and street corners around the nation,  you can buy them wrapped in bacon in Los Angeles, stuffed with cream cheese in Seattle or served with barbeque sauce and cole slaw in the South – regional twists on the wiener-and-bun combo. And they are gobbled up by the dozens by men, women and children alike!

Even if – every person in America knows what traditional hot dogs are made of (say it with me): lips and a**holes.

It’s a beautiful spring day: a crisp breeze blows gently through sun-kissed leaves on recently budding trees in a refreshed, lime green landscape. You’re wearing your airy Sunday sundress, listening to lazy jazz croon out of iTunes, while kicking back on the front porch. Few other things could complete this long-awaited day... except for, maybe, a chilled, spiked cocktail.

Luckily for you, those blossoming herbs on your windowsill are all you’ll need to shake up a seasonal spring cocktail in just seconds. Here are 5 herbed spring cocktail recipes we love. 

Green garlic - sometimes called spring garlic or baby garlic - may be a rarity at grocery stores, but has gained popularity among the farm-to-table cognoscenti. All it is, is young garlic which is harvested before the cloves have begun to mature. What results is a vegetable that resembles a scallion, with a deep green stalk and a pale white bulb - yet the flavor is that of mild garlic. Come spring, keep an eye out at your local farmers market. Once you discover green garlic, you'll probably be inclined to grow this veggie at home - relatively easy to do.