Breathe Better for Your Whole Body

Exhale, taking twice as long as you did to inhale.

Beyond Burnout

What to do when (or ideally, before) stress reaches epic proportions

Reduce-a-What?

Eating a little less of certain foods can do a lot of good

13 THINGS High-Flying Facts About Air Travel

A New DIY Nightmare

Pepitas Pack a Punch

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

We Found a FIX

HELP, HACKS & HOW TO

The Appalachian Apple Hunter

Thousands of varieties of our favorite fruit have nearly died out. One man is trying to bring them back.

THE REUSE KING

If you happen to be sitting on 8,000 lengths of blue rope or a few dozen 26-foot-long guardrails, this guy wants to talk

22 RIVERS across 22 STATES in 22 MONTHS

A lone canoeist crosses America in search of what binds us together

SUPERNATURAL VISITORS

Readers share their not-so-scary ghost stories

A Soldier's Ghost Story

The World War II veteran had a mysterious visitor who showed up at his bedside with a clear, comforting message

THE NICEST PLACES IN AMERICA

For the sixth year in a row, Reader's Digest spotlights places where people are kind, resilient, and always striving to make their communities better.

A Gem of a Proposal

CHRISTIAN LIDEN WAS in eighth grade when he hatched a grandiose plan to create a personalized engagement ring for his future fiancée. Never mind that he didn't have a girlfriend. If a natural diamond could take billions of years to form, he figured he could be patient.

Learn a Language as an Adult

Contrary to conventional thinking, it isn't too late

Bubble Tea Blows Up

WHEN BUBBLE TEA was first introduced to the United States about 30 years ago, you could get it only in mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatown and Koreatown. Now it's popping up in cafés around the country; Baskin-Robbins even offered a version this spring and summer.

A Celebration of 100th Birthdays

A Celebration of 100th Birthdays

MIND OVER MIGRAINE

A German study of migraine sufferers found that weekly sessions of mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy reduced the frequency of their headaches by 40 percent.

My Southern Accent, Lost and Found

For years, I denied this part of myself, until I realized what I was missing

THE GREAT 9/11 MARITIME RESCUE

We've read about so many heroes of that fateful day, yet somehow this mission-the largest of its kind in history-remains largely unknown

THE PLACEBO CURE

WHY DOCTORS ARE PRESCRIBING SUGAR PILLS INSTEAD OF THE REAL THING

The ENDURING DELIGHT of the DICTIONARY

Every unknown word is a solvable mystery

What I'm Currently Reading

Classics? Self-help books? Not for this Reader's Digest editor.

SO THAT'S WHY WE SAY THAT

Fun facts about the language that's been confounding speakers for centuries: English

A Peek at New Eye Science

Smart contact lenses may do far more than correct vision.

A Dose of Mental Health

Many people are microdosing, but scientists are split over whether the benefits of taking small amounts of psychedelic drugs are a placebo effect or something more

13 Things Home Sweet Vacation Home

We found a fix

Advice to the Young

One of the world's most celebrated writers has much to share—though she sometimes wonders whether she should keep her thoughts to herself

Quincy the Show Goat

BEST PET PALS

THE BEST SANDWICH IN EVERY STATE

We teamed up with Taste of Home and our collective readers to find the 50 greatest ways to fill two slices of bread (or just one, or a bun, or a biscuit...)

WORLD OF MEDICINE

THE HEALTHY NEWS