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'Trainwreck' is R-rated riot by Apatow, Schumer 07/17/2015 03:10am • WASHINGTON — What happens when you mix Judd Apatow's eye with Amy Schumer's script? You get the most hilarious and heartwarming R-rated comedy since Apatow's debut "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005). While that film launched countless careers — Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Paul R 8 Stocks Joining Netflix in Sky-High Territory 07/16/2015 08:00pm • And now, airing exclusively on Netflix: The drama of a company with a skyrocketing stock price, but facing split opinion about whether it's an investment gamble going forward. More accurately, it's a story exclusively about Netflix stock (ticker: NFLX), which is trading at all-time highs after the How to Transition from Restrained to Retrained Eating 07/16/2015 08:00pm • In my private practice, I have several clients who live in the world of dietary restraint. "Can't," "shouldn't" and "never" are some of the words that pepper their eating vocabulary. When I ask why they don't eat certain foods, it's not because of food allergies or intolerances but more an extreme Celebration at The Wharf as digging wraps up 07/16/2015 05:18pm • WASHINGTON — The District's largest active economic development project has finished up excavation work, a milestone celebrated with a "bottoming-out" ceremony on Thursday. The Wharf project is expected to transform the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood and will develop a full mile of shoreline Is Your Doctor Judging You? 07/15/2015 08:00pm • The first time Dawn Jett met with a cardiologist in Las Vegas, the doctor didn't introduce himself, shake her hand or review her files. Instead, he looked at her and asked, "Why are you fat?" remembers Jett, 39, who made the appointment to check on her heart murmur, which she has had since childhood Up in Arms -- and Baring Them 07/15/2015 08:00pm • I'd just finished viewing Serena Williams' triumph at Wimbledon when I spotted a short USA Today piece that caught my eye. "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling had just tweeted her joy and support of Serena's sixth Wimbledon title noting, "I love her. What an athlete. What a role model. What a woman." How to trim your caffeine costs 07/15/2015 11:30am • Fluctuating coffee prices can put caffeine addicts on edge. Starbucks recently increased prices on select coffee drinks, citing higher labor and rent costs. Retail experts suggest that coffee lovers will continue buying their favorite drinks. According to the 2014 National Coffee Association's Annua Diet and Lifestyle Advice for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 07/14/2015 08:00pm • What's in a name?Despite its name, polycystic ovary syndrome involves more than cysts. The most common hormonal disorder among women also causes infertility due to a lack of ovulation; increased hair growth on the face, chest, stomach, back, thumbs or toes; acne or oily skin; dandruff; weight gain; How to Stop the Summer Sabotage 07/14/2015 08:00pm • You spent all spring gearing up for summer, swearing to be bathing suit-ready. And you were! And then Memorial Day hit and it's been downhill ever since. Sound familiar? We could all come up with a ton of excuses for being off the healthy eating path, but that won't get us anywhere. Instead, we need When Your Child Has Obesity: How to Tackle Weight Loss as a Family 07/14/2015 08:00pm • Diet is a four-letter cuss word in Traci Baker's house. She and her son Mason Baker have made it a rule to stay away from words that give healthy choices a bad connotation. "It's an everyday battle for us," says the president of Bariatric Life Coach Association LLC, referencing her lifelong struggle Fall in Love With Stone Fruit Right Now 07/13/2015 08:00pm • I have a challenge for you this summer. Go to your closest farmers market and pick up a perfect, ripe peach. Then take it home, bite in and let the juice run down your chin. I promise you, it will make your day. Right now, across the country, local farmers markets are offering a bounty of ripe, del Portfolio Analysis: a Hyper-Aggressive $1.29 Million Portfolio With Holes 07/13/2015 08:00pm • It's commonly and incorrectly presumed that people with large investment portfolios are smart investors. But as counterintuitive as it may sound, this false presumption is simply not true. How do I know? Because I've analyzed and graded many multimillion dollar investment portfolios ($27 million i When Active Fund Management Makes Sense for Investors 07/12/2015 08:00pm • The debate between active and passive management may never be settled, particularly in the media. Plenty of investors, advisors and academics hold strong views on either side. But there are some who believe that a combination of active and passive management styles is in investors' best interest. The Digestibility Dilemma 07/12/2015 08:00pm • Should the food we eat be digestible? It seems like a simple question with an obvious answer. The purpose of food is to nourish our bodies with essential macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein and fat) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), and we can only access the nutrients in food if we a Should You Get the Birth Control Implant? 07/12/2015 08:00pm • Quita Christison intended to get an intrauterine device, or IUD. The 26-year-old had gone off her birth control pills and heard IUDs -- which are inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy for up to 10 years -- revered by her graduate school professors, who were experts in women's health and had