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Learn how you can live a healthier lifestyle, even when you're behind the bar, with tips from nutritionists, fitness pros, and other wellness experts

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Bartender Nutrition 101

With the normal stresses of bartending, proper nutrition can sometimes become an afterthought.

Lessons taken from agility training can also be applied to everyday work behind the bar.

Quick on Your Feet: Preventing Injury Behind the Bar With Agility Training

Behind the bar, agility is as essential to work as drink recipes, especially when it comes to injury.

Damian Diaz (front), Jodi Mae Calderon (back, kneeling) and other bartenders work out at Fortune Gym in L.A.

Bartender Health Tips from Boxing Professionals

Bartending can make healthy living a challenge. But changes can be made.

Robin Duchesneau displays a young kudzu shoot in Poplarville, MS.

Looking for a Non-Traditional Way to Shake Off What Ails You? Kudzu May Be What You're After

Kudzu, a weed ever-present in the American South, has been used in Chinese medicine for centuries.

Houston bartenders got in fighting shape this past spring.

Late Nights and the Bartender's Dilemma

It's not easy eating right on a bartender's schedule. But it can be done.

Staying Healthy on the Road

Prioritizing your health in an industry where excessive drinking, eating and late nights are the norm is challenging enough. Add travel to the mix, and it’s easy to let healthy habits slide — or abandon them altogether.

"Guilty Pleasure" seminar panelists Zoe Cormier, Iain Griffiths (Trash Tiki), Jeffrey Kluger (TIME) and Claire Smith-Warner (Belvedere).

How Bartenders Can Help Build a Better Drinking Culture

How can bartenders acknowledge alcohol as the drug that it is, yet accomplish some good with it? It starts with "responsible drinking in action."

Two people behind a table in a conference room.

Brains and Booze: The Neurology of Mixology

Neurologist Dr. Max Wiznitzer and his daughter, New York bartender Pamela Wiznitzer, reveal how the brain's chemistry impacts a bartender's work —?from the way they craft drinks to what customers order.

Sugar: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Did Mary Poppins have the wrong idea? Join Claire Smith-Warner as she examines the role of sugar in cocktails.

A set of hands holding a cocktail shaker.

How To Build That Shaker Stamina

Shaking cocktails all night long can be quite the workout —learn how to build endurance using correct form and stretch thoroughly to prevent injuries.

Drink to Your Health: The Art of the Restorative Tonic

Bartenders are using their sensibilities as mixologists to create layered, complex drinks that are as nutrient-rich as they are delicious.

The 2017 Health and Wellness Trends Bartenders Should Know

As people become more conscientious of their health, how can bartenders use health trends to their advantage? We investigate how bartenders can be proactive both in their bartending practice and their personal lives.

The Bartender’s Guide to Taking Care of Your Feet, Part One

Almost every bartender knows the feeling of sore, achey feet after a shift. We spoke with a handful of podiatrists for advice on lessening and preventing pain.

How to Set and Achieve Goals

Before charting out your goals for the year, it's important to take time for introspection. Knowing yourself well is vital to setting goals that can be achieved.