Child themes are the best way to make modifications to twentyten without editing the original twentyten files. The codex article at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes explains it well.
For the most basic implementation of a child theme to make the modification I described above, make a new directory called live-your-best in your wp-content/themes directory, then in that make a file called style.css with the following content
/*
Theme Name: Live Your Best
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyten
*/
@import url("../twentyten/style.css");
.entry-content {
font-size: 14px;
}
Then go into your appearance panel and select the new theme.