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Month: October 2018

2019 Health

Does it matter, health-wise, if you run on or hot or iced coffee in the winter?

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October 25, 2018 at 04:00AM As the temperatures start to dip, and we’re forced to spend more time inside, more than a few of us will reach for a warming beverage. Adaptogen-laced hot chocolate? Yes, please. Concentration-boosting peppermint tea? Sign me up! But, without fail, there will always be at least one person in the group (maybe it’s you) who’s apparently immune to the chill and still orders iced coffee—all chilly season long. It could look like the frozen tundra outside, and they’ll still skip along the sidewalk, iced drin in (all likeliness, ungloved) hand. There has to be something unhealthy about this, right? Because gulping down an icy beverage when it’s snowing outside surely can’t be healthy. How could it be? It sounds like subscribing your digestive system to the polar-bear plunge every freaking day. (And those dips are, at best, controversial health-wise.) But, according to certified nutritionist Karin Adoni Ben-David, the preference—though curious to many—is perfectly safe. “Drinking iced coffee during cold days won’t make you sick. And drinking a cup of hot tea or coffee won’t do much to raise your core body temperature in cold weather.” —certified nutritionist Karin Adoni Ben-David “You can have your coffee hot or cold any day of the year,” she says. “Drinking iced coffee during cold days won’t make you sick and won’t contribute to a cold,” she says. “While hot beverages and foods, like tea or soup, are helpful in loosening congestion and soothing a sore throat, cold beverages will not, in

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2019 Health Fashion Yoga

2 yoga moves you can do at your desk to ease neck and back tightness

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October 25, 2018 at 03:28AM Whether you slay away in an office or WFH, repeatedly lug around a 25 pound carry-on (read: purse), or are constantly perusing Instagram, many realities of the modern “get ‘er done” lifestyle can unfortunately lead to neck and back pain. In fact, more dollars are spent treating these ailments than almost any other medical condition, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Typically, these result because of too much time crouched over computers or firing away on hand-held devices which encourage the neck to protrude anteriorly and the shoulders to round forward. “The head weighs to ten to twelve pounds, so this position pulls the neck and back into an uncomfortable forward-jutted position. Overtime, this leads to ‘text neck’ and generalized pain,” says yoga instructor, Francesca Valarezo, who’s leading our next Well+Good Retreat in Miami. Valarezo knows the difficulties firsthand and she’s not alone—roughly 70 percent of people will be afflicted by neck aches at some point in their lives according to research from Harvard Medical Health. And while it’s hard to skip-out on the desk job all together, standing for breaks during the day—or hey, putting in that PTO to join us for a seriously high vibe experience come December—can help. Until then, Valarezo’s got two yoga poses that help stretch things out and, best yet, can be done right from the comfort of your own desk. 1. Diver’s Pose Stretch “A gentle diver’s stretch helps you strengthen and lengthen the muscles in the neck and eventually realign

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