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2019 Health

This 1-minute yogic technique makes you instantly more radiant

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December 22, 2018 at 03:30AM Long drives, plane travel, and general holiday goings-on can be a *lot* for your skin and energy levels to handle. Fortunately, getting in touch with your inner—and outer—glow takes only a minute and doesn’t cost a penny. Here, Kundalini teacher Guru Jagat shares two go-anywhere, do-anywhere techniques to boost your brightness. 1-minute holiday beauty practice One of the things I love about the holidays is that even ordinary days feel special. The holidays are the time to dress up and put your best face forward. You can up the luminosity of your skin, balance your body, and activate that feel-good glow with this amazingly powerful micro-technique from Kundalini yoga. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU9iJmQlHug] 1-minute holiday radiance secret Tinsel decks the halls, lights galore bedazzle the streets and shimmering clothes are the order of the day. Tis the season for the shiniest you. I fell in love with this 1-minute practice form Kundalini yoga when I experienced how effective it was at activating undeniable magnetism.  The posture this exercise uses is called celibate pose because, when you sit in it, you create the same level of electric glow as the eternal yogis of yore without their inconvenient vow! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweBjFRTQMY] Guru Jagat is the founder of RA MA Institute for Applied Yogic Science and Technology, a Kundalini yoga school with locations in Venice, CA; Mallorca, Spain; and New York City, and the author of the best-selling book Invincible Living: The Power of Yoga, The Energy of Breath, and Other

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2019 Health Vegetarians

These are the top 10 healthy eating tips we learned in 2018

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December 22, 2018 at 03:00AM One of the benefits of interviewing wellness experts for a living and doing deep dives into questions that keep us up at night (Are potatoes healthy? Can you OD on adaptogens?) is that you learn a lot about healthy eating. It seems like a new food trend pops up every week—I think we can all agree that 2018 was the year CBD officially went mainstream—and it can be hard to know which ones are worth pursing and what’s more hype than healthy. MDs, dietitians, nutritionists, and health coaches help cut through the noise and tune into what’s really important. To that end, compiled here are the most surprising, educational, and behavior-changing eatings tips Team Well+Good learned this year. Keep reading and prepare for your mind to be blown—and for your meal-prep routine to get a New Year’s makeover. Photo: Getty Images/Klaus-Vedfelt 1. Eating moldy bread is nothing to freak out over. Unlike those apples in your crisper that take weeks to go bad, bread has a relatively short shelf life. If you don’t eat it in time, you’re bound to see fuzzy green spots starting to sprout up—a sure sign to toss the loaf. But what if you bite into your sandwich before you see it? Terrifying, right? Before you freak out—don’t. Turns out, a little bit of mold just one time isn’t going to do much damage. The image of biting into a moldy slice, though? Let’s be honest, you may never get that

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2019 Health Fashion

These $22 fuzzy slippers are single-handedly combatting my winter blues

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December 22, 2018 at 02:12AM Once the temperature starts to plummet, you won’t see me trying to figure out if that dress I bought in August could still work with a pair of thigh-high boots and a jacket. Nope. I abandon all breezy fabrics and immediately start pulling out my collection of oversized sweaters, flannel pajamas (yeah, I have multiple pairs), scarves, and pom-pom hats. “Cozy” is the watchword, my friends. And while this California expat has successfully figured out how to keep nearly every body part warm during an East Coast winter, there is always one place that has consistently stayed frozen: my feet. I don’t know if this is just because I’m tall and thus have poor circulation or what, but my feet are basically always cold. My boyfriend calls them “witch feet.” I wear socks to bed even in the summer, that’s how cold they are all the time. But I have officially solved my “witch feet” problem—well, while I’m indoors, at least—thanks to my impulse purchase of Muji’s fuzzy slipper boots. They’re “so ugly, they’re cute,” cost $22, and I’m obsessed with them. These bad boys are the perfect kind of slipper. They’re fuzzy on the outside and the inside thanks to the boa fleece fabric, keeping my feet toasty warm while making it look like my legs end in teddy bear paws. (The dream!) The softly padded sole gives your feet a bit of extra comfort and insulation from potentially cold floors. And they come up

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2019 Health

Elite athletes have super-low resting heart rates, but that doesn’t mean you need to shoot for 40 BPM

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December 21, 2018 at 11:48AM We’d heard that a low resting heart rate is one of the health markers shared by many of the world’s most elite athletes; but, when FitBit released data earlier this week suggesting that the folks of Bend, Oregon, have the lowest BPMs in the United States, our office started to wonder: What exactly does the digit mean for the the rest of us? Michael Barber, MD, PhD, a cardiologist at Colorado’s Strata Integrative Wellness Spa, says that while a normal resting heart rate falls between 60 and 100 beats per minute, a resting heart rate below 60 beats per minute (bradycardia) is perfectly healthy for some individuals, if not necessarily an indicator of exceptional health. “The mere presence of a low resting heart rate in the absence of any other additional information really says very little about a person or person’s overall state of health,” says the doctor. Your heart health and the number of times it beats per minute really depend on a cocktail of factors, including age (your rate will naturally decrease as you grow older), certain medications, thyroid health, hormonal abnormalities, and too many others to name, he says. “In general, unless a person is symptomatic (weakness, fatigue, low energy level, lightheadedness, dizziness, near passing out or passing out, decreased physical performance, etc.), heart rates even lower than 40 BPM may be normal for that individual,” says Dr. Barber. Of course, you’d need to consult with a specialist to know exactly what your specific heart

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