January 28, 2019 Plus, the food is super delicious. Continue Reading… Author Magdalena Wszelaki | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Month: January 2019
5 Probiotic Benefits That Have Nothing To Do With Digestion
January 27, 2019 at 11:00PM Here are five interesting ways your probiotic can be helping you. Continue Reading… Author | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Why Doctors In Canada Are Prescribing Museum Visits For Stress & Chronic Pain
January 27, 2019 at 11:00PM Meet the art Rx. Continue Reading… When you complain to your doctor, chances are they’ll come back to you with medicine or diet and exercise advice. Unless you’re in Montreal, Canada, that is, where a small cohort of docs are now prescribing visits to the local museum. In November, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) teamed up with a group of family doctors to launch a pilot “museum prescription” program that tests how access to visual art can help patients cope with mental and physical illnesses. “We know from the research we’re doing that art—looking at art, making art, and participating in museum culture—has positive effects on people’s lives,” Stephen Legari, the museum’s coordinator of art therapy, tells mindbodygreen of the first-of-its-kind partnership. The MMFA, which welcomes about a million visitors a year, has been studying the healing power of art for two decades now. Today, if you stop by the museum’s Art Hive, you’ll find 12 studio spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds can gather to craft side-by-side. In the galleries, you might catch Legari, a trained art therapist himself, guiding a group of women living with breast cancer, young adults with high-functioning autism, or victims of crime, through the exhibits, armed with questions and prompts meant to help them feel supported, entertained, and less alone. “We want to welcome them, connect them with the artwork in the galleries, and build creative projects together,” he says. “We want visitors to find
Avoiding Plastic Doesn’t Have To Be So Annoying. Here’s How I Do It In The Trash Storm That Is NYC
January 27, 2019 at 09:30PM These four little things are the secret. Continue Reading… Author Faye Lessler | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Weekly Horoscope: The Relationship Conversation You Should Be Having This Sunday
January 27, 2019 at 09:00PM Something’s simmering below the surface—and this Friday, February 1, it could erupt like Mount St. Helens. Continue Reading… Author The AstroTwins | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Couples Who Do THIS Have Better Sex
January 27, 2019 at 08:30PM Let’s talk about body image. Continue Reading… It’s no secret that there’s enjoyment in feeling desired. In fact, a new study just revealed that how much you think your partner loves your body can have a significant effect on your sexual satisfaction—even more than your own appreciation for your body. The study, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, studied 244 women between ages 18 and 30, all of whom were in a committed relationship for three months or longer and sexually active within the last month. (Most of the women were white and straight.) The scientists assessed the participants’ own body appreciation by asking them to rate how much they related to statements like “I respect my body” and “I feel good about my body.” The women were also asked to complete the survey from their partner’s perspective, to assess their perceived view of their partner’s appreciation of their body (i.e., “My partner feels good about my own body”). The researchers also asked questions about the women’s sexual functioning in the past four weeks, which includes how often they felt sexual desire, their level of arousal, lubrication, number of orgasms, sexual satisfaction, and pain during sex. Finally, women also reported their overall relationship satisfaction, including how pleasant, positive, satisfied, and valued they felt. The findings showed the more you think your partner appreciates your body, the better your sex life tends to be—that is, more desire, arousal, lubrication, and orgasms—and the more
This Personality Trait Is More Prone To Disease, Study Says
January 27, 2019 at 08:00PM If you’ve ever been told to keep a positive mantra in your back pocket, now may be the time to revisit it. Thinking positively may have way more impact on our health than we thought. Thanks to a new study, researchers have linked positive personality traits with reduced risk of developing diabetes. On the flipside of this result, they found that negative traits like pessimism or hostility could actually increase your risk of developing the chronic disease which now plagues over 100 million Americans. The study followed about 140,000 women for a whopping 14 years of their life, keeping track of three central personality traits: negativity, optimism, and hostility. It found that women who were ranked higher for their optimistic, glass-half-full outlook had a 12 percent reduced risk of ending up with type 2 diabetes. On the contrary, for more pessimistic women, their risk was 9 percent higher. For hostility, that figure was 17 percent higher. This study is just another example of how much our outlook can actually influence our physical health. Aside from chronic disease like diabetes, optimistic thinking has been associated with increased longevity, better heart health, and lower stress levels. Since these findings were uncovered, researchers are looking toward the future of diabetes treatment that could be based on your specific personality. More work needs to be done in this sphere, but for now, working toward becoming an optimist just got a lot more appealing. A negative outlook could have serious
Treating dating like a takeout order is leaving us hungry for more
January 27, 2019 at 08:30AM by CWC When I was 24, in a classic 24-year-old move, I started hooking up with the Tinder Emperor of my borough. His cyber seduction skills checked every box in your list of dating app clichés: We’re talking shirtless selfies, topless pic requests—things I would scoff at (and then hike to Bushwick to meet up anyway like a damn fool). But what I couldn’t get over is that I was number 84 on his list of conquests. (He had a literal list of every woman he’d been with; he showed me once.) Eighty-four. When his number would flash on my phone, I’d wonder, “Did he scroll through all those names and think, Hmm, I’m in the mood for #84 tonight? Like I’m a McDonald’s order?” Shocker: This tryst ended with a disastrous heartbreak. But I’ve been able to keep that bit of the past behind me. Until, that is, a new dating trend like “cookie jarring”—when a dater keeps one hand in the proverbial cookie jar, making sure to always have someone on reserve in case their main squeeze doesn’t work out—crops up in my feed, and it all comes rushing back. Suddenly, I remember…Online dating is just Seamless for People. Let me put forth a scenario for you: It’s Tuesday night, you’re home from an arduous day of work, and the couch is calling. You figure you should do that whole dinner thing, and maybe even did some healthy meal prep over the weekend. But oh, Chinese food
Why body-inclusivity hero Dana Falsetti is over Instagram
January 27, 2019 at 07:44AM by CWC As a leading voice in the body-inclusivity movement, yoga teacher Dana Falsetti’s @nolatrees posts have been a must-read among the healthy-living Instagram world for years. But not anymore. And it’s not because she’s any less thoughtful, challenging, or influential. It’s because she’s not going to post anymore. Via Instagram Stories, Falsetti told her 316,000 followers that the social media platform is an “abusive relationship” from which she needs to heal. “There has been a lot of trauma. Visible and not. As much as I regularly wish I could, I can’t will trauma not to have its impact.” —Dana Falsetti “I am grieving, realizing my relationship with this community and this work is the most intense one I’ve ever been in and I tie every memory back to this account and how it all began. Through therapy I’ve come to realize it’s been a five-year abusive relationship, even with all it’s given me,” she says. “There has been a lot of trauma. Visible and not. As much as I regularly wish I could, I can’t will trauma not to have its impact. Being in these spaces re-traumatizes me so quickly that my mental health plummets just as fast. I need to heal.” Photo: Cheyenne Gil What’s next for her? She admits that it’s scary to close this door, but feels it’s necessary. “Change is fucking scary. Right now it means accepting that beautiful things don’t have to last to any semblance of permanence to be
Here Are 6 Clear Signs You Actually Love Someone, According To Science
January 27, 2019 at 05:00AM And what to do next. Continue Reading… You’ve probably heard that “love works in mysterious ways”—so, uh, how exactly are you supposed to wade through all that mystery and know if it’s real or not? Social media, movies, and pop culture, in general, will have you believe that love is meant to feel like fireworks and butterflies. You’re supposed to hear music and “see the light.” So, what if you don’t? Does that mean it’s not true love? The short answer is no. Falling in love can mean many different things and it’s felt in many different ways—and that love can evolve over time. Nearly everyone in long-term relationships has doubt and questions at some point. “We don’t stay in that high place all the time,” Linda Carroll, M.S., a licensed marriage and family therapist and life coach, told mbg. “Some days are cloudy, some are stormy, some are gray, and sometimes the sun shines. Relationships are seasonal and cyclical.” But you can rest easy knowing that there are actually a few key signs that will help you figure out if what you’re experiencing is real love or not, even if things aren’t always “perfect”: 1. You feel no pain. You’ve probably heard stories of mothers who instantaneously gain incredible strength to save their children from impending dangers. It turns out there’s science behind the connection between being in love and feeling no pain. One study showed that simply viewing a photograph of your romantic