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2019 Health City

We’ve Been Taught the Outdoors is Skin-Care Enemy Number One—Here’s Why That’s Not Quite True

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April 16, 2019 at 06:30PM by CWC Have you ever wondered why a day at the beach leaves you with glowing skin not even an expensive facial could replicate? And no, we’re not talking about getting a tan (which is really a sign of damage)—that time spent beachside is doing undercover work toward actually boosting your skin’s health. The secret to keeping your new-found radiance year round (without moving to a tropical island) is simple: All you have to do is go outside more. *Cue shocked faces.* We know, we know—the cardinal rule of healthy skin is to avoid exposure to UV rays, pollution, and other outdoor elements that can accelerate aging, dark spots, and all that other skin stuff we stress over. But by staying indoors we’re missing out on a major portion of the skin-health equation: bacteria. By staying indoors we’re missing out on a major portion of the skin-health equation: bacteria. “Culturally, we have seen so many habits built around fear tactics,” says Jasmina Aganovic, president at Mother Dirt—a skin-care line that promotes balance on the skin by integrating live bacteria into its products. “While an excess of sun and polluted air certainly is not great for us, the manifestation of this rhetoric into products that are sold to us is often disproportionate to the reality.”  In short, the outdoors isn’t as bad for our skin as we’ve been made to think. Aganovic credits our fear of harmful bacteria with motivating us to eradicate all bacteria, which

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2019 Health Beauty Relaxation

The *exact* steps to giving yourself a mini-workout facial massage

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April 16, 2019 at 06:30PM by CWC What if we told you your skin-care routine was missing one crucial step—and that said step was basically a beauty-boosting mini workout for your face? Okay, so maybe a facial massage doesn’t have quite the same muscle-strengthening results of your favorite HIIT class, but it does tap into the same feel-good benefits—which is why beauty and style maven Grace Atwood is obsessed with the technique as a part of her nightly routine. “Taking that extra 10 minutes for yourself before bed to double cleanse, use serum, use moisturizer, and maybe do a little bit of facial massage, it makes you feel better,” she says. “There’s incredible amounts of research for all the amazing things pressure-point massage can do for your skin and your body.” The buzzed-about benefits? Helping your products penetrate better, increasing blood flow, and reducing fluid build-up (AKA puffiness). To clue you in on how to incorporate the practice into your own self-care arsenal, we teamed up with Reebok UNLOCKED (the just-launched wellness rewards program that hooks you up with beauty bonuses curated by Well+Good, among other perks) and asked Atwood to share the benefits and instructions for a pressure-point facial massage. Scroll down for your step-by-step guide to facial massage, straight from an in-the-know beauty blogger. https://content.jwplatform.com/players/2RNNMnAH-dUl83MEz.js 1. Start with facial oil The key to a spa-level massage is making sure your face is oiled up first, which is why it’s ideal to add the practice as the last step to

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2019 Health Fashion Keto Vegetarians

Make room for 18 healthy foods you should always buy at Costco

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April 16, 2019 at 04:00PM by CWC Costco is an amusement park for adults. Sky-high shelves stacked with anything and everything you could ever want in life—to call it magical would be an understatement. The food section in particular is where I like to spend my time pushing around that oversized shopping cart, but you can shop online for plenty of healthy foods at Cosco. Unlike a typical grocery store, Costco allows you to get everything in bulk. Many of the products are organic and non-GMO and countless options focus on specific dietary needs, with products catered to those who are gluten-free, vegan, and low-carb and keto. This includes huge cases of spaghetti squash, bags of cauliflower rice almost too heavy to carry, and avocados that last twice as long. Costco also has essentials on hand for a fraction of the cost. Instead of spending $40 on a tiny container of high-quality Japanese matcha for your lattes, you can get a bag quadruple the size. Make room in the pantry for huge containers of kosher ground turmeric or organic plant-based protein powders loaded. If you want to go on a shopping spree without even having to leave your home, you’re in luck. These are some of the best food deals you can score right this second. Healthy food finds to shop at Costco Buy Now Kirkland Signature Organic Almond Beverage, 6-count $8.99 Buy Now Quaker Oats Old Fashioned Oatmeal, 2-count $9.49 Buy Now Kirkland Signature Organic Quinoa, 4.5 lbs $9.99

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2019 Health

Dear therapist, why do I swoon at PDA in rom-coms but judge it (and hate it) on social media?

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April 16, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC Last week our collective gag reflexes were put to the test when in an unprovoked public social media display of affection, Justin Bieber shared a love poem he wrote for his wife, Hailey. And, uh, let’s just say that Biebs almost certainly has no future as a poet laureate. I mean, the thing starts with a misspelling of “abyss” and snowballs from there. Sure, there are definitely worse things than “publicly honoring” your partner, like global warming or the line at Trader Joe’s after 5 p.m. on a weekday. But when someone gets gooey about their relationship on social media like that, even when other mediums (ahem, rom-coms) celebrate the grand gesture, I still get a rough case of the icks—and I’m not the only eye-roller scrolling the ‘gram. Cringing at a gushing Instagram poem or at a viral proposal video or at someone who @s their S.O. in their Twitter bio is a common experience, and generally more of a reflection on who we, the bystanders, are rather than who the people in the relationship are. “There can be a very fine line between what we find exciting and romantic, and what we just find intrusive,” says licensed clinical psychologist Aimee Daramus, PsyD. “You might have experienced this with people asking you out, too. Somebody genuinely thinks they‘re being charming, but for you, it‘s too much too fast. So part of it has to do with boundaries. A lot of us might

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