Month: October 2019

October 21, 2019 at 09:15PM by CWC Having a slow cooker is basically like having a private chef. You do the prepping in the morning by putting all the ingredients into the Crock-Pot or Instant Pot, and when you return home after work, there’s a healthy and delicious meal waiting for you—one you hardly remember putting together. Instead of trying to find the energy to cook yourself something after a long day, dinner is served. Vegetarian slow cooker recipes are the easiest way to add more plant-based dishes into your routine. When you load it up with veggies and spices and let those flavors get to know each other throughout the day, you’ll be left with a final product that’s just as healthy as it is satisfying. And these cozy meals are a great place to start. Vegetarian slow cooker recipes that are just as easy as they are healthy Photo: Two Peas & Their Pod 1. Slow cooker black bean tortilla soup Vegetarian tortilla soup? Count me in. This version contains a wide variety of healthy veggies, including onion, bell peppers, black beans, tomatoes, and corn. Photo: Inspiralized 2. Crockpot cauliflower bolognese with zucchini noodles Pro tip: You can make a hearty bolognese sauce using cauliflower. And when you pour it over zucchini noodles, game over. Photo: Gimme Some Oven 3. Lemony lentil soup Loaded with flavor, this lentil soup gets an energizing zest from the addition of lemon for a unique—and a mouth-watering!—twist on the classic. Photo: Jessica

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October 21, 2019 at 08:44PM by CWC I remember the very first time I retired a bra. Purchased in the the tween section of Target, what was once a beautiful neon-pink number with gold stars had degraded into a faded, stretched out shadow of its former self. Even though the garment brought me heaps of discomfort (boo you, underwire), it was hard to say goodbye. The bra had loved me faithfully; now, I had to let go. The circle of (undergarment) life should repeat itself every six to eight months, according to Jessica Pfister, vice president of lingerie brand Le Mystere. “When your bra is worn out, you are not getting the support or shape you need to give your clothes a good foundation to rest on,” she says. In other words, a bra kept for too long ultimately defeats its one, true purpose. So if you’ve been holding onto Old Faithful for quite some time, Pfister says that a few signs indicate that it’s time to recycle the closet staple and move on in life and lingerie. 4 signs that you should replace an old bra, according to a lingerie expert 1. Your cups are bulging or gaping “If it’s bulging, the cup is too small or your straps are too tight,” says Pfister. Gaping, on the other hand, indicates that the cups are too big. 2. The underwire doesn’t lay flat against your chest Pfister says that the underwire in your bra should cup the breast tissue and

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October 21, 2019 at 07:30PM by CWC Actress Jenna Dewan is the first to admit that she has done a lot of out-there things in the name of wellness. “Juice cleanses, colonics, charcoal rinses…I’ve done it all,” she says. Dewan—who announced in September that she’s pregnant—writes about the parts of wellness that actually resonated with her in her new book, Gracefully You: Finding Beauty and Balance in the Everyday. The book is full of tips on how to use everything from mantras to movement to connect with your deeper self and to feel more balanced. Of course part of feeling balanced is eating in a way that makes you feel nourished. For Dewan, this means following the 80/20 diet, an eating plan that’s defined by eating healthy 80 percent of the time and in a more “anything goes” way 20 percent of the time. “I’ve tried a lot of different eating plans, and this is the one that works for me,” Dewan says. Here’s a peek at the plant-forward meals that Jenna Dewan typically eats in a day. Photo: Getty Images/Foxys_forest_manufacture; Graphic: Well+Good Creative Breakfast “Every day, I wake up and make a Glowing Green smoothie, using nutritionist Kimberly Snyder‘s recipe,” Dewan says. “I met Kimberly about seven years ago and have been making these green smoothies pretty much every day since. It’s made with spinach, romaine, celery, apple, and pear, so it’s loaded with really good fiber.” “Every once in a while, instead of the smoothie I’ll have a

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October 21, 2019 at 02:00PM by CWC As far as healthy trend-spotting goes, Whole Foods is pretty up on it. Even with grocery stores getting healthier across the board (a major positive), the organic market is still a leader in the wellness industry. Its aisles continue to be places consumers discover emerging brands that later turn into full-blown popular faves. (A few they started stocking early: Siete Foods, Caulipower, and Siggi’s.) As part of their scouting, Whole Foods has trend spotters (what they call foragers) all over the world, all on the hunt to discover small brands (often with just a small table at the local farmers’ market) with big dreams of landing on their shelves. Every year, the retailer uses this intel—as well as market data and stats—to create their carefully curated wellness trends calling the ingredients and foods that will dominate the health world (and their store shelves) in the coming year. Ready for a peek inside Whole Foods’ crystal ball? Here are some of the trends we are most excited about. Check out this video to see a registered dietitian’s favorite foods to buy at Whole Foods: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4aGeQEf0_I] 1. Regenerative agriculture as a priority Whole Foods recognizes that consumers not only want to support healthy brands, they want to make sure they’re supporting sustainable ones too—a topic Well+Good devoted a recent event to. Regenerative agriculture essentially describes farming practices that restore soil quality, improve local biodiversity, and increase carbon capture to benefit the environment. Whole Foods

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