Month: October 2019

October 15, 2019 at 04:30AM by CWC https://content.jwplatform.com/players/65hNlGKC-AjgxWzQ7.js Sustainability might be the biggest buzzword in the foodie space right now, but have you stopped to think about what it means in a practical sense, or better yet, what it should look like in your own life? To break it down for you, we tackled the topic at our Well+Good TALK on The Next Gen of Food Sustainability, where health & wellness strategy and communications manager at Ocean Spray Audrey Perkins, MS, MPH, Local Roots founder Wen-Jay Ying, and chef and owner of Charley St Dan Churchill (all of whom practice what they preach by connecting farmers to consumers) discussed how sustainability can be applied in people’s IRL lives. If you’re reading this article, you’re already on the right track. “Sustainability to me means thinking about our relationship to the land and our community, and how we can care for both those players in a healthy and regenerative way,” Ying says. How you actually do that will look different for everyone, but the experts agree that getting involved in CSAs (community-supported agriculture), opting for sustainable brands like Ocean Spray (which has committed to sustainably growing all its cranberries by 2020), and getting creative with uses for your food waste are all great places to start. “Ocean Spray is a farmer-owned cooperative, allowing us to be sustainable across our entire business in the way we grow our berries (regenerative agriculture), the way we make our food (sustainable operations), and the way we

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October 15, 2019 at 01:00AM by CWC Brain health—it’s not exactly sexy, but it’s basically the boss when it comes to your overall health. After all, without a healthy brain, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy the activities you love the most, whether it be a solo run, a competitive trivia game with friends, or rolling-on-the-floor giggles with your little one. Having a healthy mind is crucial, which is why you’ll want to listen up as Ajeet Sodhi, MD, a neurologist and the director of neurocritical care at the California Institute of Neuroscience, shares the habits and activities he does to promote and improve brain function every single day. It’s advice you—and your brain—simply can’t miss. 1. Regularly exercise your mind Just like the rest of your body, Dr. Sodhi says keeping your brain active and engaged is key to optimal brain health. “My brain is busy all the time,” he says. And no, he doesn’t mean thinking about work. “I love puzzles and doing the crossword or Sudoku, as well as reading the paper and challenging my brain to learn and do new and different things constantly.” And the benefits have been proven: In a recent study conducted by the University of Exeter, researchers found people who regularly completed word puzzles were found to have a brain that clocked in 10 years younger than their actual age. If puzzles aren’t really your thing, don’t sweat—learning new skills or languages, regularly reading, and otherwise engaging your brain in different ways

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October 14, 2019 at 11:00PM by CWC Never stay less than a year at any job is one of those golden rules of résumés, right up there with having no unexplained employment gaps or wild changes in industry. So, what’s a hardworking professional to do when they gave it the old college try, but know their new job isn’t right for them? In this week’s Good@Work column, career expert Amy Odell—whom you may know as the former editor of Cosmopolitan.com and founding blogger of New York magazine’s The Cut—explains why a short stint is only part of the picture. Question: I recently left my “comfortable” job and started a new one. I’m now six months in and realizing I completely regret leaving my old gig. I know I’m unhappy and have given it a decent amount of time and effort, yet nothing seems to change. I want to leave but I’m worried what other companies (and friends/family) might think if I leave too soon! How bad is it really to jump around jobs too much? Will potential hiring managers see it as a red flag?? My parents have been at the same company their entire career so I’m worried about not living up to those expectations! Answer: It sounds like your two big concerns about leaving are what your parents will think and what people who might hire you in the future will think. But this is your life and your career and the thoughts and feelings you should be most concerned

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October 14, 2019 at 10:30PM by CWC Let’s take a time machine back to early 2015 when the blue and black dress (or was it white and gold?) took the internet by storm. Twitter users quickly pinned the difference in perception to the commonly held belief to that each of us leans toward being right-brained (creative and emotional) or left-brained (analytical and rational). Now that the goddess Lizzo has recirculated a sneaker with similar color-shifting trickery, the mystery has returned to cyberspace once more. This time, Matt Johnson, PhD, a professor of neuroscience and founder of neuromarketing blog PopNeuro, wants you to know the cold, hard facts. Whether you see the shoe as green and grey or pink and white has nothing to do with being “left-brained or right-brained.” And, by extension, says zero about how artsy, intellectual, or analytical you are. “There’s a lot of talk about people being right-brained or left-brained,” says Dr. Johnson. “To a neuroscientist, this is second only to ‘we use only 10 percent‘ as the most frustrating colloquial belief about the brain.” The idea of learning something about your personality from a widespread meme is tempting—no argument there. But, according to Dr. Johnson, it’s nothing short of fantasy.   View this post on Instagram   I SEE GREY & TEAL BUT MY WHOLE TEAM SEES PINK & WHITE HELP A post shared by Lizzo (@lizzobeeating) on Oct 13, 2019 at 2:15pm PDT //www.instagram.com/embed.js “There’s no evidence that certain people use one hemisphere more than

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October 14, 2019 at 10:00PM by CWC Pop-culture imagery has fed me a ton of lies over the years about how sex looks. (Like, why is everyone on TV so okay with breaking lamps and running into walls in the heat of the moment?) The most enduring and wildly incorrect one, though, is that if you’re a woman having penetrative sex, after three thrusts, max, you’ll orgasm. The boils my blood because in reality, fewer than 20 percent of women can orgasm from penetration alone. Welcome to the orgasm gap! Typically, the concept points to how during the sexual encounters of heterosexual men and women, 65 percent of women report reaching orgasm versus 95 percent of men, according to a 2017 study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. But, since that’s based on the sexual encounter of penetrative sex, we need to widen our understanding of what constitutes sex in the first place and then make those practices the norm. Because while that low statistic isn’t the most confidence boosting, other research has found that only about 5 percent of women report never being about to climax ever. “The main contributing factor to the orgasm gap is that for most women, penetration alone is not the primary source of pleasure,” says Shannon Chavez, PsyD, licensed sex therapist. “Society contributes to this problem by defining ‘sex’ as ‘penetration.’” It’s worth noting that experts say people with vulvas who are in non-heteronormative relationships tend to have more orgasms, and one reason for this is

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