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Vegetarians Your Regeneration

5 foods with vitamin C to help you fight cold season

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October 06, 2019 at 02:00PM by CWC When smeared on topically, vitamin C gives your complexion a dewy glow. Research suggests that the antioxidant can work a similar magic on your immune system. Eating an orange, or another piece of produce with vitamin C, won’t necessarily be a “fix” for a case of the common cold. But hey—desperate times call for desperate measures (and all the oranges you can eat). According to Harvard Health Publishing, the most compelling case for using foods with vitamin C to fight colds stemmed from research published back in 2013. Twenty-nine randomized trials with over 11,000 participants found that particularly active people (like athletes, soldiers, and marathon runners) who took 200 or more milligrams of vitamin C each day were half as likely to come down with a cold. Moderately athletic people who took the same amount didn’t receive the same benefits, but the antioxidant did appear to shorten the length of their colds. Eating all the foods with vitamin C shouldn’t be your only line of defense against the germy months ahead. During cold season, you can certainly up the 65 to 90 milligram daily recommendation to 200, but make sure you’re combatting sickness with exercise, a holistically healthy diet, and all the sleep you can get. Now that everything’s on the table, here are the foods rich in vitamin C to munch on all year round. 5 foods with vitamin C to help fight cold season 1. Citrus As fans of Emergen-C have

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Vegetarians Your Regeneration

The longest-living people in the world have these 9 things in common

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October 06, 2019 at 12:00AM by CWC In the US, the average life expectancy is 78 years. But there are a few places in the world—specifically Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Icaria, Greece—where living to be over 100 isn’t uncommon at all. In these regions, known as Blue Zones, the life expectancy isn’t just higher; centenarians are generally also healthy, their minds and bodies still working well. National Geographic journalist Dan Buettner spent years studying each culture, pinpointing the exact reasons why they thrived before publishing his findings in the best selling book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. Buettner found that despite the geographical differences, people living in the Blue Zones all had nine key lifestyle habits in common, which he named the “Power 9.” Here, each pillar is explained, with input from doctors about why it’s so crucially connected to health and longevity. Keep reading for the complete intel, including how to apply the pillars to your own life. 1. Move naturally Buettner found that in all the Blue Zones communities, movement was a regular part of daily life for the residents. The Longevity Plan author John Day, MD saw this first-hand as well when he spent a year living in remote China. Even in their advanced age, he saw centenarians working in the fields and throughout the village. Of course, here in the States, our jobs are a lot more sedentary. But Dr. Day still says we

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Your Regeneration

A product formulator says that this is the best place to save money in your beauty routine

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October 05, 2019 at 10:00PM by CWC We hear from facialists and dermatologists somewhat regularly (every single day, if you’re me), but it’s not often that we get to tap the brains of the actual people in the lab formulating the beauty products that we’re using. Recently, when I got that beyond-exciting opportunity (I’m a beauty geek, okay?), I had to ask: Out of all the personal care products out there on the shelves, which of them do we have expert-backed permission to buy on the cheap? Perry Romanowski, a cosmetic chemist and founder of Chemist’s Corner, says to save your money on shampoo. “Skip expensive shampoos,” he tells me. “If you are going to use a post-shampoo conditioner, then the shampoo you use doesn’t matter much.” This is news to me, especially as someone who gets googly-eyed browsing hair products. It’s really easy to want to get those fancy-looking shampoos that promise to thicken and detox and give you good hair days on repeat, but product formulators say cheap ones are just as good at doing their hair-cleansing job. “Brands like Pantene, Garnier Fructis, and Tresemmé are good shampoos and relatively inexpensive,” says Romanowski. “They would be fine to use alone because they contain moisturizing ingredients and are often two-in-one shampoos without advertising that they are.” Victoria Fu, cosmetic chemist and co-founder of Chemist Confessions, agrees. “Considering hair isn’t alive, we actually don’t have too many concerns about shampoo,” she tells me. “We’re almost certain most shampoo products are able

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Your Regeneration

What your go-to confidence coat says about you

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October 05, 2019 at 08:00PM by CWC With the arrival of autumn, half of the women in my office started wearing plaid blazers… so I started wearing a plaid blazer. It isn’t that it’s a cute look—I’m a tiny-headed waif so I look full David Byrne—so much as it’s a power blazer. It makes me feel confident, in control, studious, and like I can definitely front a prolific new wave band. It’s why; selecting the right outerwear at the beginning of those cold months is so important; since you wear it every day, it helps determine what kind of person you want to be. Call it a confidence coat. Believe it or not, there is something a bit psychological to this. Ever hear of enclothed cognition? Research tends to show that the clothes we wear influence us to be whatever they mean symbolically. In the OG study on enclothed cognition, in fact, wearing a lab coat helped improve participant’s attentiveness versus not wearing a lab coat. That means they felt more empowered when a coat transformed them into Dr. Somebody. Using this line of thinking, whatever your chosen autumnal armor is empowers you to be that person. Or it should. Hopefully. Kind of. Because you’re curious, I broke down what your confidence coat says about the person you want to be this season. Denim Jacket You’re carefree, fun, laid-back, and probably look great without a trace of make-up. Something about rocking a jean jacket as your go-to feels super all-American, and you rock that effortless

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Your Regeneration

The 3 most important things to keep in mind when dealing with under-the-skin breakouts

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October 05, 2019 at 06:00PM by CWC Out of all the breakouts that I get, closed comedones make me especially angry. They’re like ghosts—you can kind of feel that they’re there, but it’s really hard to figure out how to get rid of them. (You feel me on this?) That’s because closed comedones, unlike all the other types of acne we so amazingly have in this world, are not fully exposed on the surface of your skin yet. They’re not quite there, but you can definitely still feel them brewing… it’s as if they’re haunting you. “A closed comedone, AKA a whitehead, is an accumulation of dead skin cells trapped within a pore,” explains Loretta Ciraldo, MD, FAAD, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Dr. Loretta Skin Care. “It’s covered with a layer of skin at the top, which is compared to an open comedone, or blackhead, where there’s no cover of skin and we see the black buildup of dead cells.” Because its head isn’t present on your skin, it’s more difficult to treat topically. “Since it has a covering of skin, products don’t readily penetrate into it as they do open comedones,” says Dr. Ciraldo. “Even red pimples, because they’re inflamed, tend to have blood vessels around them that more readily absorb topical acne products.” Great! That’s not to say there’s no hope in nudging pesky closed comedones into the end of their life cycle, though. For one thing, retinol can help (of course it does). “Retinoid creams can help

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