January 16, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC Broccoli isn’t trendy like kale or cauliflower and it can’t be zoodled like zucchini. You can steam it or eat it raw, of course, but that’s kind of boring. And kids hate it almost as much as Brussells sprouts. But—hold up. The humble little green tree is one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, which means you should seriously consider adding a few broccoli recipes to your repertoire. “Just one cup of broccoli is an excellent source of folate, vitamins A, C, and K, a good source of riboflavin, vitamins B6 and E, and also delivers some iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium,” says owner of Whole Green Wellness Taylor Wolfram, RDN. Studies suggest that broccoli’s nutritional makeup helps with hormonal balance, keeps your immune system strong, reduces the risk of breast cancer, and reduces inflammation. You hear that, bok choy? Broccoli is coming for you. So, yeah—it’s not as sexy as celery, but #BringBackBroccoli! Here to share five recipes that prove broccoli is an exciting choice worthy of spot on your plate. Healthy and delicious broccoli recipes Photo: Flora & Vino 1. Riced broccoli buddha bowl Did you know that you can rice broccoli? (Smell ya later, cauliflower!) In this recipe, the mighty green veggie is the stars in a dish featuring grilled tofu, carrots, cabbage, and cashews. Photo: Rabbit and Wolves 2. Spicy glazed popcorn broccoli Any popcorn chicken fan will be able to get down with these broccoli bites. They’re crispy, crunchy, and much healthier than the real
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Everyone’s going on a #skincarediet and we are *here* for it
January 15, 2019 at 11:30AM by CWC The hashtag #skincarediet is going viral on Instagram and YouTube, with users touting their great results from using fewer skin-care products (gasp). Minimalist beauty enthusiasts are claiming that using too many products can actually make your skin thinner and more sensitive. And so people are paring back, seemingly from a lazy girl’s cry for a routine that delivers the same results but with less of a time investment (cleverly dubbed “skip-care”). Skip-care, explains Byrdie, is all about streamlining your routine and removing steps without sacrificing any of the ingredients or properties that are imperative to your hydrated and supple skin goals. “Skip-care is a skincare method that allows you to identify the essential ingredients for your skin and avoid the use of unnecessary products for a simpler, yet proper, skincare routine,” a member of the Amore Pacific team told Byrdie. AKA: It’s about asking your products to do more so you can do less. Ahhhh, the lazy girl’s dream! Like skip-care, #skincarediet is all about simplifying your routine. To do this, beauty brands, especially those in the K-beauty space, are consolidating offerings: For example, they’re offering an essence (step 7) that is also a moisturizer (step 8), or a moisturizer that also has your vitamin C serum in it. This is a burgeoning part of the market but eventually, your 10-step skincare routine could be distilled down to much fewer products for the same glow-inducing results. Another method is by forgoing certain steps altogether. Not
Could This Potent Anti-Inflammatory Oil Be Even Better Than Fish Oil?
January 15, 2019 at 11:00PM Learn more about this rich omega-3 source, including how it differs from fish oil Continue Reading… Author Stephanie Eckelkamp | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Check workout off your to do list with Jillian Michael’s 10-minute total-body sweat sesh
January 16, 2019 at 11:39AM by CWC There are a million reasons why making it to the gym can often feel impossible (I’m too tired! It’s too cold! All of my leggings are dirty!), but 2019 is the year that “I’m too busy” is hereby banished from the list of excuses to not workout. While carving out a dedicated treadmill hour between meetings and meal prep and all other adulting is a heavy ask, making time for 10-minute micro-workouts is arguably something everyone can manage—even if you can’t make it to an actual gym to get it done. To make it even easier, fitness pro Jillian Michaels is here to help. Her 10-minute, full-body workouts—care of the My Fitness by Jillian Michaels app—require nothing more than a set of barbells and a few free minutes during lunch. The routine includes 24 different moves, like squat thrusts, plyo pops, and double crunches, each of which is performed for a 25-second interval. Because you’re changing things up so frequently, your heart will be pumping hard, and you’re pretty much guaranteed not to get bored. According to Michaels, one of the best ways to stick with your New Year’s fitness resolutions is to figure out the logistics in order to keep them consistent. “It requires looking at your life, your schedule, and working your fitness goal into those logistics. The most important thing, though, is making time for your workouts, so you have to schedule them,” she says. Make them a priority, and stick them on your calendar the
This under-the-radar chemical exfoliant is actually super gentle
January 16, 2019 at 11:01AM by CWC It was only recently that I began hoarding each and every beauty product that claims to “brighten” my skin (thanks to a long bout with acne that left my complexion marked with scars). I thought I had it all covered: retinol to increase cell turnover, various acids to exfoliate, and plenty of vitamin C serum. But then I heard about another skin-brightening superstar during a facial treatment I had: mandelic acid. Basically, it’s an under-the-radar alpha hydroxy acid (AHA). “Mandelic acid is an AHA derived from bitter almonds,” says celebrity facialist Shani Darden. What makes it special, however, is that it’s unlike other AHAs (like glycolic and lactic acid, for instance) because it’s easier on the complexion. “It has a larger molecule than some other AHAs which is what makes it gentler and less likely to cause any sort of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation,” she says. Founder of San Francisco’s Spa Radiance, facialist guru Angelina Umansky, has been using mandelic acid for almost 20 years. “Mandelic acid is very brightening and also gives the skin strength,” she tells me. “I use it on all skin types except those with rosacea during my facials, and I always put a few drops in whenever I cleanse my clients’ skin or before dermabrasion. It’s one of my favorite products in treatments for anti-aging or hyperpigmentation.” Mandelic acid works its wonders by exfoliation (of course). “Similar to other AHAs, mandelic acid functions as an exfoliator that dissolves skin cells
A Future Without Coffee? It Might Be Closer Than We Think, Study Says
January 16, 2019 at 09:13AM Here’s what you can do. Continue Reading… Author Elizabeth Gerson | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
A psychologist explains my love of watching the Food Network at the gym
January 16, 2019 at 09:00AM by CWC Now that it’s January, I’d like to take a moment to bow our heads and say RIP to the Holiday Baking show. Because since we’re all friends here, I’ll tell you a little something about me you wouldn’t otherwise have known: I rely on The Food Network to get through my treadmill workouts. As if the audio workouts I queue up to guide my indoor runs aren’t stimulating enough to my senses all on their own, I turn on Guy’s Grocery Games—captions and all. Should Cake Wars grace the airwaves, I take mental bets on whose third tier will tumble before I even make it to my muscle burnout. Really, it’s not the food that I’m attracted to, but the mindless marshmallow fluff that keeps me from thinking about the miles as they inch upwards on my screen. I’m sure that House Hunters would do just as well. I’m sure I could keep pace while watching Keeping up with the Kardashians, but I have an endorphin-fueled relationship with New York’s channel 50, and I’m not afraid to admit it. Since it seemed low-key concerning to me, I decided to ask a psychologist whether or not I needed to hit the power button and shut down my reliance on high-stakes grocery cart races to get me through a sweat sesh. “When we’re physically training, we really don’t have the mental resources to be dedicating to really in-depth thinking,” says Matt Johnson, PhD, a psychologist and neuromarketing expert in San
Here’s what it means when your friend says she’s avoiding “damp” foods
January 16, 2019 at 08:31AM by CWC Most of us think of “damp” and “dry” in terms of how recently we used our bath towels, or what the weather is doing outside. But according to the 2,500-year-old school of thought of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there’s so much more to these concepts than what’s going on outside the body. “The idea of internal dampness versus dryness in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the specific ways that what you eat affects your overall internal balance,” explains Josh Axe, D.N.M., C.N.S., D.C, author of the upcoming book, Keto Diet (Feb 2019) and co-founder of Ancient Nutrition. (Dampness and dryness are two of the six the “pernicious influences” in TCM that are believed to affect your body’s balance and cause illness and disharmony—along with heat, cold, wind, and summer heat.) After being eaten and digested, some foods create an environment of dampness while others create an environment of internal dryness, Dr. Axe says. As for what that means (as well as the rationale behind your BFF’s new “anti-dampness” diet)…more on that below. What is “dampness?” The TCM approach suggests that there are certain foods that make our internal systems “damp”, or phlegmy, clammy, sluggish, swollen, groggy, or cold , says Jill Blakeway, DACM, a doctor of Chinese medicine and Well+Good Council member. “These symptoms start in the digestive symptom and spleen, and then accumulate and bring stagnation to the rest of the body.” Stagnation translates into things like unwanted weight gain, bloating, low energy, loose stools, and phlegm-y lungs, she says. She adds
Retinol drying out your skin? These ingredients can help
January 16, 2019 at 08:01AM by CWC If retinol had a Real Housewives tagline, it would be something along the lines of: “I’ll build you up and break you down all at the same time.” The hero ingredient can do pretty much anything when it comes to enhancing your skin, including speeding up cell turnover, promoting collagen production, and evening out skin tone, but in the process of working its bottom-up magic, it also does a number on the skin barrier by depleting it of moisture. “While it’s great to build collagen in the skin, it does tend to break down your surface layer, causing a lot of sensitivity and dryness,” explains Jen Sarkozy-Woog, treatments supervisor at Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa in California. This is why a nighttime retinol regimen may leave you with a red, peeling face the next morning (it happened to me recently, and it was the w-o-r-s-t), and why it’s important to ramp up your routine with hydrating and protective ingredients when using a vitamin A derivative—think of them as retinol’s skin-saving sidekicks—to keep your skin barrier happy. To sum it up to simplest terms? You’ve got to protect during the day and prevent at night. “In the daytime think about blocking your skin out from all of the impurities in the air, sun, and pollution, so antioxidants and SPF, and then at nighttime use your thicker products, because that’s when your cells are regenerating,” says Sarkozy-Woogs. Here, she shares the ingredients you should be looking for to
This is what the om symbol means, in case you were wondering
January 16, 2019 at 07:53AM by CWC If you’ve ever been to a yoga class, you’ll most definitely be familiar with the “om” symbol—whether it was swinging from a mala necklace at the front desk, painted on the studio wall, or tattooed onto the lower back of the girl down-dogging beside you. (It may seem a little basic now, but Indra Devi, the iconoclast who brought Hatha yoga to the west in the 1940s, would have definitely approved.) Yet despite the fact that it’s absolutely everywhere, have you ever stopped to consider what the om symbol meaning is actually? It’s a lot more layered than you might think, according to Vidya Shetty, an Ayurvedic counselor at YO1 Wellness Center in New York’s Catskill mountains. First, we should clarify what the spoken word “om” means. “Om is the primordial sound from which the entire universe was created,” Shetty explains. “It’s debated that the patterns of sound waves around the sun and the sound wave patterns of om are similar.” Originally found in the Vedas, a collection of Hindu texts written in India between 1500 and 1000 BCE, om is also referred to as “Shabdha Brahman”—”God as sound” or “God as vibration”—and the “Anahat,” or “unstruck” sound. Chanting “om” at the beginning and end of a yoga class is thought to help us tap into that universal energy. “Om connects us to our practices in a deeper way, creating spiritual awareness,” says Shetty. She adds that the vibration and rhythm of chanting “om” out