January 15, 2019 at 10:01AM Natural Choices For Breast Cancer & Lung Cancer Continue Reading… Author Stephanie Eckelkamp | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue Maybe you think getting cancer is kind of a tossup, or that it’s something left to the genetic gods that you have no control over. But the truth is, you do have control, every time you put something in your mouth. Turns out, lifestyle factors are involved in most cancers—factors you control are estimated to account for 90 percent of all causes of cancer, and of that, diet may account for 35 percent. Food really is the best preventive medicine. We see this in real life when we look at the cultures that live the longest, aka the blue zones. Though they’re scattered around the world—from Okinawa, Japan, to Ikaria, Greece, to Sardinia, Italy—they all have one thing in common: good food. Generally, in these communities, where it’s not uncommon to live to be 100, people eat loads of whole fruits and vegetables, plenty of fish and olive oil, beans, whole grains, minimal red meat, and maybe drink some red wine in moderation. But it’s not the locations themselves that are special. Consider the Mediterranean diet, which anyone can adopt, and how it’s associated with a reduced risk of all sorts of cancers, including breast and colon cancer. Foods can fight cancer both indirectly and directly. Indirectly, selecting the right combination of foods (i.e., whole, minimally processed, fruit- and veggie- heavy, high in fiber)
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Ever get hairy zits? A derm explains what this means
January 15, 2019 at 08:38AM by CWC As someone who’s dealt with acne for half of my life, I’ve seen it manifest itself in an entertaining variety of ways. Whiteheads and blackheads are form I’m very familiar (you could even say intimate) with. I’ve also got a strong relationship with hormonal acne and all of the various cysts it rears its head with. And I’ve even seen body acne. You can’t really stump me with pimples. But then I stumbled upon a Reddit Skin-care subthread about zits with hair. Excusez-moi? “I saw something coming out of my acne—it looked like face hair. I never noticed this before, can someone advise what type of acne this is?” the user writes. Fair question. Hair growing out of zits is apparently a thing—not to be confused with moles. The interesting thing I learned, however, is that these aren’t exactly zits at all. “They’re zit doppelgängers,” says Mona Gohara, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in Danbury, Connecticut. “It’s more of a cystic, inflammatory reaction to a hair.” If you’re experiencing this breed of “pimple,” you’ll notice it’s either an ingrown hair or that it’s particularly sharp, according to Dr. Gohara. “Something about these create an inflammatory response in the skin.” And so that gives off the illusion that you’re facing a zit that grows its own strands of hair (impressive, but no thanks). So what can you do if you don’t exactly want that on your face? The secret is to treat it with retinol (what doesn’t retinol
There are millions of yoga videos on YouTube, but these are our 5 favorite instructors
January 15, 2019 at 08:16AM by CWC If you can’t be bothered to leave the house for a yoga class, that’s cool. You don’t have to. Countless yoga videos exist online and they don’t cost a nickel. But with so many options available on the platform, it can be tricky to find the best YouTube yoga instructor—someone you want to hang with in your living room on Saturday morning. Since the dawn of YouTube, women have been killing it in the digital yoga space, with each instructor offering something a little different. Whether you’re into high-power quickie workouts that fit into a lunch break or you’re seeking all things restorative, look no further for your go-to instructor. Meet our 5 favorite yoga instructors on YouTube [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xsYgTeM2Q?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] 1. Adriene Mishler of Yoga with Adriene Adriene Mishler has been sharing her love of yoga on YouTube for more than six years, giving fans everything from typical flows to yoga that can help combat health issues such as acid reflux and neck pain. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wGImCxASA?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] 2. Briohny Smyth of Yoga with Briohny You might recognize Briohny Smyth from Alo Yoga’s YouTube videos, but about seven months ago she started posting videos to her own channel seven months ago. She offers a variety of at-home workouts, often including tips for performing some of the more complicated poses. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIZFYNHvXA?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] 3. Tara Stiles of Stråla Yoga It’ll take some dedication to get through Tara Stiles’ 10 years of video uploads. Whether you need a quick flow to relax after a long day
“I’m a vegan who hates salad. Here’s what I eat instead”
January 15, 2019 at 07:50AM by CWC I grew up in the Midwest, where in my experience, a meal isn’t a meal unless there’s meat. And that was my M.O. until 2016, when I watched a speech about the food industry from animal rights activist Gary Yourofsky that left me totally gut-wrenched. I decided I had to completely shift the way I ate, and went vegan at the start of 2017. Surprisingly, the meat- and cheese-less lifestyle wasn’t as hard—or as boring!—as I thought it would be. I started getting creative with my meals, falling in love with ingredients I had never even heard of before (hello, nutritional yeast) and experimenting with vegan ways to recreate my favorite foods. Because while yes, my fridge is filled with kale, I still love eating pasta, pizza, burgers, and BBQ wings. They just look a little differently than they used to. Now two years later, my go-tos are dishes that fill me up, make me feel good, and are full of ingredients that fuel and energize me throughout my day. And while I do eat a salad here and there, I’m definitely not the type of person who’s going to eat one every single day…or even once a week, for that matter. (It’s not my favorite! Don’t sue me!) Here’s exactly what you can find me munching on instead. Here’s everything I eat as a vegan, from “cheeseburgers” to pancakes. Monday Breakfast: Food for Life’s Ezekiel sprouted whole grain English muffin with peanut butter I love eating something warm right
The very smallest thing 22 people do for self care
January 15, 2019 at 07:30AM by CWC Many evenings before bed, I dim the lights, light a candle, and listen to lullaby-esque instrumental versions of Red Hot Chili Peppers songs by a group called Rockabye Baby! (They also produce baby-friendly bedtime renditions of everything from David Bowie and Beyoncé to Hamilton.) For me, listening to familiar songs that replace pounding drums and a shredding guitar with a gentle xylophone and the occasional slide whistle is self care. In that vein, a self-care routine doesn’t have to be expensive or time-consuming or really require any serious life changes. The most important feature of it is to simply exist. And often, it’s the very simple, very personalized things we do that have the biggest impact on our sense of well-being—especially if we take the time to recognize the benefits. Need some inspo for your own routine? I asked 22 busy people, “What’s the smallest thing you do for self care?” Here are there answers. 22 small acts of self care that make a huge difference in happiness. Photo: Getty Images/PhotoAltoFrederic-Cirou 1. Rewatching content “I watch movies I’ve seen before, or episodes of television shows that I’ve seen before. I’m often spiraling down a dark and seemingly endless well of unknowing, and so I find it really calming to watch something knowing exactly what awaits.” —Hanif Abdurraqib, poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us 2. Making perfect soft-boiled eggs “I use my egg machine to soft-boil
Does reading spark joy for you? Thousands of books are now available to download for free
January 15, 2019 at 07:22AM by CWC Any bookworm understands the struggle of storing hundreds—if not thousands—of their favorite stories. Unless you’re #blessed with a Beauty and the Beast-style library, books spend their lives on closet shelves, in cabinets, under the bed—basically anywhere you can squeeze them until the next reread. But if reading sparks joy for you, there’s a new way to keep your favorite book close and still maintain an organized (Marie Kondo-approved) home. Thousands of books were just added to the public domain, meaning you can download them to your e-reader free of charge. According to Motherboard, books—as well as movies and songs—that were published between 1923 and 1977 remain under copyright for 95 years. As of January 1, works from 1923 are available, including plenty of noteworthy classics by Robert Frost, Virginia Woolf, Winston S. Churchill, E. E. Cummings, and Agatha Christie. One of the most impressive digital libraries, HathiTrust offers more than 50,000 books from 1923 alone. You can also download from Read Print, The Literature Network, and Authorama. And if you’re not into classics, don’t worry: Just borrow digital copies of newer e-books and audiobooks straight from your local public library. Technology is a pretty great thing, huh? By storing some books on your e-reader, you’ll be able to enjoy your beloved hobby from anywhere while at the same time keeping the clutter at bay. You can now use your Kindle in the bathtub. Or, find out if “night shift” modes on your electronics really help you sleep better.
Exclusive: Briogeo is getting into the wellness game with an essential oil drop
January 15, 2019 at 06:59AM by CWC It’s happening: Clean hair-care brand Briogeo is segueing into the wellness category in an effort to bring a more comprehensive selection of non-toxic goodies to your beauty arsenal. Known already for their game-changing shampoos, conditioners, and hairstyling treatments that are concocted using only good-for-you ingredients, the brand is now offering an organic, multi-functional carrier and essential oil to round out your regimen. B. Well, Briogeo’s new line, launches today at Sephora and on Briogeo’s website with two products—a castor oil ($26) and an Australian tea tree oil ($32). Both are meant to be used all over: for your skin, your hair, and your body. “Briogeo has always been an ingredient-conscious brand and has aimed to create clean and highly effective products—it’s really a lifestyle story that we’ve been telling, but through the lens of hair care,” says Nancy Twine, the brand’s founder and CEO. “We know personal care and wellness is a lot more than just hair care, so the idea of creating B. Well was to allow us to really take our ingredient methodology and apply to other really important wellness products.” “We know personal care and wellness is a lot more than just hair care, so the idea of creating B. Well was to allow us to really take our ingredient methodology and apply to other really important wellness products.” —Nancy Twine And with that, she came up with two cold-pressed oils that allow her to “tip toe” into the category—and Twine
5 healthy products that will make going Mediterranean even easier
January 15, 2019 at 06:45AM by CWC In the wellness world, the Mediterranean diet is as acclaimed as it gets, with research touting its cardiovascular and longevity-boosting benefits. Even though it’s old-school, it was recently named the healthiest eating plan to follow by medical researchers. The diet’s bursting with omega-3s and healthy fats (from fish, eggs, nuts, and olive oil), probiotics (hello, Greek yogurt), and lots of grains, legumes, fruits, and veggies. If you want to start eating more of a Mediterranean-style diet but don’t know where to start, look no further than the below roundup. Consider it your Mediterranean diet starter kit: Scroll down for 5 Mediterranean-inspired supermarket finds worth checking out. Photo: Gaea Fresh Gaea Fresh Olive Oil The number-one item that must (must!) be in every Mediterranean-inspired pantry? Olive oil, obviously. It does have a low smoke point, so you don’t want to cook it at super-high heats, but it’s perfect for, say, drizzling on salads—and the more flavorful it is, the less you have to use. Inside each Gaea bottle is the juice from about 2,300 olives, all of which have been harvested by hand—which makes this fresh-pressed, extra virgin variety extra tasty. Photo: Steep Echo Steep Echo Olive Leaf Tea Olive trees have been beloved for centuries for their medicinal benefits, and these teas tap into that time-honored tradition. “The leaves have the compound oleuropein—it’s also in the olives themselves—which wards off infection,” says Steep Echo founder Kimberly Branum. “They have double the antioxidants as green tea, and also a good
Measure sex by quality, not quantity, to reap all the pleasurable rewards
January 15, 2019 at 05:30AM by CWC For so long, the health and supposed normalcy of a person’s sex life has been measured in terms of “how often do you…?” Case in point: that scene in the first Sex and The City movie where Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda discuss over brunch how often they do the deed, because Miranda is concerned that her lower-end frequency alone is symptomatic of big marital problems. By asking, listening, and analyzing how often our peers are hitting the sheets, we—perhaps subconsciously—assign value and meaning to certain benchmarks. And the rule of thumb has been that more sex is better sex. Well, it’s high time for the question of “how much do you do it?” to undergo a qualitative rebranding, making it more along the lines of, “so, how good was it?” And leading sexperts—along with the habits of the population at large—are in total support of the edit. Late last year, a piece in The Atlantic sent the internet buzzing because it concluded that in general, we’re just not getting it on as often as we used to. Evidence backs up the claim: A 2017 paper’s analysis of the General Social Survey found that Americans were having sex nine times less in the early 2000s than they were in the late 1990s, largely due to more individuals opting out of commitment and devoted couples abstaining from the act. The huge elephant in the bedroom though? Could having less sex open the opportunity to have better sex? Or, at least to rethink what we
Well+Good TALKS: ReNew Year Edition
January 15, 2019 at 04:05AM by CWC Why one smart change is enough. It’s the end of performative wellness—AKA being exhausted by all the things you do for the ’gram. In the next Well+Good TALK, experts and authors will share their experience and the science on fitness, skin care, and nutrition. Snag your tickets now to find out how to simplify your healthy life for a rad, woke, and really well year. EVENT DETAILS Thursday, January 31, 2018 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: The Assemblage NoMad | 114 East 25th, New York, NY 10010 THE PANEL Ali Finney | Well+Good Senior Editor, Beauty + Fitness With deep experience covering the beauty and fitness beats for Well+Good, Ali’s writing has also appeared in ELLE, Women’s Health, and Texas Monthly. An avid runner, she just ran the New York City Marathon in 2018. Daphne Javitch | Holistic Nutritionist + Founder of Doing Well Overcoming lifelong symptoms of Stage 4 Endometriosis through diet and lifestyle inspired Daphne to get certified as a Health Educator and become a holistic nutritionist. In addition to her work with corporate, private, and high-profile clients, Daphne appears on panels and podcasts, and her insights have been shared widely in women’s lifestyle media. Doing Well is her vision of health: simple, straightforward, and real-life friendly. Bee Shapiro | New York Times Beauty Columnist + Author of Skin Deep Bee Shapiro is the longtime New York Times beauty columnist and author of Skin Deep: Women on Skin Care, Makeup,