July 25, 2019 at 02:01AM by CWC A few Instagram influencers aside, nobody meal preps perfectly every single week. Life happens and sometimes all those time- and budget-conscious habits fall apart. Before you know it, you’ll find yourself shelling out $15 for lunch on a regular basis. (When did chopped salads get so pricey anyway?!) If you follow a specific eating plan, such as keto, Whole30, or Paleo, figuring out where to go for lunch can be tricky and require Google searching what healthy grab-and-go places are nearby that offer meals you can actually eat and feel good about. And who has time for that? The lack of time is what got you into this situation in the first place. Even if you’re short on time, chances are, you can find five measly minutes in your day to prep a lunch. Even during those weeks when Sunday meal prep is a pie-in-the-sky dream, there are easy meals you can make very, very quickly. Each of these recipes is Paleo-approved and requires just five minutes of your time. See ya later, sad desk lunch! ad_intervals[‘410079_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘410079_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); 5 Paleo lunch recipes that take just 5 minutes to make Photo: Healing Gourmet 1. Curry chicken salad wraps Contrary to what you might think, wraps can be Paleo-friendly. The key is buying ones made withe coconut or almond flour. Pair leftover chicken with a turmeric-mayo combo, add avocado and kale, and your meal
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What’s the difference between keto and Atkins, anyways?
July 24, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC It’s safe to say that when it comes to low-carb eating plans, the ketogenic diet is king. It was one of the most popular eating plans of 2018, it’s spurred the popularity of MCT oil and other fat-friendly foods, and inspires loyalty (and backlash) so intense that it’s sparked intense public celebrity feuds. But for those of us old enough to remember the early 2000s with any clarity (sorry, Gen Z!) the keto diet is reminiscent of another low-carb eating plan: the Atkins diet. Once wildly popular, the diet somewhat faded in the background in favor of other eating plans like Paleo and Whole30. But now that low-carb eating is back in the zeitgeist, it’s worth giving both keto and Atkins a look. Given that they’re both low-carb, high-fat diets, they can’t be that different, right? Not quite, say experts. ad_intervals[‘410410_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘410410_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); Remind me, what is keto again? In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years: “The ketogenic diet is a very low-carb, high-fat, moderate-protein way of eating,” says Sam Presicci, RD, CPT, lead registered dietitian at Snap Kitchen. The keto macros are very strict, she says, with adherents typically getting only 5 to 10 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrates, 15 to 20 percent from protein, and a whopping 75 to 80 percent from fat. The diet was originally created in the ’20s to help
2019 has been the year of the wellness scam, and it’s forcing us to turn our B.S. meters way up
July 24, 2019 at 01:31PM by CWC When your to-do list starts to rival a CVS receipt in length, you start looking for ways to streamline, streamline, streamline. Late last year, we anticipated that one-stop wellness spaces—spots like New York City’s The Well, Lily Kunin’s Clean Market, and WeWork’s Rise by We that are designed to make it easier and more convenient for busy-AF consumers to access a breadth of feel-better services in one fell swoop—would proliferate to meet this need. Since then, our prediction has more than manifested; in addition to the above, 2019 saw the opening of sanity-saving spaces like New York City’s Tia Clinic (where you can meet with both your gyno and acupuncturist), Los Angeles’ The Things We Do beauty and skin-care bar, and Lululemon’s new experiential hub in Chicago. What we didn’t foresee, however, is that the same sense of overwhelm that birthed this movement would also make wellness enthusiasts susceptible to “quick fix” therapies and products that aren’t supported by science and research and are instead, more often than not, just advertising (read: scams). ad_intervals[‘408816_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘408816_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); “The biggest contributor to [the rise of quick-fix wellness hoaxes] is demand, and demand is on the rise because of millennials,” says Jenna Mons, CEO of AccessElite Health, a health and wellness membership program. “Millennials value wellness and well-being second only to family, so they are the generation that wants a more holistic option, the generation that
Megan Rapinoe shares her winning food philosophy that keeps her energy up on and off the field
July 24, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC The average soccer player runs seven miles a game (!), and if this summer has made anything clear about the U.S. women’s national soccer team, it’s that they are definitely above average. Imagine if you went into your workouts with as much energy as these women brought to every single World Cup game—you’d crush it! But the key to being able to do that, of course, is fueling your body properly. It’s something team co-captain Megan Rapinoe has down to a science. (Um hi, World Cup winner over here.) “Overall, my philosophy is just to put good things in my body,” she says. “I don’t really eat anything artificial, fake, or that I can’t pronounce. I try to keep it simple and clean.” Whether she’s crafting a meal for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Rapinoe says she always incorporates lots of fiber-rich veggies, protein, and a serving of carbohydrates, all of which help keep her energy up on and off the field. ad_intervals[‘408676_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘408676_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); A sample eating day: For breakfast, she typically scrambles two eggs with some vegetables like onion or green pepper. Then, she puts the scramble on an English muffin to make a healthy breakfast sandwich. After her workout (during the soccer season, she practices with her team from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and in the off-season she does a cardio workout followed by weight training or Pilates), she has a
Spice up any healthy meal with this low-sugar Hawaiian take on sriracha
July 23, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC I could tell you about the killer coconut ice cream I discovered on Maui’s Road to Hāna—or the sugar-crusted banana bread, hand-blended orange chocolate, freshly-caught fish, or variety of lilikoi (AKA passionfruit)-spiked foods devoured during my recent long weekend on the island. But instead, I’m writing a love note to a far less Instagrammable Hawaiian food: chili pepper water. I’ll be honest—as someone with a pathetically low spicy-food tolerance, I almost turned down my first taste of chili pepper water when it was offered to me as part of an egg-and-veggie breakfast at the Travaasa Hāna experiential resort. Yes, I was rejecting it for its name alone. (Pepper water? No thanks.) But I’ll be forever grateful for the waitress who insisted I give it a chance, because she’s essentially the matchmaker who set me up with my condiment soulmate. Chili pepper water contains a lot of the same ingredients as sriracha—chili peppers, garlic, vinegar, water, salt—but is much lower in sugar. This is helpful if, like me, your vacation meal plan already involves a lot of sugar. (See the aforementioned coconut ice cream, banana bread, chocolate, and lilikoi everything.) It also looks a lot different than its distant hot sauce cousin. Whereas sriracha is fire-engine red and fairly opaque, chili pepper water is quite literally water infused with its various ingredients. This makes it a lot less spicy than sriracha, but still with the same ability to make just about every meal taste
7 brain foods a neuroscientist wants you to eat every day
July 23, 2019 at 08:55AM by CWC When I reach for my fork and chow down, rarely (um, never) do I consider which parts of my body I’m about to nourish. My tastebuds take the wheel and I barely acknowledge that all my organs—from my skin to my liver—are reacting to the macronutrients I’ve put on my plate. Lisa Mosconi, PhD, neuroscientist and author of Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power, argues that when it comes to eating well, the organ you use to think should be top priority. “As a society, we are comfortable with the idea that we feed our bodies, and much less aware that we’re feeding our brains too,” she says. “Parts of the foods we eat will end up being the very fabric of our brains.” Brain-focused nourishment writ large has been on the rise in the wide world of wellness. Nutritional psychiatry has invited the foods we eat to be part of the larger conversation around mental health. And research, including Dr. Mosconi’s, reveals why: What we eat directly affects our cognition. ad_intervals[‘409909_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘409909_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); “Put simply: Everything in the brain that isn’t made by the brain itself is ‘imported’ from the food we eat.” —neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi, PhD “To function best, the brain requires around 45 nutrients that are as distinct as the molecules, cells, and tissues they shape. The brain, being radically efficient, makes many of these nutrients itself,
Why Sarah Michelle Gellar says dessert is an important part of her ‘holistic’ wellness approach
July 23, 2019 at 07:15AM by CWC In the wellness industry, few things are less cool than dessert. Oat milk? Yes. Cauliflower everything? Also, yes. But when it comes to dessert (or anything having to do with sugar) most people would rather do naked hot yoga in Times Square at high noon than own up to the fact that they even eat dessert, much less enjoy it. Which is why I was so pleasantly surprised to hear ’90s icon and Foodstirs co-founder Sarah Michelle Gellar wax poetic about the merits of dessert in a recent interview. “I love dessert, I’m not afraid to love dessert,” she says. “I think we all should have beautiful, sweet things. I’ve never believed in cutting all that out.” She could have said vampires are real and I would have been less surprised. This isn’t a new thing with the actor, either—she says that has always been a part of her overall approach to food. “Obviously I’m known for being athletic, but I’ve always indulged in dessert,” she says. “I would rather have one good, delicious bite of whatever that sweet thing is than a junk-filled trendy version of the opposite. It’s all part of the overall holistic approach to how I take care of my body.” ad_intervals[‘409825_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘409825_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); “I would rather have one good, delicious bite of whatever that sweet thing is than a junk-filled trendy version of the opposite. It’s all part
Following a vegan Mediterranean diet is totally possible if you remember these 3 guidelines
July 23, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC Hot take: The Mediterranean diet is basically Taylor Swift circa “You Belong With Me.” Trendy eating plans like keto are the short skirt-wearing cheer captains in this scenario, while the Med diet is definitely wearing t-shirts and sitting in the bleachers. It’s been here all along, and (this is where my Swift analogy ends) it comes with a laundry list of science-backed benefits. So even if it’s not always at the top of mind, the Mediterranean diet will, to quoth Swift again from a different song, never go out of style. When I think of a typical meal on the Med diet, I imagine just like, a ton of salmon. So following a Mediterranean-style ethos when you’re also vegan may not seem particularly intuitive. But lo! It actually makes a ton of sense. “The Mediterranean diet is a great plan to follow if you’re vegan since the diet focuses mostly on plants, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables anyway,” says Rachel Berman, RD, general manager at Verywell. That’s because the popular eating plan is “more of a lifestyle than a diet, just like being vegan is,” she says. “It’s all about enjoying your food, paying attention to your hunger and fullness cues, and eating a variety of locally sourced wholesome foods.” ad_intervals[‘409544_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘409544_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); That said, there are some things you should keep in mind when trying to combine the two eating plans. Here,
Here’s what to eat on a really long flight, according to a nutritionist
July 22, 2019 at 06:30PM by CWC When you’ve been looking forward to your vacation for weeks, the last thing you want is to end up feeling gross once you get there because the flight threw your digestion off. And when your destination is farther than a quick jaunt to the next state over? Forget about it. What’s the deal with that anyway? Why does stepping foot on an airplane automatically equal digestive distress for so many people? According to Sophia Malek, MScN, culinary nutritionist for Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, there are a lot of factors at play. “A lack of hydration, prolonged sitting, and eating fewer fiber-rich foods can all wreak havoc on your digestion.” “Any time we remove ourselves from our scheduled lives, we open up the possibility of the dreaded traveler’s digestive woes,” Malek says. “A lack of hydration, prolonged sitting, and eating fewer fiber-rich foods can all wreak havoc on your digestion—and that’s if you choose not to have a libation or two.” ad_intervals[‘405226_div-gpt-ad-6934292-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘405226_div-gpt-ad-6934292-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-6934292-3’);}); } }, 100); So before you order that in-flight mimosa or break into a packet of mixed nuts, listen to Malek’s tips for what to eat to keep your digestion happy, no matter how far away you’re flying. Keep reading for the healthy travel snacks and meals Malek recommends for better digestion while flying. Photo: Bob’s Red Mill What to eat First thing’s first: Identifying why your digestion rebels against you as
Is eating raw kale *actually* bad for you? Here’s what the experts say
July 22, 2019 at 04:02PM by CWC Kale is America’s superfood sweetheart, and it’s easy to see why. It’s anti-inflammatory, has been shown to help protect against both heart disease and cancer, and is packed with digestion-boosting fiber, as well as plenty of vitamin C, calcium, and vision-benefiting lutein. It also just so happens to be one of the most versatile foods on the planet. But should you avoid eating raw kale? As a food that’s known for its impressive nutritional profile, there’s really no wrong way to use it. Kale has made its way into salads, smoothies, green juices, tacos, pasta dishes, and more. You can even find it in the chip aisle. And while eating as much of the leafy green as possible isn’t a problem for most people, a handful may need to watch their intake when eating raw kale. While kale itself is an all-star, one thing that gives it its bright and shiny gold star in the health world is also something that can lead to health issues in certain individuals. ad_intervals[‘406617_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘406617_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); “Kale gets its super healthy reputation in part because of compounds called glucosinolates,” says Brierley Horton, MS, RD. (Found in all cruciferous vegetables, gluconsinolates are the subject of intense research centered on cancer prevention.) “However, it’s that exact same compound that also can pose a problem for your metabolism.” Glucosinolates can impact your thyroid, which keeps your metabolism under control. It’s