The most important dietary factor tied to healthy aging, according to a functional medicine doctor

February 27, 2020 at 02:00AM by CWC There’s a belief in our society that aging and a decline in health inevitably go hand-in-hand. Thirty-somethings joking about being unable to tolerate a hangover as well as a decade before or forty-somethings wondering when the heck their bones started aching every morning

Combine these two anti-inflammatory herbs to make the world’s most soothing face mask

February 27, 2020 at 01:00AM by CWC [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDO5-cDa7jI] Whip up this soothing herbal face mask for soft skin in no time. Here’s how to make it.  Whenever I get a facial (read: not as often as I should), the esthetician inevitably exclaims, “Wow, you have sensitive skin!” Meanwhile, my

For some parents, raising the next generation of healthy eaters is about more than eating vegetables—it’s about ending diet culture

February 26, 2020 at 01:00AM by CWC Keto, intermittent fasting, ketotarian: It’s hard to escape talk about dieting in America these days. Diet culture—a system of beliefs that glorifies thinness and weight loss, and equates those things with health, beauty, and virtue—is so pervasive that it’s even reached our children

Mercury retrograde doesn’t have to suck—here are Susan Miller’s 4 tips for making the most of it

February 25, 2020 at 05:00PM by CWC In its most straightforward translation, Mercury being in retrograde just means it appears to be traveling backward. And that’s fitting because when Mercury is in a retrograde cycle, many of us feel like our entire lives are backward—what with travel, communication, and technology

This is the *only* way you should ever eat your potatoes

February 21, 2020 at 11:00PM by CWC Made popular by Trader Joe’s, “everything bagel” seasoning isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. You can sprinkle the mouth-watering blend of poppy seeds, toasted sesame seeds, dried garlic, dried onion, and salt on… everything. It’s great on waffles, salads, avocado toasts, salmon—you name it.

When Instagram ‘wellness influencers’ sound like the pro-anorexia blogs that fueled my eating disorder

February 21, 2020 at 08:00PM by CWC My best friend’s Instagram “discover” page is full of photos of golden retrievers. My mother’s, of inspirational quotes superimposed onto nature scenes (you know the ones). Whenever I open up my favorite app, however, I’m immediately bombarded with videos of women with four-packs

The habit Susan Miller wants you to adopt to make it through Mercury Retrograde unscathed

February 21, 2020 at 05:30PM by CWC When I recently chatted with astrologer Susan Miller of AstrologyZone about Mercury retrograde effects, she offered up some interesting perspective that goes beyond the common themes of communication, travel, and technology problems. Mercury retrograde, she says, is can be summed up as a

Beauty redditors are taking sustainability seriously—and the industry is listening

February 21, 2020 at 12:00PM by CWC Editors may be the beauty industry’s traditional arbiters of taste, but in the digital age, Redditors are just as influential. A vast online forum with discussion groups dedicated to every topic imaginable, Reddit is stacked with highly engaged beauty communities whose members passionately