Your Guide to Essential Winter Greens and How To Use Them

30/11/2024

Even though there’s a heck of a lot of plant-based foods out there, greens are often thought of as one of the foundational foods of plant-based eating. This is because they have high concentrations of vitamins, nutrients, and minerals. They’re also inexpensive and widely accessible; even in the dead of winter, there’s still plenty of varieties of greens that are in season...

How To Use Psychological Flexibility To ‘Bend’ Negative Emotions Rather Than Deny Them

27/11/2024

Even if you're a glass-half-full type of person, no one can be positive all the time. But it's also just as true that how we respond to negative emotions when they surface can have a direct effect on our overall mental health. Often, there's a desire to completely push negative thoughts away or become consumed by them completely...

How Extreme Weather Affects Your Health

24/11/2024

We can no longer ignore the effects of climate change. From shrinking glaciers to frequent heatwaves, the future none of us wanted to imagine is already the present. We’ve already seen natural disasters hit the far corners of the earth and, according to the experts, this is just the beginning.

Understanding the health implications of this colossal...

12 Science-Backed Ways to Lose Belly Fat for Good, According to Weight Loss Experts

21/11/2024

Losing weight in general is hard, but dropping belly fat in particular can feel insurmountable. It’s not all in your head: “It’s essentially impossible to tell one specific region of your body to accelerate fat metabolism,” says Chris DiVecchio, a NASM-certified personal trainer and author of The 5 x 2 Method: Revealing the Power of Your Senses...

How I Protect My Mental Health Against the Isolation of Quarantine

18/11/2024

The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has rocked our world and caused all of us to isolate in ways we never dreamed of doing before. For some of us who have a severe mental illness diagnosis, this isolation is more than we might have ever experienced with our most extreme symptoms. While I have to fight...

6 Ways to Burn More Calories While Walking, According to Personal Trainers

15/11/2024

It can be hard to convince yourself to exercise, especially if it means dragging yourself to the gym. But not all exercise has to be a high-intensity sweat sesh. 

In fact, just walking can help you meet the US Department of Health and Human Services exercise guidelines. Walking can also be a great, low-impact...

5 Rules for Choosing Healthy Juices

12/11/2024

With a juicery on every corner and a well-stocked beverage section at every health food store, it's super easy to just grab a nutrient-packed refreshment after a yoga class or if you skipped lunch. While a fruit-and-veggie-loaded drink sounds righteous in theory, are juices really healthy? Well, yes and no.

"Juices can be part of a healthy diet, but they are not...

A Simple Guide on How to Start Meditating, According to Experts

09/11/2024

We’ve all been there: The clock strikes midnight, and our thoughts race on as if we’d just walked into the office with our first cup of coffee. Sleep? Never heard of her, minus a few quick minutes of shut-eye in between the tossing and turning.

This scenario is all too common for many. It’s incredibly challenging to calm down a racing mind after a full day of working, parenting...

The Winding Road to Migraine Treatment

06/11/2024

“The process of getting an accurate migraine diagnosis was one of the most confusing, fearful, and difficult periods of my life,” Natalie Sayre tells SELF. Sayre, 28, lived with chronic migraine for years before getting a diagnosis.

After the onset of her first migraine when she was 19, Sayre’s migraine attacks worsened, but she had a pretty limited understanding...

How to Walk Properly: 6 Tips to Fix Your Walking Form

03/11/2024

Walking is one of the most accessible and all-around good-for-you exercise programs you can implement. Not only is it easy to throw on a pair of walking shoes and head out the door, but this straightforward form of low-impact cardiovascular exercise works your heart, lungs, legs...