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Join Jai Sugrim, a New York City-based yoga teacher, in this soothing yoga sequence for runners. The sequence targets the hamstrings, hips, pectorals, and deltoids, which often get sore and tight on long runs. This class begins on the ground and works its way up the body, methodically opening up areas of tension. Listen along to Sugrim’s precise alignment cues and variations, as well as his breath count, which will help to deepen each posture for maximum benefit.

Related: Can Running Really Be a Form of Meditation?

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What makes you beautiful? One Direction had a few answers. But that’s beside the point—and so 2011. Now there’s an awesome new campaign using the hashtag #WhatMakesMeBeautiful. The cool thing? The focus isn’t on anything physical.

Project Heal, an organization that helps men and women who can’t afford treatment for eating disorders, is asking people to complete the sentence “What makes me beautiful…” to raise awareness and support for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week on social media. The posts focus on attributes like happiness, kindness, a sense of humor, and even one woman’s sweet dance moves. And they reminds us there are so many different ways to define beauty.

Check out some of the inspiring photos from the campaign below:

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For many of us, the gym is a place for some alone time. Sure, we’re in a room full of sweaty strangers, but once we’ve got our headphones plugged in and our bumping beats turned up, we’re in our own little oasis. That is, if we didn’t pick the treadmill next to the karaoke singer, in front of the grunter, or within eyeshot of the couple that gets a little too touchy mid-workout. Then the bliss is ruined. At least we can all enjoy a good laugh seeing them on display in this over-the-top video.

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Source: http://greatist.com/live/stop-saying-sorry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed_http–greatistcom-

The other afternoon I arrived a quiet bar in midtown New York. I sat alone and patiently waited for someone to take my order. One bartender was busy flirting with a customer. Another was laughing at his iPhone and watching what seemed to be the funniest (and longest) YouTube video in history.

As the minutes kept ticking by, I couldn’t contain my desire for a glass of prosecco any longer. “Excuse me!” I exclaimed, causing the now-disgruntled bartender to look up from his phone and saunter my way.

“Yes?” he asked. (No “Sorry to keep you waiting.”) The next words out of my mouth: Instead of “May a see a menu?” or “A glass of prosecco, please,” I said, “So sorry, but can I please see your wine list?”

Sorry?! What was I sorry for? Asking for a drink? At a bar? I was mad with myself as soon as I said it. Why was I apologizing?

Are you like this too? You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) be. Women in particular may be more likely to utter automatic apologies, it turns out. But while research shows women say sorry more often than men, it’s not that men are more reluctant to apologize for mistakes: “It’s just that they think they’ve done fewer things wrong,” the study author notes. Let’s all take a page from their book.

Here are five situations when you should replace the unnecessary word with a much more empowering (and accurate) response.

Stop Apologizing For… 1. Getting in or out of a busy elevator/subw…

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“We cripple people who are capable of walking because we choose to carry them.” ~Christie Williams

Years ago, I had a dear friend who needed a lot of support for various reasons. She was working hard to find her way out of a dark period. She had suffered traumas and tragedies—things I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Her life really did resemble a roller coaster ride. It was heartbreaking to watch her struggle, exciting when things would be on the upswing, and upsetting again when things would spiral downhill.

Because I had known her almost my whole life and because I loved her dearly, I tried my best to always be there when she needed me. I am someone who knows and appreciates how important it is to have supportive people around you, offering love and kindness, especially during times of struggle.

Sometimes being there for her simply meant picking up her call in the middle of the night and talking with her.

Sometimes it meant dropping what I was doing and driving to meet her to make sure she was okay.

There were talks, tears, and through that, hard truths were often revealed.

Of course, it wasn’t all dark and dreary. There were bright moments and memories too. There were movie marathons and game nights. There was laughter to the point of tears. Many a meal …

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“If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself.” ~Jocelyn Murray

Do you say yes to things only to keep people happy?

Do you fear saying and doing what you actually want?

I know how that feels.

From a young age, I was the polite, good girl. I rarely rebelled. I wanted to keep everyone happy. I thought that if I was honest I’d be rejected. That those closest to me wouldn’t love me. I thought I’d end up alone.

At friends’ houses, asked what I’d like to drink or eat, I would always respond with “Whatever’s easiest.” I never wanted to be a burden.

At twenty-one I met my boyfriend’s parents. Dinner was fresh sardines complete with tiny bones. I was vegetarian and hated fish, yet I said nothing and ate away.

I fought the urge to be sick. I followed each revolting bite with a gulp of water. I should have spoken up, but I feared disapproval.

After college, the desire to keep everyone happy led me into jobs I thought people would approve of. By my mid-twenties I had a job in management. I was successful. But inside I was miserable.

Living my life according to the word “should” was gruelling. When I finally stopped, I felt empty and unsure of who I was.

One day it became too much. I d…

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/02/more-industry-funded-studies-the-score-13512/

It’s been 11 months since I started collecting studies funded by food companies with results favorable to the company’s marketing interests.  I’ve now found 135 such studies versus just 12 with results unfavorable.

When the year is up, I will do an overall interpretation of what this collection does and does not signify, but for the moment I will just state the obvious: it is easier to find industry-funded studies with favorable rather than unfavorable results.

Enjoy this week’s collection.

Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS): rationale and study design. M. Fisberg, I. Kovalskys, G. Gómez, A. Rigotti, L. Y. Cortés, M. Herrera-Cuenca, M. C. Yépez, R. G. Pareja,Guajardo, I. Z. Zimberg, A. D. P. Chiavegatto Filho, M. Pratt, B. Koletzko, K. L. Tucker and the ELANS Study Group. BMC Public Health (2016) 16:93.  DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-2765-y.

Conclusion: This study will provide valuable information and a unique dataset regarding Latin America that will enable cross-country comparisons of nutritional statuses that focus on energy and macro- and micronutrient intakes, food patterns, and energy expenditure.
Funding: The ELANS study and authors were partially supported by a scientific grant from the Coca Cola Company and by different grants and support from the Instituto Pensi/Hospital Infantil Sabara, International Life Science Institute of Argentina, Universidad de Costa Rica, Pontificia Universidad Católica d…

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“Wow, it’s cold out!” Yes, we know. We were outside too. But mention of the weather is almost unavoidable in small talk. “Medium talk” aims to get rid of those mostly meaningless conversations. There’s no official definition, but the goal of medium talk is to walk away with something you’ll actually remember about that person.

The art of conversation is complicated, especially at a time when a series of back and forth one-line texts can count as chatting, says Gail Saltz, M.D., a psychiatry professor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Both Saltz and Michele Kerulis, EdD, a clinical lecturer and counseling professor at Northwestern University, encourage people who struggle with social anxiety to have medium talk conversations. “Creating a sense of intimacy has to do with two things: sharing things that feel close to you and an exploration of value systems,” Saltz says. When you upgrade to medium talk, you find out what’s actually important to someone, rather than just a list of facts about their life.

Getting to medium talk can be as simple as putting a twist on a commonly asked question, as we saw on a recent “Ask Reddit” thread. (Instead of asking ‘What’s something you like?’ opt for ‘What’s something you like that most people don’t?’)

“Young people ask ‘What was your major?’ but sometimes ‘What do you wish your major had been?’ can be more interesting conversation,” says Christopher Willard, Psy.D., a practicing therapist. Similarly, ‘What wo…

Source: http://greatist.com/eat/clean-eating-recipes-that-taste-amazing?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed_http–greatistcom-

Clean eating is one of those trendy terms people like to throw out there—and nobody really knows what it means. So we find ourselves asking if we can consider our meal “clean” if it has an iota of wheat, natural sweetener (another mysterious food term), or sea salt.

Nutritionist Tosco Reno, author of the Eat Clean Diet, has a simple way of defining clean eating. “Eating clean is about choosing fresh, whole foods with all of their nutrients intact,” she says. That means trying to avoid processed foods, including healthy things like unsweetened almond milk (unless it’s homemade), as well as foods with added processed sugar.

To prove it’s not as tough or tasteless as it sounds, we rounded up these recipes. All are made with common ingredients (no need for fancy superfood powders or spices you’ll never use again) and contain loads of flavor, color, and satisfaction—plus health benefits because who doesn’t like those? And no, they’re not all kale salad. Time to get your taste buds out of the fast-food gutter and come to the clean side!

Breakfast

Photo: Edible Perspective

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Chefs at work in the kitchen of a restaurant in New York’s Chinatown, circa 1940. For many Chinese, opening up restaurants became a way to bypass U.S. immigration laws designed to keep them out of the country.

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Americans craving Kung Pao chicken or a good lo mein for dinner have plenty of options: The U.S. is home to more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants.

One could think of this proliferation as a promise fulfilled — America as the great melting pot and land of opportunity for immigrants. Ironically, the legal forces that made this Chinese culinary profusion possible, beginning in the early 20th century, were born of altogether different sentiments: racism and xenophobia.

Anti-Chinese sentiment was ra…