Oh good, I can finally walk today. Rewind three days to my ViPR workout with fitness expert Mike Donavanik. But first, “Where’s Meredith?” you ask. She’s probably busy icing her calves right now, so I subbed in for her on this one. I’m usually behind the scenes at Glamour.com (we call it the “back end,”
Rainbow-hued food is all over Pinterest and Instagram—mostly, though, in the relatively unhealthy form of ROYGBIV bagels and pretty tie-dye lattes (yes; a thing). But there are health benefits of a real fruit-and-veggie-based rainbow meal, even more than you probably know. Fresh produce is home to more than 25,000 health-boosting chemicals called phytonutrients (which are
Did you gain weight in college? Or maybe you’re experiencing it now? Interestingly, Natalie Portman opened up recently about her 15-pound weight gain at Harvard. The reason is surprising … PHOTO: 2010 Getty Images VENICE, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 01: Actress Natalie Portman attends the Opening Ceremony and “Black Swan” premiere during the 67th Venice Film
Research has suggested that marijuana can provide pain relief, so it’s starting to occur to people that weed just might help with period cramps. Bad PMS is grounds for [a medical marijuana card in California, and New Jersey recently proposed legislation that would let doctors prescribe pot for menstrual cramps. But for women outside those
Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, who just announced the birth of her first child (a baby boy!). A few weeks ago, I spoke to Carrie when she was gearing up for the big launch (that would be the baby boy, Isaiah Michael Fisher) as well as a big launch of another kind—her new workout gear line,
In the opening chapter of my friend Allison Winn Scotch’s new novel, Time of My Life (out next month), the main character wonders if her massage therapist might make a move on her–while she’s lying there on the table. If you’ve ever wondered if it happens (massage therapist-client love connections), the answer is, gulp, yes–it’s
You may have recognized that gorgeous gal in our body image survey as one of the year’s breakout singers, Meghan Trainor (fun fact: It was her first photo shoot for a fashion magazine ever!). Her single “All About That Bass” is our new self-confidence anthem, and here she explains why writing it was so important
If you step into my kitchen, you’ll find lots of almond products: almond milk, almond butter, almond flour, almond yogurt, and raw almonds (both whole and slivered). And because almond has replaced so many other ingredients in my life, it tends to be one that I eat most often—think two or three times a day.
We’ve talked about whether or not we’d want a mean or a nice fitness trainer here on Vitamin G, and I think celebrity fitness guru Jillian Michaels falls somewhere in the middle–she’s tough, effective, and kind of like your friend’s big sister in junior high that you wanted to be like. Attracted to the “no
Elizabeth*, 38, started puberty early, getting her period in the fourth grade. Her pediatrician criticized her for weighing more than the average nine-year-old, despite the fact that she was already 5’3″. “I can easily say that experience triggered 20 years of body dysmorphia and disordered eating,” she says. “Shortly after that, I used to just
Odds are, you don’t regularly chat about your period in public. But on the anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper, people are less inhibited than they might be in real-life conversations. To figure out what people are saying about periods when they can hide behind anonymity, we looked at some of Whisper’s period-related data and confessions. For
We all know that being spooked by a pitch-black room is a common childhood fear. But by the time we become adults, we know, on a rational level, that there’s no reason to be scared when the lights are off. At least that’s what we tell ourselves when we get totally nervous in the dark.
