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CONTENTS F E AT U R E S
10 Embarrassing Fitness Questions
Find answers to the questions you never want to ask
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Catalina Island
Find out if Catalina Island could be your next vacation spot
14 Finding A Healthy Sugar Balance 55 Fitness Goals
A photo spread that will get you moving
Helpful tips for kicking those sugar cravings
16 The Mediterranean Diet Could this diet be right for you?
31 Diet Culture Consumes Us Are we obsessed with perfection when it comes to dieting?
28 Hemp Vs. Cannabis
Learn how hemp and cannabis could benefit your health
20 Health Breakfast Bagels
Get new, healthy ideas to make your breakfast less boring
50 Fitness Fashion Roundup
24 Health & Fitness Gadgets Find useful gadgets that benefit your workout experience
Motivate your fitness goals with fashionable sports wear
18 Pepper: The Body Positive Bra
A bra company tailored for small breasts
12 Valentine’s Day Gifts
Discover the best and worst gifts to give your honey
35 Lottabody Hair Care
See if Lottabody’s products could strengthen your curls
40 Catalina Island
Find out if Catalina Island could be your next vacation spot
53 Book Review: The
WHOLE30 Slowcooker
Healthy meals to try out in your slow cooker
44 Book Review: Change
Bites
How gradual changes in your diet can make changes stick
45 Book Review: Vegan On A Budget
Yummy vegan meals that are easy on the wallet
46 Fitness Guru Janine Delaney
Janine’s secrets to a healthy body and mind
28 Hemp V Cannabis
Learn how hemp and cannabis could benefit your health
37 Fitness App Roundup
Discover your new favorite fitness app
32 Dieting With Your Sweetheart
Learn why you should have date nights at the gym
34 Is Exercise Bad For Your Teeth? Could exercise have negative side effects?
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Editor’s Letter ‘Tis the season to get in shape in order to look and feel great! With that in mind, we feature Janine Delaney, who is the “Jump Rope Queen” known for her family-friendly workouts. She is making an impact on women across the country, becoming their online inspiration as a mother and career woman. Along with her, we feature a host of clean-eating diets, cookbook reviews, and healthy lifestyle tips. This is our first special edition for fitness, and we tried to make it distinct by even including gadgets and technology that could help with your workouts goals. One such app we reviewed incentivizes people with money, so you can bet against a friend or in a group and win as you lose weight. From having your own personal trainer on an app to being able to work out wherever whenever, we’ve reviewed some of the latest apps for you. Similarly, our fashion features include the latest in fitness and workout apparel. Perhaps the main challenge to attaining fitness goals is having the motivation to get started or remain consistent. Thus, we discuss ways to keep you motivated before, during
and after your diet or workout program. While it’s always best to decide to eat right and exercise prior to the onset of illness or physical restrictions, there is no time like the present. We can’t undo the past and are not guaranteed the future, but we can do something today to improve the way we physically feel. Hopefully, this issue will inspire you to do just that. Take hold of what you do have now and try to make it the best possible outcome. Listen to your bodies, as no amount of expert advice is more important than the signals and feedback your own body provides. The goal with this issue is to become more in-tune with the thing that has to support your lifestyle for years to come: your body. As always, we ask that you share the magazine with family and friends, especially this issue, because it is specially-designed with your longevity in mind. Enjoy,
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FREELETICS Emblazoned across the shipping package, “Quitting is not an option” is how those who order Freeletics will be greeted. Freeletics is a new sports trend that combines high intensity workouts with running. Freeletics Wear engineers apparel and gear to meet the intense workout demands of what they call the “Free Athlete” before, during and after their Freeletics workout. The apparel is anit-static, machine-washable designs that come in both grey and black styles. The FreeKnit, grey tank top priced at $39.90, and the Anytime shorts are also $39.90. The athletic line also includes gloves, hoodies, caps, and tights.
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The WHOLE30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Freedom BY ANNETTE JOHNSON
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hole30 is a 30-day diet that eliminates all grains, legumes, dairy, added sugars, and processed foods, and replaces them exclusively with fruits, vegetables, meat and fish. The founders of Whole30, Melissa and Dallas Hartwig, apparently realizing that prepwaring these meals would be a challenge, wrote this book with 150 slow cooker and Instant Pot recipes. According to the authors, the foods that you’re asked to eliminate completely are “foods that scientific literature” and their clinical experience have deemed “the most commonly problematic in one of four areas: cravings, metabolism, digestion, and immune system.” The diet is said to improve and even cure some medical ailments, including asthma, high blood pressure and depression. While eliminating alcohol for 30 days may not present a problem for those who, like me, are social drinkers, but avoiding sugar in all forms was a challenge. Not until you start studying, not just reading, food labels do you realize that most everything has some form of sugar. The other challenge, at least for me, was eating so much meat. I had recently been diagnosed with the onset of gout, so I was told to reduce my intake or avoid meat, especially seafood. I was basically left with eating fruits and vegetables, and always feeling hungry. Thank goodness, nuts like pecans were allowed. The book is filled with great salad and stew recipes along
with beautiful pictures as motivation. The only challenge is that some of the ingredients will require some hunting, including the coconut aminos, harissa or Red Boat fish sauce. My suggestion to combat this would be to go through the book and gather all the less widely accessible ingredients before beginning the diet. My main suggestion in organizing the book would be that it should be organized by meal, such as breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. It would then be more practical for daily use rather than special meals. Other than that, the authors have done a phenomenal job in providing recipes and resources, such as people (partners and coaches) and places (companies), that can assist (Whole30-approved) in your dietary success. The diet does indeed provide health benefits, such as increased energy. I’d have to visit my doctor to tell you about the complete reversal of arthritic inflammation. From the looks of it, however, I have had no other flare-ups of inflammation, which was becoming a consistent issue prior to the diet. At the very least, I would recommend this book to those who suffer from food-related allergies and other ailments. Food can be our medicine if we know what works best for our bodies. Consider the Whole30 as the beginning of that journey. Febr uar y 2 0 1 9 | H ERS M ag az i ne 53