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THE NATURAL GUIDE TO HEART HEALTH pg. 35-47

PALETTE PLAY

ADD LIFE TO ANY ROOM WITH NEUTRAL SHADES

LISA EDELSTEIN

ARE HORMONES AFFECTING YOUR THYROID HEALTH? PM42709013

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BALANCING SELF-CARE AND HER CAREER

WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK

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CONTENTS EARTH ISSUE 2017

In every issue 6

Editor’s Letter

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Contributors

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Balanced Living

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Giveaway

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Eco Chic

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Grocery Basket

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Inspired Living

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Horoscope

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Departments BEAUTY & FASHION 16

Get the Look

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Runway Ready

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Primed and Protected Safely soak up the sun

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Up to Hue Home hair colouring tips

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Blue Monday

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Beauty Academy

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HEALTH

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Health News

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Upcoming Ingredient Coconut Aminos

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Heart Health Buyer’s Guide

❯ 36. Take it to heart ❯ 38. Degenerative Diseases ❯ 40. Atherosclerosis ❯ 42. Oxidative Stress ❯ 44. Hypertension ❯ 46. Metabolic Syndrome

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Fibre 101 How much do you know about fibre

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A Thyroid Story Your hormones and thyroid function

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We’ve Got Your Back Home solutions for back pain

COVER STORY 60

Work In Progress Lisa Edelstein on personal growth and healthy living

FOOD 66

Vivid and Vibrant Bright and light recipes for the summer

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What’s In Your Fridge Dvira Ovadia

YOUR LIFE 76

Palette Play Use neutrals in your home

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Travel Palm Beach, FL

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THE PASSION OF BALANCED LIVING®

CLOSE TO MY HEART

Founder and Thoughtsmith Olivier Felicio Celebrity Guest Editor Valerie E. Vasquez Content Alchemist Cayla Ramey West Coast Entertainment Director Bonnie Siegler Word Jedi Corrina Mosca

I’ve always been obsessed with food. In fact, I made my first turkey dinner when I was 16 years old, complete with stuffing and mashed potatoes. Throughout my childhood and teen years, I could eat whatever I wanted to and never gained an ounce.

My fondness for food was also the reason I started cooking; I love feeding people as much I love eating.

It wasn’t until I was 19 that I realized I needed to fix my eating habits. The tipping point? A one-year, 50-pound weight gain after my high school graduation.

However, my wanting to change wasn’t so much about how I looked, but more importantly, how I felt. Obesity and heart disease run rampant in my family, and I knew this was the start of something that could get out of control.

I knew that I had to break the cycle of my unhealthy eating habits, and I wanted to help keep my family on track, too. The first thing to go was candy, which wasn’t difficult: I only ever ate it because it was there. Next was the soda. French fries and mayonnaise were much more of a struggle—I couldn’t live without them.

Then, I cut my portions in half, ate more throughout the day, and stopped eating five hours before bedtime. Working out at least three to five times a week also helped—I lost 40 pounds in one year.

One main tenet of my journey to health was learning how to take care of my heart. After watching my dad suffer a mild heart attack when I was 18, I knew I needed to take action. If you’re looking for a resource to optimize your own heart health, you’ll find it in this issue’s Buyer’s Guide on page 30.

My main message to you: you have one body, so treat it the way you want to feel. Everything I did to get healthy is nothing new—it’s just plain common sense.

Actually doing it is the tricky part. Now I can tell when I haven’t hydrated my body enough; I can also sense when I’ve eaten too much meat. After omitting beef from my diet for four months last year, I felt amazing, but I went into that phase knowing it was temporary. However, I can now easily follow a three-day vegetarian diet full of fiber-rich dishes—like the recipes found on page 66—and love it.

Eating right requires a lot of self-control for me, and I’ll admit—it’s not easy.

What I’ve come to learn is that our bodies are constantly changing. Listen to your body when you feel it changing. Giving yourself what you need can set you on a great path to healthy success.

Valerie E. Vasquez

Valerie E. Vasquez received praise on FOX TV’s cooking series, My Kitchen Rules, where she combined her Mexican and Italian background with her innate talent to create new, healthy recipes.

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PROGRESS LISA EDELSTEIN ON PERSONAL GROWTH AND HEALTHY LIVING

BY BONNIE SIEGLER

I think once you stop considering yourself a work in progress, you die.

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isa Edelstein isn’t the doctor she portrayed for seven years on the popular TV drama House, and she is not the divorced, middle-aged woman she currently depicts in Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Yet, Edelstein does possess the feisty, independent streak both on-screen characters possess.

“To be this age [50], and playing the lead of a romantic dramedy—Abby McCarthy—who is allowed to be sexual and even sexy. A character who is well dressed, engaged in the world, celebrated, and on a road of self-discovery,” relates the actress and playwright. “All these things didn’t exist when I started in this industry. The show is about a woman in mid-life whose life is suddenly and radically changing.”

Edelstein’s passion for change led to her 2014 marriage. “Every new phase of life is born out of accomplishments and rife with new challenges. I try and stay willing to participate with energy and focus, with joy for what I do and with a ton of gratitude for still being here.”

Edelstein grew up in a traditional Jewish family, but began to make her own distinctive choices early on. Thirty-seven years ago, she embraced vegetarianism—never to look back. “My husband is vegetarian-ish,” she says with a big smile. “He does it for a while, then reverts back to eating a broader diet. Then he does it again. At home, we are vegetarian.”

Throughout her life, Edelstein has been in forward motion, giving credit to and remembering some of her early childhood influences.

One was her love for animals. “I was raised in a kosher household, the rules of which don’t apply much to me anymore as I don’t eat any animal. What it did leave me with was a deeply felt superstition that nothing I don’t believe in eating should touch my dishes and cookware. It is slightly crazy, I admit, but it’s important to me.”

So, while her on-screen characters might display stressed out days and nights, Lisa in real life is a committed vegetarian who finds happiness in life’s daily routines and a simple nighttime ritual of “a hot bath and washing my face slowly—sometimes I read. I just try and slow down.”

She doesn’t seek out fad diets or the newest and craziest workout to keep her figure in check. This actress likes taking over her Los Angeles kitchen and creating meals with some of her favourite spices.

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“I like playing around with spices and flavors. I love a good cookbook for inspiration. I tend to lean towards Asian flavors— lemongrass, star anise, ginger, curry—but it changes with my mood. Ginger, which is healing in many ways, is delicious. As a vegetarian, the willingness to explore is really important. It makes for a more diverse diet.”

Lisa takes her own and her family’s health seriously; however, she’s not fanatical about it. “I’m the cook at home, although I’ve been off working this last year.” Admittedly, this will make her a rusty chef when she takes up kitchen residence again.

Preferring to get her daily intake of vitamins through nutritional eating, Lisa avoids cane sugar and processed foods, opting for whole, organic ingredients. Go-to snacks include “carrots and hummus, rice crackers and raw almond butter, and always fresh fruit.” In her home, nutritional staples are greens of all kinds, yams and sweet potatoes, legumes, squash, tofu, tempeh, miso.

“I recently flew home for five days and my husband got the flu.

I made him my favourite vegetarian version of Jewish chicken soup—spicy Thai lemongrass curry soup. It cures everything!”

Even though Lisa has an eye-popping figure that looks as good in jeans and a tee as in a designer gown, the actress surprisingly does not go for extended periods of rigorous exercise anymore.

Edelstein doesn’t need a flashy exercise trend or two to keep herself content and on an even keel. While she was an ashtanga yoga devotee for many years, Lisa now states, “As I got older it became a bit too hard on my body. It’s there when I need it, in moment of stress, to just reconnect with the primary senses of movements and breath.”

Nowadays, Lisa keeps it short. “Usually between 35–40 minutes because I find that if I work too hard, I have a set-back. I have to recognize pain as the warning it was meant to be and not as something to push through anymore.”

Life has come together very nicely for this former New York City party girl who displays a sincere, sensitive confidence, mixed with intelligent fragility and thoughtfulness, with an acceptance of life’s contradictions. She still considers herself a work in progress.

“I think once you stop considering yourself a work in progress, you die. You point to one clear thing about myself and I can point you to a part of myself that contradicts it.” VM

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