Coronary heart disease—often simply called heart disease—can lead to a heart attack. A heart attack happens when a cholesterol-rich plaque bursts and releases its contents into the bloodstream. This causes a blood clot to form over the plaque, totally blocking blood flow through the artery and preventing vital oxygen and nutrients from getting to the heart. A heart attack can cause permanent damage to the heart muscle.
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If you’re a Peloton fan, you’ll love their latest offering: yoga. That’s right, the brand best known for its high-energy, interactive indoor and streaming cycling classes, and more recently their treadmill classes, is now ready to help you get Zen.
To start, there will be four live yoga classes taught each day by one of three instructors: Aditi Shah, Anna Greenberg, and Kristin McGee. Classes will range from 20 to 45 minutes, and will include a variety of styles, including Vinyasa flow, a vigorous power yoga, a restorative class, a basics class geared towards helping beginners build the foundation of a practice, and even guided meditation. Plus, a bank of yoga content that will be available anywhere, any time.
Studio classes for new members will start at $20, while the yoga programming will be included in current Peloton Bike, Tread, and Digital subscriptions ($39 and $19/month, respectively). And you can count on the signature Peloton teaching style with instructors interacting with both those in class as well as at-home yogis via strategically placed cameras throughout the room as well as a leaderboard. (FYI: Studio classes start today, but live and on-demand streaming won’t begin until December 26.)
“What I am really excited about is bringing the feeling of community into people’s homes, to give them an awesome yoga practice in their home, but with this added element of the boutique fitness experience which is not available to everyone, and I think that is going to be really incredible,” explained Greenberg.
And if the 30-minute flow geared toward prepping folks for Crow Pose (read: tons of hip openers!) I took yesterday with Greenberg, which was the very first classes taught and filmed at the studio, is any indication of Peloton Yoga Studio’s potential, then I’m pretty sure they are going to #namaslay it.
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The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired last night, and for most of us, we don’t see “fantasy” on the runway (as the company likes to call it). We see a group of women who look absolutely nothing like us. That’s why curve model Khrystyana Kazakova organized The Real Catwalk, a body-positive fashion show that took Times Square by storm this weekend.
Kazakova, a former America’s Next Top Model contestant, wanted to give women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds a place on the runway in response to the not-so-inclusive VS Fashion Show. The company has been facing backlash after Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of Limited Brands, which owns Victoria’s Secret, made some seriously insensitive comments in an interview with Vogue.
Razek said: “Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special… We attempted to do a television special for plus-sizes [in 2000]. No one had any interest in it, still don’t.”
We beg to disagree, sir. As we saw at The Real Catwalk on Saturday, there’s more interest in inclusive fashion than ever.
Kazakova invited people of all ages, genders, heights, weights, and skin tones to strut their stuff at the show through social media. There was no need for a hyper-competitive casting like what the VS models go through; all were welcome to join. In the end, over 200 people came out to participate in the flash-mob-style show.
Womenswear brands King Size, Swimsuits for All, and Woman Within donated outfits for the models, who were also treated to breakfast and mimosas before their debut.
Kazakova has put on The Real Catwalk events before, in both New York City and London, but this was by far the biggest yet. In a recent Instagram post, she wrote: “This love we are expressing is contagious!!! Every one of us is on our individual path of self-love and expression, and I am happy that this platform that we collectively created serves as a safe space and home for us to just be, celebrate our being.”
We’ve rounded up seven of our favorite shots from The Real Catwalk event this weekend. Check out the fierce photos here:
All photos by Holly Grace Jamili
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This story is part of Health’s #RealLifeStrong series, where we are celebrating women who represent strength, resilience, and grace.
Misty Diaz was born with spina bifida, but it wasn’t until she was in her 20s that she met another person with the condition. “I was going around thinking I was the only one who had this disability,” she says. Now at 30, the L.A.-based athlete travels around the country running races—and inspiring others with (and without) disabilities.
Spina bifida is a birth defect that affects the spine and spinal cord. In Diaz’s case, it damaged her L5 vertebrae. “It affected my walking, my growth, and my bladder,” she says. As a result, Diaz stands at just 4’4”, weighs 80 pounds, and uses crutches to get around. That hasn’t stopped her from completing 5Ks, 10Ks, half-marathons, and even extreme obstacle courses.
Two years ago, Diaz became the first adaptive athlete ever to finish the Red Bull 400, a 400-meter sprint up the ski jump at Utah’s Olympic Park in Park City. When she first heard about the race, in a video on Facebook, she knew right away she had to try it. Diaz began training her upper body with lots of rowing and lat pulldowns, so she could make it up the near-vertical incline on crutches. She reached the top in 35 minutes. In 2018, she shaved 10 whole minutes off her time.
Diaz wasn’t always an athlete. After her 28th–yes, 28th–surgery, a bad breakup, and a struggle with severe depression, Diaz was craving a big life change. She remembers thinking, “’I can either stay in this situation hoping for a different result, or I can take the [discomfort] that I’m going through and feeling, and I could try something completely different.'” That’s when she discovered fitness.
Diaz started with small, doable goals: Her first milestone was making it from her apartment to her mailbox. Then she wanted to walk down her entire block; then to the nearby beach. “I stayed consistent, and I was loud about my progress,” she says. “Positive energy fueled me to want to keep doing a little bit more.”
A little bit more eventually became a charity 5K walk. She showed up to the race in a purple tutu, red lipstick, and a collared shirt. “I had no idea what I was doing,” she says, “but I never once took into consideration that I had crutches. I started when everybody started, stopped when everybody stopped, and crossing that finish line was like the threshold of starting my life all over again.”
That first race inspired Diaz to sign up for a second one–and put a little more effort into training this time. “I had never been in a gym, but I got a gym membership,” she says. “You can’t just Google ‘how do you use a treadmill if you’re on crutches’–you’re not going to find anything,” she says. Stepping into a gym was overwhelming, but she tackled it the way she does any obstacle: Take things slowly, learn from what non-adaptive people are doing, ask questions, and use her problem-solving skills to figure out a way she can mimic the movements.
Being super-friendly didn’t hurt either. “I would just be like, ‘Hey guys!’” she says in a bubbly chirp. “I became friends with the gym manager who could see I had trouble reaching stuff.” The manager gave her guest passes so friends could come to work out with her, free of charge. “I was so grateful,” Diaz says. “Plenty of people would have given up on their first and second visit, but I found what worked for me.”
Her second 5K turned into more races, including half-marathons, and eventually obstacle races. Now, she says, she’s done 70 all over the world. Races give her a unique way to connect with other people who might usually be a little more cautious around someone with her condition. “People might be intimidated around me,” she recognizes. It’s one of the reasons her trademark red lipstick became such a racing staple. “It gave people an in, an ice breaker.” A compliment was an easy conversation starter, and she says she’s built racing friends off of a simple, “I like your lipstick.”
Thanks to the connectivity of social media, she’s made virtual friends around the world, too. Parents will contact her, inspired to race on behalf of their child with spina bifida. She also mentors kids with the condition. “I call them spina beautiful,” she says. “It was never my thing to be ‘the girl with spina bifida,’ but I just knew if I kept up the racing, slowly but surely I would start to uncover things about myself, and I might possibly be able to help other people.”
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“When I meet someone with spina bifida I want them to know that anything is possible,” Diaz says. “You can still accomplish anything you want to, you just might have to try a little harder.”
The superstar couple, who are also relaxing in Indonesia with their 2-year-old daughter Luna Simone, kicked off Saturday morning with a video on Instagram — taken as they all laid together in bed, shirtless.
“Hi everybody,” Teigen said as she shot the clip, showing Miles lying between her and Legend.
Teigen, 32, and Legend, 39, have been documenting the trip for their followers on social media since Thursday.
Earlier that day, Legend posted an Instagram photo of himself relaxing on a couch with his two little ones, showing Luna all smiles as Miles laid next to his dad.
“Babies in Bali,” Legend wrote in the post’s caption.
More photos of the kids came on Teigen’s Instagram Story, where she shared Legend holding Miles, Luna chowing down on “an exotic Balinese hamburger and French fries,” and Miles alone, making faces for the camera.
The vacation comes as Legend told PEOPLE that he and Teigen have been focusing on time with their children.
“There’s a lot of family days,” he told PEOPLE in June at an event for his new wine brand LVE. “We’ve been home a lot. We haven’t been working much at all… We just enjoy each other’s company.”
He and Teigen are also deep into the day-to-day tasks of caring for a newborn.
“A lot of it’s just the nuts and bolts of making sure Miles is fed. Making sure he sleeps well. Making sure we burp him. Making sure we change his diaper,” Legend said. “It’s just the practical everyday things of being a parent, and so we’re immersed in that time in his life right now.”
Of course, Teigen has always loved finding humor in those more “practical sides.”
The cookbook author — whose second title, Cravings: Hungry For More, drops in September — has never been shy about documenting feedings.
One breastfeeding session, in early July, had Teigen nursing a then-6-week-old Miles and Luna’s baby doll at the same time.
“Luna making me feed her babydoll so I guess I have twins now,” Teigen wrote alongside a silly photo of herself trying to acquiesce to her daughter’s demand.
More men are electing to go under the knife—to remove their breasts. Really. That’s according to new statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The stats confirm that there’s been a big uptick in the number of guys undergoing all kinds of cosmetic procedures, from liposuction to tummy tucks.
But the one that caught our eye states that the rate of male breast reductions has increased by 30% over the past five years. This cosmetic surgery treats a condition called gynecomastia, which causes men to have swollen breast tissue. The excess tissue can appear right behind their nipples, causing them to protrude, or it could affect the chest and make a guy look like he actually has breasts.
“Man boobs” is a funny term, but the condition is probably not a laughing matter to the men who have it, which is as high as 30% of all guys, according to one 2014 study. The cause can be hereditary and is often a hormonal imbalance; it can also be the result of obesity, taking meds that affect hormone production, or simply aging.
Why are more guys with gynecomastia hitting up cosmetic surgeons these days? “I think that there are many reasons,” Stafford Broumand, MD, a professor of plastic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, tells Health. Dr. Broumand says he’s seen an increase in his Manhattan practice at 740 Park Plastic Surgery. “One is plastic surgery is now more acceptable for men and women,” he says.
But also, there are more options available for those who want to be treated, he explains. These include liposuction, liposuction with removal of the breast glands only, breast gland removal with skin tightening, and a traditional reduction surgery that removes hanging skin, visible breasts, and breast tissue.
“Everything is increased with social media and people wanting to look good and people trying to be relevant in a young person’s game, where people are living longer and wanting to be in the workforce longer,” he says.
Though gynecomastia can happen at any age, Dr. Broumand says he tends to see two age groups in his practice: “Young men in their late teens and twenties and men in their fifties and sixties—that’s generally where you see the interest or the inquiry for breast reduction surgery.”
Before undergoing the surgery, Dr. Broumand says that a doctor will assess whether the gynecomastia is hereditary, hormonal, the result of weight loss or gain, or aging, so the root cause of the problem can be addressed.
The operation itself is typically successful, no matter which one a man opts for. “There’s relatively minimal downtime, and now you have a lifetime of a better existence,” he says.
Newborn babies usually grunt when learning how to pass stool. However, the grunting can sometimes be a sign of an underlying health issue, such as trapped mucus, gastroesophageal reflux, or irregular breathing. Here, we explore causes of newborn grunting, related symptoms, home remedies, and when to see a doctor.
