A Healthy Bite: Jada Pinkett Smith

“When I walked out there and disrobed, I felt like a queen. I felt like the world was mine. Like there was this power just emanating from my person. Like there was nothing I couldn’t do.” - Jada Pinkett Smith on posing nude for Essence magazine’s July cover. The actress said that choosing to bare it all was not about vanity but was her way of teaching younger women (especially her daughter) that our bodies should be celebrated. Jada’s hope was to send a message of “freedom and self-acceptance” through her choice to bare it all. Do you have a healthy body image like Jada?

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Video of Heidi Legally Separating From Spencer, Tom’s Les Grossman Movie Rumor, and Will Talking Workout

Heidi Montag surrounds herself with a team of bodyguards as she files for legal separation from Spencer Pratt, Katie Holmes turns up in Las Vegas while Tom Cruise plans a Les Grossman movie, and Will Smith says he and Jada Pinkett Smith practice tai chi together. Watch it all on PopSugar Rush now!

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Study Claims Dairy Fat Is Good For Heart

I can’t remember the last time I had whole milk, or even yogurt that wasn’t skim. Since dairy products are a huge source of saturated fat, I usually save my full-fat dairy indulgences for cheese and ice cream. But a new study is challenging my presumptions and suggesting that dairy fat might actually be a good thing. The study’s results show that having higher levels of milk fat in the body may lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol levels, or decrease the chances of a heart attack. A team of doctors in Sweden looked at the levels of dairy fat in just under 1,000 individuals that researchers divided into two groups - heart attack patients and otherwise healthy people. What they found was that participants who had the highest levels of milk fat were actually at a lower risk of developing heart disease - for women the risk decreased by 26 percent. The study also suggests that eating more full-fat dairy may actually help us live longer lives. Before you go crazy in the cheese section of your market, keep in mind this is an early study. From here, doctors are going to determine how much credit can be given to the attributes of dairy fat vs. lifestyle factors. For now, continue to get about 30 percent of your daily calories from fat, and limit your intake of saturated fats.

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How Jada Pinkett Smith Keeps Her Love Life Hot

Jada Pinkett Smith is no stranger to sharing details about her love life; with 12 years of a successful Hollywood marriage under her belt, she probably has some healthy secrets we could all use. She told Shape magazine that she is a firm believer in kegels . Pinkett Smith proclaims doing these simple pelvic floor exercises “keeps the sex hot.” Learn how to tone up down there when you read more. If you practice yoga, you might refer to the pelvic floor (PF) as the mula bandha . The easiest way to find the correct area to activate is to stop the flow of urine when emptying your bladder. Then try to find that same sensation when not going to the restroom. A little more advanced variation is to create the sensation of the entire pelvic floor pulling up. The muscles of the pelvic floor fill in the space between your pubic bone (front of your pelvis), your coccyx (tail bone), and your sit bones (ischial tuberosities in anatomy lingo). The overall shape is similar to a kite and contains many different muscles. To activate the pelvic floor you want to imagine those aforementioned bones coming closer to one another as the muscles attached to them activate and pull up - like a sheet being held by four corners billowing up as the corners move toward the center. It helps to think of the PF as similar to your diaphragm, which moves up and down as you inhale and exhale. Here is a subtle and simple exercise that you can do right now. It is so subtle that no one will know you are exercising your nether regions. On a four-count inhale, pull the PF up and in toward the center line of your body. Then release slowly on a four-count exhale. Allow your pelvic floor to completely relax in between repetitions. Repeat five to 10 times and throughout the day. Aside from beneficial side effects in the bedroom, a strong pelvic floor provides support while running and lifting weights too. After all, it is part of your core.

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