The best gluten free meal delivery services don’t only eliminate gluten, they also prioritize high-quality ingredients and sustainable sourcing and packaging practices. There’s also enough variety on their menus to keep your palate happy so your gluten-free diet doesn’t feel like a sacrifice. A gluten-free diet is an eating plan that completely eliminates the protein, which is found in wheat, barley, rye, triticale, and contaminated oats. While there are more obvious sources, like breads and cereals, gluten is often hiding in packaged and processed foods, too....

While historically, many experts saw weight and obesity as the main issue, it’s now clear that’s far from the truth. “Obesity is just another marker of metabolic health; it’s not the cause,” says neuroendocrinologist Robert Lustig, M.D., and author of the upcoming book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. “It’s downstream of the metabolic problem; it’s not the metabolic problem itself.” That’s a pretty big issue considering metabolic dysfunction increases your risk of complications down the road, like heart disease, stroke, heart attack, diabetes, and more, Julie Foucher-Urcuyo, M....

Serious doubts about the widely used material started to surface over a decade ago, when people complained of headaches and dizziness after smelling the pungently chemical odor of their new PVC shower curtains. “We found that one new curtain on its own can release over 100 chemicals into indoor air, some of them persisting in the air for at least 28 days,” Schade, who is now a campaign director at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, tells mbg....

According to clinical psychologist Perpetua Neo, DClinPsy, we see this behavior in children between the ages of 2 and 6, who are going through something called the pre-operational stage, which is very egocentric. It’s to be expected in children, she notes, but for adults who are self-absorbed, “it’s almost like they never outgrew that stage—even if they have great scripts and can mask their self-absorption.” And even if a self-absorbed person may not qualify for the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), Birkel says, they can still have narcissistic tendencies like manipulation, controlling, and a general lack of empathy or concern for others....

No, a dry scalp is no small annoyance. And while the face and body tend to get most of our skin care attention, the scalp’s skin woes should be attended to with the same diligence. So now you may also be wondering how best to deal with it. So what’s someone enduring a dry scalp to do? You have options, several, in fact. Here, the best tips to relieve dry scalps: You have body oils, which tend to be a bit thicker and able to cover a larger surface area....

Psychiatrist Carl Jung was the first to come up with the concepts of “introvert” and “extrovert,” though he didn’t give a name for those in the middle of these two personality types—that was Kimball Young in the 1920s. “Almost all of us are ambiverts to some degree,” psychotherapist Ken Page, LCSW, tells mbg. All of us are located somewhere along the spectrum between introversion and extroversion, meaning we do have access to both sets of personality traits in varying degrees and forms....

According to Melissa Nieves, LND, R.D., MPH, of Healthy Meals Supreme, vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) is necessary for the synthesis of collagen. Specifically, certain enzymes depend on vitamin C to properly stabilize and cross-link collagen molecules2. The nutrient also supports collagen gene expression, which prompts collagen synthesis. And since vitamin C benefits collagen production both internally and topically2, you can enjoy the vitamin C in hibiscus by drinking or applying it....