Lucy Danziger, True to my SELF, SELF Magazine
By Lucy Danziger, True to my SELF, SELF Magazine Last updated: Mon Oct 5, 2009 12:11pm PDT-
(No, not willpower...but another kind of thinking.) Just saw an email that made me stop (before I hit the delete button as usual) and read the study, the blog, and then I thought: This one is worth keeping, even passing on. It's about why the Mediterranean diet appears to work, and what its most powerful ingredient may be: positive thinking!
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DO WE RETOUCH? YES!
Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? with the answer: Yes. Of course we do retouching (though it's technically not Photoshop, but that is…
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OK! magazine put a picture of Jessica Simpson running on their most recent cover with the line: "How I lost 10 pounds in 10 days!"
Coupla problems...I thought the picture looked familiar and lo and behold, it's two years old—and we ran it in SELF (over a year ago!) in a piece about stars at their SELFiest. So, not exactly the "after" picture OK was making it out to be. More like the "before". (And before what? We think she looks beautiful, with or without the curves and the high-waisted jeans that were so famously deemed unflattering.)
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You're not getting older, you're getting better: That's the news from the birthday beat (and since we all have them, we might as well make peace with the next one coming up). Here is what I learned about getting older as I edited SELF this month. Read More »
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Matt and I bonded over biking. He's back on the road and I say: Stay safe out there! No more crashes.
Everywhere I go, people tell me they saw me on the Today show last week, talking about the dangers of certain generic drugs.
Now I don't want anyone to be alarmed about a generic pain med or something that you can save money on OTC, but if you're on a specific Rx and you have a reaction to the generic, we at SELF want you to know you can ask your M.D. to write a prescription for the brand-name drug and insist on being offered that.
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Friday is National Bike to Work Day and I want YOU to try it. If Friday doesn't work, it can be any day—it's actually Bike to Work Month, so you can do it whenever your schedule allows. I tried it this morning and loved it. Read More »
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You will all be relieved to know that my foot is better and now I can help YOU with your foot problems, too, since it's as simple as using a little ball to massage the sole. I had a visit from Polly Demille yesterday from the esteemed Hospital for Special Surgery here in NYC, and she brought with her this cute little pouch of rubber balls of three different sizes and she taught me a method called MELT that uses the balls to massage your foot and help you release the tension there. It was fascinating to see how these balls, when used as pressure-point release therapy, really worked to relax and soothe my feet, especially my plantar fasciitis. Read More »
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First stop: Check out the new 5-Star Day widget.
OK, I turn on my computer and Yahoo comes popping up—I love this homepage since it always refreshes and tells me cool facts and useful items and yes, breaking news. It's where I learn about things like Ashton's Twitter surpassing the 1 million followers mark and beating CNN and the release of the ship captain and other news. And then I also see (every now and then) my own content from SELF, like how to eat to be healthier and lose weight. Well, I have a new application that, while not at an Ashton level of popularity, is certainly worthy of a gander: It's the SELF 5-Star Day, and it's so easy to use that you can lose weight no matter what you like to do for exercise or how you want to define your own healthy diet.
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She swung by the office yesterday and told us about all her amazing projects from HSN to her new skin products (the woman has the MOST gorgeous complexion) and the fact that she is writing a book and oh, yes, almost forgot, just opened a new school in Kenya for kids in need. Serena had beaten her big sis, Venus, the night before at Madison Square Garden, and I love how sweet and soft-spoken she is, as well as beautifully put together, the hair very Marilyn, the body strong and curvy and totally hot (yes, I can say that!) and her creative mind is always churning. Read More »
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Last night I was interviewed by Access Hollywood about Jessica Simpson. Yes, we would love to have her for the cover and were in discussions about shooting her, but she couldn't find the time and we decided it was best to wait till her schedule abated and we could do it right, in a sunny, beautiful place, with her feeling relaxed and happy.
Jessica's last cover for SELF, in September 2007
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