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YOUR WELLNESS SPA Healing News A FIVE-POINT PLAN Mindful Cuisine Looking for some new healthy recipes to share with coworkers and clients? First, check out DAYSPA's series of "Taste" pages from previous issues on dayspamagazine .com. Then, get ahold of Miraval's Sweet & Savory Cooking (Hay House, 2014), a collection of low-fat, low-sugar and nature-embracing dishes from the experts at Miraval Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona, executive chef Justin Cline Macy and pastry chef Kim Macy. The book features more than 100 recipes from soups to desserts, all designed to satisfy the soul and the stomach without weight gain or other adverse effects. "Miraval's Sweet & Savory Cooking captures the essence of Miraval mindfulness and its integration into one's diet," notes CEO Michael Tompkins. The authors also share tips on kitchen safety, buying and using the best cooking equipment, and how to build a pantry of ingredients that will yield countless delicious and healthful options. 50 DAYSPA | FEBRUARY 2014 Considering Beauty Beauty experts have known for decades that a woman's makeup choices make a statement to the world about who she is: serious, silly, daring, perfectionistic or devil-may-care, to name just a few traits. Sometimes the statement is intentional, and sometimes simply revealing. Now, recent evidence shows that these messages can be complex and have far-reaching effects for makeup wearers. The study, led by Harvard University assistant clinical professor of psychology Nancy Etcoff in cooperation with researchers from Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, sought to determine what conclusions are drawn about women based on the level and type of makeup they wear. (It should be noted that the study was paid for by Procter & Gamble, whose products include makeup lines.) An ethnically diverse group of 25 women aged 20 to 50 were photographed in several incarnations: barefaced, in a natural look, a professional look and a glamorous look. The photographs were shown to 149 adults (men and women), who were given a split second to observe each photo and make a snap judgment about that woman. By and large, the adults judged those women whose eyes and lips "stood out" against their skin as more competent than their barefaced versions, seeming to lead to the conclusion that women who wish to command more attention and/or respect should whip out the lipstick and eye shadow more often. This, of course, flies in the face—so to speak—of many highly competent, powerful and successful women who rarely break out the mascara. Notes Stanford University law professor and author of The Beauty Bias (Oxford University Press, 2010) Deborah Rhode, "The quality of my teaching shouldn't depend on the color of my lipstick or whether I've got mascara on. I'm against our preoccupation [with beauty], and how judgments about attractiveness spill over into judgments about competence and job performance. We like individuals in the job market to be judged on the basis of competence, not cosmetics." Others feel, however, that as long as makeup does have an effect on a woman's public image, taking full control over it is an empowering thing. Says University of Texas at Austin economics professor Daniel Hamermesh, "I'm an economist so I say, why not? I think we'd be a fairer world if beauty were not rewarded, but it is." ©ISTOCKPHOTO.COM; Acupuncture for weight loss? Many have claimed it, but a new study conducted by Korean researchers and published online in Acupuncture in Medicine gets specific: auricular (ear) acupuncture may be effective in reducing body fat, when administered by stimulating five acupuncture points on the outer ear. For one group of 30 participants, practitioners inserted 2mm-deep acupuncture needles in five specific points on one outer ear: shen-men, spleen, stomach, hunger and endocrine. The needles were held in place with surgical tape for one week, then the other ear for a week, alternating as needed. Another group of 30 received needles in the hunger point only, and still another group of 30 were given "sham" treatment, in which the needles were removed immediately after insertion. All participants were weighed and measured at the start, middle and end of treatment. At the conclusion of the study, the first and second groups had demonstrated an approximate 6% reduction in BMI compared to no reduction in the sham group.