Winter is upon us, and that means one thing: an influx of socialising opportunities that you can screw up by taking someone you’re dating, and then proceeding to ditch them for three hours while you talk it up with all your pals, get hammered, and ignore them....
Welcome to the brave new world where even foods have their own version of the Marvel universe. Yes, you read that correctly: Foods can be super, too. Well… sort of, but we’ll get to that later. Superfoods — the aptly named category of foods that’s supposed to...
Asking, “Can you drink too much water?” might sound like a dumb question, considering every cell and organ in your body requires a steady stream of the stuff to function properly (the bottled water industry constantly reminds us of this). But the truth is, you certainly can...
You don’t need to drink very much, or even often, to see that alcohol gives with one hand and takes away with the other. Whatever booze offers in easy laughs, false bravado and unforgettable stunts will soon enough be offset by beer poops, hangovers and inexplicable drunk purchases. But we press on and...
So, on the third night of binge drinking, you looked at your sweaty reflection in that fourth shot of whiskey and thought, This isn’t working the same way it did two nights ago. Well, friend, you’re right — and you’re not alone (although you’re also not exactly in...
If, as George Bernard Shaw once said, “whisky is liquid sunshine,” hangovers are a meteor straight to the face. But how exactly does too much of our favorite alcoholic beverage add up to a throbbing headache, dizzying nausea and draining fatigue? Dr. Aaron White, senior scientific advisor...
The number of drinkers participating in the month-long alcohol detox known as Dry January has increased substantially in the last four years (over 3m in 2018) and more of these booze-free months are popping up to address the apparently ever-growing desire to take a momentary break from...
Most people, by the time they’ve hit their early 20s, have figured out that the faster they drink from that bottle of tequila, the faster they’ll be making mariachi noises into the nearest vomit-receptacle. We all know that slow and steady wins the not-puking race, but are...
With my wedding six months away, I decided it was time I shed some excess weight. For a short time, I attempted the OMAD approach—one meal a day—along with a daily four-mile run. This meant that every day around 3pm, I’d hit the pavement, come home, pace...
Just like the gas in your car, food you’re putting into your body is used as fuel, says nutritionist Sean Salazar. Unlike cars, though, people consume way more food than they need — anything extra gets stored in the body as fat . To get rid of this...
It’s been found time and again that a glass of wine is actually good for the heart. The problem is that most of us are unsatisfied with a single glass of Cabernet. Instead, we prefer to drink like we’re running from something (or all the things). We...
There are two common ways to stay warm in winter: Bundle up until you feel like you’re wearing three sleeping bags, or just drink booze until you get your beer coat, an invisible force that miraculously keep you warm when you’re hammered. But does alcohol actually increase...