Sometimes the smell from your trip to the toilet is so terrible that it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Unfortunately, other than changing your diet—e.g., decreasing the amount of meat in your diet—there’s not much you can do about the odour of your...
In the battle against the elements, it’s one of life’s cruel jokes that our lips, one of the most exposed areas of our bodies to the sun, wind and cold (let alone our penchant for idle talk, a salty snack or a chance at first base), is...
We’ve all got baggage, some more damaging than others. Sometimes your baggage remains hidden to the outside world, known only to your therapist or failed romantic conquests. Other times, you wear it right on your face. Dark bags or circles under your eyes can make you look...
Societies develop rules of etiquette for a number of reasons: To signal that you come in peace (in the case of handshakes), to embarrass you at the dinner table (the justification for dessert spoons and fish forks) or to keep those around you safe from whatever leaves...
So in a word, yes. Kaiser Permanente dermatologist Paradi Mirmirani says that not only is shampoo run-off enough to clean the rest of your body, but plain ol’ water does the job just fine by itself. “I often tell my patients that they don’t need to use...
Getting swoll. Doing work. Pumping iron. No matter what you call it, exercising can be tough on your body. There’s a certain degree of pain or discomfort while you’re working out, but the real burn is often felt in the days after your initial trip to the...
There are some gifts that can only be given from yourself, to yourself—like self-confidence, self-acceptance and self-love. And while you might not consider self-flatulence a gift, the truth is that if you’re going to be asphyxiated with a stinky fart, it’d better be your own stinky fart....
Joint Effort The human elbow is a hinge-joint system made up of three bones: The humerus, the radius and the ulna. The humerus starts at the shoulder socket, while the radius comes from the thumb-area of the wrist and the ulna from the little finger side. Those...
The gasses released when you fart are like apples: All it takes is a single bad one to spoil the whole bunch. Most of the gas that comes tooting out of your hind end, including carbon dioxide and methane, is odourless. But when even just a little...
Many of us grew up thinking that our tongue was like a four-piece band: Each section tuned to hit a single flavour note that, when combined, creates the sweet (and salty, sour and bitter) music of taste. That concept, while a fun idea, is inaccurate, because it’s...
Gum can stick to many surfaces—the bottom of your shoes, the underside of your desk and the locks of your flowing body hair (in even the most private of areas). But your digestive tract isn’t one of them. Some of the hygiene tips passed around the handball...
If your morning shave routine ends up looking less like the one in Key Largo and more like the one from Dumb and Dumber, don’t go running to the doctor raving about haemophilia—the explanation is actually quite simple. Your face is incredibly vascular near the surface, meaning...
