Here’s a good reason to invest in (and actually use) a scale: According to the National Weight Control Registry, 75 percent of people who successfully lose weight (and keep it off) weigh themselves at least once per week. A 2012 study published in the Journal of Nutrition...
Ahh… the involuntary, thunderous sneeze. Or, sternutation, if you want to be pompous about it. It sneaks up on you without warning like an anatomical earthquake: Your lungs spontaneously fill with air, your abdominal and chest muscles compress like a vice, your eyes close tight and… Achooo!...
When you’re losing weight, some jerk will always tell you, “Oh, you didn’t really lose five pounds, that’s just water weight.” On the flip side, when you’re packing on the pounds, you’ll tell yourself that you’re, “Pretty sure it’s all water weight.” I submit it to you that,...
Are you a cracker? Do you like to crack? Is cracking your way of releasing tension after a long day of work? Well, fellow crack enthusiast who’s probably been told that too much cracking can lead to myriad health issues, here’s a quick anatomy lesson on what’s...
Here’s something you were probably never told as a teenager: If it’s exams week and you’re super-stressed trying to memorize scientific theorems or understand the allegory of the old man and the marlin, you can probably forget about using condoms when you have sex, because in all...
Does farting burn calories? We’re sorry to burst your bubble (so to speak), but simple common sense says that farting cannot possibly burn calories — especially not a whopping 67 calories per fart (as claimed by some — more on that later), which is around the number of...
On the one hand, you’re a reasonable person who’s well aware that too much of anything is bad for you. But on the other, reasonably speaking, if you don’t drink five cups of coffee you’re going to shrivel up like a slug before drowning in roiling, exploding...
The vet bills started pouring in almost immediately after my girlfriend and I adopted our dog. He came with some parasitic worms (gross, I know), which required a $150(ish) vet visit and a $50(ish) dewormer. Shortly after that, he came down with an ear infection, so the...
Eating before drinking is believed to be one of the best ways to avoid getting so drunk that you become the subject of a Lit song. But what and how much should you eat before boozing? First, it’s important to understand how a belly full of food...
The human body is filled to the brim with gallons of oozing substances that serve many varied and vital functions. This is something we’re all aware of on some level, and most of the time we’re perfectly happy to go about our day with all these liquids...
Juice is something of an anomaly. It generally contains healthy ingredients, like fruits and veggies, yet as we’ve seen time and again, the processes that these fruits and veggies undergo to become juice takes them out of the “healthy” category and into, at best, “meh?” For instance,...
No, you’re not going nuts — your toenails really do grow much more slowly than your fingernails. According to a study performed at the University of North Carolina, fingernails, on average, grow 3.47 millimeters a month. Toenails, on the other hand (or rather, foot), grow only 1.62...