There are certain words or phrases you never want to hear come out of a doctor’s mouth: “You know, this is the first time I’ve ever tried this procedure”; “I’ve never seen one that color before”; “HOLY CRAP WAYNE, COME AND LOOK AT THIS!”; and of course, “Cancer.” The...
I’m one of those people who can’t sleep without my ceiling fan whirring on full speed above my bed (apologies to my chronically frigid girlfriend), so you can imagine my dismay when a recent string of articles suggested that sleeping with a fan on poses some significant...
Night sweaters can be divided into three categories: Men, women and children. “The reasons why people sweat at night is quite gendered,” says Rafael Reisfeld, a surgeon at the Center For Hyperhidrosis. But hold up: First, what the heck are night sweats anyway? According to the Mayo...
With temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees these days, there’s no noise quite as pleasing as the hum of an air conditioning system. But like all things that seem pure and good, there’s always a catch — and in the case of air conditioning, that catch can be death. Well,...
According to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control, federal guidelines recommend that we log at least 150 minutes of exercise per week. However, just 23 percent of U.S. adults are consistently meeting the guidelines. In the voice of Mr. Strickland in Back to...
You may have been told by some desperate parent, in an effort to make you eat your cruciferous vegetables, that broccoli is “the toothbrush of the colon.” In our ongoing efforts to answer every dumb question we’ve ever had, we checked in with our favorite food expert,...
I’ve written a lot about pizza, including why cold pizza is the best pizza, whether pizza for breakfast is healthier than cereal and if sausage on pizza is better for you than the crust. Clearly, I’m obsessed (or at the very least, infatuated) with pizza, but I’m also aware...
For the uninitiated, a vasectomy is a sterilization of sorts whereby a doctor cuts the vas deferens — the part of the male reproductive system that carries sperm from the testicles to the urethra — and ties or seals them to prevent your swimmers from entering into the urethra and impregnating...
Stop staring at your phone and just do the dang workout, bro! We get it: You’re a gym rat who can’t wait to tell your bros about your “grueling three-hour pump sesh.” Because you are the pump sesh, and the pump sesh is you. But here’s the...
America — it’s the land of opportunity. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We expect to live our lives how we want to, dammit, and for some people, that includes not only the right to bear arms, but the right to bare butt. You might...
Late last week, the CDC tweeted out a PSA to not reuse condoms: We say it because people do it: Don't wash or reuse #condoms! Use a fresh one for each #sex act. https://t.co/o3SPayRf9m pic.twitter.com/AwkPqE9YMl — CDC STD (@CDCSTD) July 23, 2018 And once we’d stopped facepalming...
Men spend an average of one hour and 35 minutes on the toilet each week, according to a recent study—that’s about 14 minutes per day. This should surprise no one, considering that 53 percent of guys get caught up staring at their phones while sitting on the...