Conventional wisdom argues that whole-fat dairy products are less healthy than their low-fat counterparts. But because there’s no study on food that won’t be immediately contradicted by a different study, new findings published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition challenge this notion by suggesting that consuming...
Ruh-roh: Research published this week reveals that city dwellers are regularly inhaling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). What does this actually mean for you, a regular guy who breathes air? It means that your once easily-treatable infections may acquire the ability to survive antibiotic treatment—and eventually evolve into...
Most of us wear sunglasses for two reasons and two reasons only: To quit squinting and to look suave as heckin’ heck. But there’s one even better reason to wear sunglasses, according to Christopher Quinn, O.D., president of the American Optometric Association: To not go completely blind....
For some strange reason, many humans have become completely infatuated with beans, as demonstrated by the incredible 300,000+ people who follow a Facebook page called Things Full of Beans That Shouldn’t Be Full of Beans. (The account is exactly what the name suggests—photos of beans in peculiar...
I was recently informed that—despite generally being placed next to milk and yogurt at the grocery store—eggs aren’t actually dairy. Now, before that moment, I confess that I hadn’t really spent too much time wondering about the precise classification of our embryonic breakfast companions. But since that...
Having a headache may be the most clichéd not-in-the-mood excuse in existence for women wanting to avoid sex. But research published in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals that pain really does have a libido-busting effect on women—and, apparently, only women. To arrive at this conclusion, researchers injected...
A long time ago, one of our distant ancestors thought, I want to suck the thick white liquid right outta that cow-boob. Thousands of years later, not much has changed: Americans consume approximately 630 pounds of dairy products—including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream—per year. Whether these...
New research claims that eating directly before going to sleep might increase your risk of developing either breast or prostate cancer (depending which you own), an unfortunate development considering my penchant for gorging on peanut butter pretzels moments before passing out. Specifically, the research found that having...
I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that my booze stash consists of a half-empty bottle of two-year-old vodka in the freezer, a random assortment of maybe three beers in the fridge and a cheap bottle of red wine that was opened at some unknown point in time on...
We’ve officially entered into flip-flop season, and if you’re planning on baring your feet for the world to see, take heed: If those babies aren’t in good shape, people will be very, very upset. Look, I get it. Your feet have been confined to thick socks and...
I spend every workday bouncing between feeling like I just shotgunned a gallon of crack water and feeling like I need a month-long hibernation period (normally only about an hour apart). According to science, this isn’t a bipolar disorder, but simply the fact that I’ve been drinking...
Ever seen your tongue under a microscope? If not, take a long, hard look—if you dare! It’s weird, it’s creepy and, according to dentist Michelle Ashcraft, it’s the “perfect environment for odor-spreading bacteria,” and absolutely needs a regular scrubbing. To explain why, she took us on a...