Attending a music festival is like running a three-day marathon, except rather than drinking plenty of water and getting enough sleep, you sprint the entire time, fueled by overpriced beer, pounding subwoofers and, well, “other stuff.” You leave feeling bruised, battered and with your pooping schedule hopelessly out-of-whack....
To grunt, or not to grunt? That’s the question new gym-goers might be asking themselves when preparing to lift a heavy weight. And according to recent studies, perhaps they should: It turns out, grunting may actually improve one’s ability to go the extra mile. The first and...
“Laser tattoo removal feels like burning oil straight from the frying pan,” says Marcus Lundqvist, a heavily-tattooed friend of mine (with an epic collection by world-famous tattooers). “I hate it.” Lundqvist knows what he’s talking about, since he’s currently suffering through the process of removing several regrettable...
Hemp has a reputation as the boring, sober cousin of the cannabis family. That’s because it contains low levels of THC — less than 0.3 percent — making it virtually impossible to get high from smoking or eating it. But hemp-based food products — particularly hemp seeds — have been donning their letterman jackets and...
Some foods were born best friends — salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, chocolate and caramel. Others have more recently become best friends — pineapple and pizza, mango and chili, bacon and jam. But since most of us don’t have the wisdom of a Michelin-star chef, we’re breaking down some...
South Korea is a hard-drinking country. On average, each member of its population drinks 12.3 liters (3.25 gallons) of alcohol per year — a fact that led to more than $8 billion in lost production, hospitalizations and early deaths in 2013 — and 13.7 shots of liquor per week. To put...
We all know that smoking is bad (mmkay): Tobacco kills more than seven million people each year, and nearly 900,000 of those deaths are the result of non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke. But what you might not know is that some smokable tobacco products are (kinda,...
“Whew! I’m tired!” Japanese anti-aging guru Koko Hayashi exclaims over Skype approximately 25 minutes into our 50-minute private face yoga session. While I’m personally not winded by any means, my face is admittedly strained. Hayashi, founder and certified face yoga instructor at Koka Face Yoga in L.A.,...
Kids tend to be fussy eaters. Case in point: And while there’s a biological reason for their pickiness — children are extra-sensitive to taste, smell and texture — the endless piles of leftover foods they create are frustrating and, for many, even guilt-inducing. “I know that I feel bad when tossing...
I have a tendency to drunk dial my local Chinese restaurant (or rather, the bastardized American version of a Chinese restaurant). I can’t help it: Booze makes me crave egg rolls and orange chicken every bit as much as it makes me crave deep and meaningful conversations...
There may come a day when you honorably decide to become an organ donor — not just as a dead vessel full of handy spare parts, but as an actual, living person. The need for such living donors has never been greater: They offer a life-saving alternative to waiting...
Penile cancer may be the one thing in the world I’d never wish on my worst enemy. Not only is it cancer, it’s a cancer that can result in the partial or even total removal of your penis: That’s pretty much every man’s bleakest nightmare. On the...