Do men fight each other just so they can feel less guilty about hugging it out after? It’s a question that came up recently when I was watching the episode of Sex and the City where Big and Aiden quickly go from wrestling in the mud to sitting across...
To state the obvious, no one likes getting sick. You’re either freezing, boiling hot, vomiting profusely or rushing to the toilet like your drink got spiked with a weapons-grade laxative. If you’re really unlucky, you’ve got all four symptoms, slowly but surely reminding you why death is the...
Page Kent is already drenched in sweat. Getting through airport security is a headache for every flier, but for Kent, it’s the seventh circle of hell. He’s barely got his shoes off, but he can feel the TSA side-eying him. They probably think he’s hiding something, he...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Everyone should eat more vegetables. But if navigating the produce section gives you anxiety, don’t worry: I asked nutritionist David Friedman, author of Food Sanity: How to Eat in a World of Fads and Fiction, to help me...
Welcome to the brave new world where even foods have their own version of the Marvel universe. Yes, you read that correctly: Foods can be super, too. Well… sort of, but we’ll get to that later. Superfoods — the aptly named category of foods that’s supposed to...
If you’ve ever spent more than 20 minutes inside a gym, you’ll have noticed the wide variety of body shapes huffing and sweating alongside you. You’ll have seen hulking bench-pressers with pectorals like car doors, for example, alongside spectrally thin treadmill-pounders or office workers rowing against the...
Recently, a colleague shared a story of going to the doctor for a cold and being asked if he was in a relationship. Puzzled, he answered yes but prompted the doctor to explain why. The answer: New couples are swapping a lot more than saliva and awkward...
We jogged to the gym together. We spotted each other on the bench press and at the squat rack. We pushed each other to go a little heavier on the weights, or a few more reps. We made fun of other guys’ bad lifting form. We even...
A public display of affection — more commonly referred to as PDA — is a bit like the smell of a fart: If it’s your own, it’s inexplicably pleasant. If it’s someone else’s, it stinks of crap. In 2016, researchers looked into why people are so repulsed...
It’s a new year, and that means, for many people, finally getting into shape. (No, really, we mean it this time, right?) But for those looking to lose a significant chunk of their body weight — like triple digits — what does that really do to your brain and...
Fish is, in general, healthier than meat, since it contains more omega-3 fatty acids, which prevent heart disease, and less artery-clogging saturated fat. But among fish, which are the healthiest? I asked Dana Hunnes, senior dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, to help me rank...
The year 2019 had scarcely begun when a few lucky fans ran into Lionel Messi, arguably the top soccer player in the world at the moment. He was all too happy to stop for a few selfies — selfies that conclusively showed he was driving without a...
