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...
According to a recent survey conducted by sleep tips website SleepZoo, nearly two-thirds of Americans have work-related stress dreams. “The findings aren’t surprising since people dream about what’s important to them,” Deirdre Leigh Barrett, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, told Today. “Work both occupies a huge...
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...
The “I wish I could be someone I’m not” market — known more commonly as self-help — is worth nearly $10 billion in the U.S., which means there are a lot of people out there who are desperately trying to change. Like a lot, a lot: One 2014 study followed its...
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...
There’s a popular saying: Before you diagnose yourself with depression, you should check to make sure you’re not just surrounded by jerks. The funny thing about it is that it’s wrong: Being surrounded by jerks is actually very stressful, and stress and depression are closely linked. What’s more,...
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...
When spirals occur in the real world—say, for instance, in cacti or croissants—no one stops to think, That succulent/pastry needs to be mindful, ignore those spirals and focus on a completely different succulent/pastry until it stops being a spiral. Obviously not: It’s only in terms of the...
