Evaluating the healthiest type of encased meat is sort of like ranking types of ice cream by the same standard. Because every nutritionist I spoke to quickly offered the same response: None of them. “They’re all so high in sodium, and the kind you find on supermarket...
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...
If it’s possible to feel like one giant human fart, vacation eating will do it. All it takes is even a couple days away from the comforts of home, without a steady supply of water or any remotely light snacks, no rhyme to meal times or reason...
There are, of course, certain cuts of steak that are healthier and leaner than others. The problem is that most of these leaner cuts are, sadly, less tasty, and therefore, less likely to appear on a restaurant’s menu. There’s also the fact that, according to dietitian Sarah...
According to WebMD, an apple a day does, in fact, keep the lab-coat wearing man who asks you to turn left and cough away. “Researchers from Cornell’s Food Science and Toxicology Department in Ithaca, N.Y., found that the antioxidant properties of one fresh apple were equal to...
If you’re a guy who’s ever had a UTI, chances are your first instinct was to get checked for an STI. But once you found out that it’s just a pesky urinary tract infection, you were instructed by nearly everyone in the close circle of friends you...
When I’m hungover, I crave one thing, and one thing only: Giant, steaming piles of greasy fast food. This is a problem, because I’m on a diet that doesn’t exactly allow me to binge on three burritos, two quesadillas and however many tacos I can stomach every time I...
In a phrase widely attributed to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (He never actually said this and it’s also not true anyway, but moving on). Point is, when it comes to working out,...
The average American consumes more than 23 pounds of ice cream every single year, which may help explain why obesity rates have hit an all-time high. Of course, reducing our intake isn’t an option—you can have my dipped cone when you pry it from my dead, sticky...
Summer, it seems, is the season for all the things that can potentially kill you. The sun? That gives you cancer. Lounging around? That gives you cancer. And that other staple of summer, grill-charred meat? Yeah, that’ll give you cancer, too. “Charring,” according to Alex Roher, M.D.,...
Sure, you’d like to have a six-pack. Who wouldn’t? But let’s be honest for a moment — it’s not gonna happen any time soon. To make those tummy muscles visible, you have to have, at most, seven percent body fat, and doing that is somewhat tricky when your idea...
The post-workout protein powder shake is a staple of gym bro culture. In fact, almost the moment a man gets into weightlifting, he also starts scouring Bodybuilding.com and Reddit forums for advice on the right protein supplements to take, and in which amounts. He stalks the aisles...
