If you’ve ever done a major high intensity workout, you’ll know the feeling: Your temperature suddenly goes atomic, exhaustion grips your limbs and a wave of nausea hits your gut like a tsunami. Your trainer hears your complaints and barks back, “That’s weakness leaving your body! Keep going!”...
It seems like we can’t go a month without hearing about some celebrity who dropped a bunch of weight by giving up alcohol. But for the rest of us beer-guzzling, vodka-shooting, wine-by-the-bag degenerates, is there any hope of shedding weight without having to do the unthinkable and...
It’s not uncommon to emerge from the most gluttonous time of year feeling a little puffy. Months of piling plates with holiday cuts of meat and carbs drenched in liquid fat finished off with baked sugar a la mode can distend a stomach like that.” However, your...
Sometimes, the “good” version of you — the one that successfully holds down a job, keeps a relationship together and maintains a semblance of a normal life — is eclipsed by a different one: Enter Drunk You. This is the you that thinks eight cheeseburgers is a reasonable dinner; that sees...
If you’ve never tended bar before, the process of ordering, consuming and paying for drinks warrants little thought. It’s what you do when you go out: You ask for a drink, someone makes it for you and then you pay for it. But for those of us...
So it begins — office holiday party season. (Even the movies say so.) To help you navigate yours, we’ve enlisted Terry Petracca, the hippest HR expert we know and the woman behind our biweekly ‘Go See HR’ column. Every day this week she’ll be answering one holiday party-specific question...
Working out around Christmastime sucks. Unless you live in Arizona, Florida or Hawaii, the weather is probably colder than a bucket of penguin doodoo, and even if you stay home instead of visiting family or in-laws, you’re out of your routine, feeling that sweet holiday laziness. Basically,...
There are two common ways to stay warm in winter: Bundle up until you feel like you’re wearing three sleeping bags, or just drink booze until you get your beer coat, an invisible force that miraculously keep you warm when you’re hammered. But does alcohol actually increase...
We were surprised to learn recently that, despite its status as a festive smooch-inducer, mistletoe is actually a highly poisonous parasite. Sexy! It also, however, has some medicinal benefits, which got us wondering about other holiday spices and trimmings. Turns out, there’s a lot more to this stuff...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn how long you should really wait before making a leftovers sandwich; find out what eating that much actually does to your body; and discover...
You’ve probably never considered there being an “order” to what you should eat on your Thanksgiving plate: If you’re anything like us, you just fling yourself face-first into a pile of food and try to inhale as much of it as possible, maybe pausing to chew every...
With nowhere to be the next day but at home, stuffing your face, Blackout Wednesday is the unofficial start of Thanksgiving Weekend: A night comprised of celebrating with friends, reunions and drinking until your brain is annihilated—so annihilated, in fact, that you don’t remember annihilating it. The...
