Ireland and the humble potato have a lengthy, tumultuous relationship. In the 1700s, potatoes were extensively cultivated in Ireland — many sources even claim that the average Irish peasant consumed about 10 pounds of potatoes each day, which, life goals. At the time, potatoes were the ideal...
As anyone who’s ever experienced a post-bender hangover knows, booze does some gnarly stuff to your body: It breaks your heart, erases your memory, scrambles your brain, fills your stomach, and arguably worst of all, impairs your penis (like, come on, was that really necessary?) Amidst all...
Here’s a good reason to invest in (and actually use) a scale: According to the National Weight Control Registry, 75 percent of people who successfully lose weight (and keep it off) weigh themselves at least once per week. A 2012 study published in the Journal of Nutrition...
When you’re losing weight, some jerk will always tell you, “Oh, you didn’t really lose five pounds, that’s just water weight.” On the flip side, when you’re packing on the pounds, you’ll tell yourself that you’re, “Pretty sure it’s all water weight.” I submit it to you that,...
On the one hand, you’re a reasonable person who’s well aware that too much of anything is bad for you. But on the other, reasonably speaking, if you don’t drink five cups of coffee you’re going to shrivel up like a slug before drowning in roiling, exploding...
Eating before drinking is believed to be one of the best ways to avoid getting so drunk that you become the subject of a Lit song. But what and how much should you eat before boozing? First, it’s important to understand how a belly full of food...
Juice is something of an anomaly. It generally contains healthy ingredients, like fruits and veggies, yet as we’ve seen time and again, the processes that these fruits and veggies undergo to become juice takes them out of the “healthy” category and into, at best, “meh?” For instance,...
First there was the coffee trend that required a precise mixture of low-mold coffee beans, butter from grass-fed cows and a coconut oil extract made from medium-chain triglycerides. The elixir claimed to suppress your appetite, provide long-lasting energy and make your brain work better. More recently, there was CBD coffee,...
So you drank too much beer yesterday, and now you feel like a rubber chicken that’s been run over by Optimus Prime, who then proceeded to pour 100 pounds of cement directly into your surprisingly stretchy chicken mouth. This, basically, is you, trying to get anything done...
I have a bad habit of eating an entire bag of chips, an entire jar of salsa and some toast with peanut butter on an almost nightly basis, so I can totally relate to this recent Reddit thread that poses a very, very important question: “Rather than eating...
Asking, “Can you drink too much water?” might sound like a dumb question, considering every cell and organ in your body requires a steady stream of the stuff to function properly (the bottled water industry constantly reminds us of this). But the truth is, you certainly can...
You’ve no doubt heard the stories of pizzerias who never wash their pans, and the avid bakers who do likewise. They do (or rather, don’t do) this, the legend goes, because the years of flavor baked into those pans is imparted to each new batch of baked...