I’m a firm believer that the perfect dip-to-chip ratio involves more dip than chip, which means I’m also a huge proponent of double-dipping, triple-dipping and even quadruple-dipping (and then sticking my fingers in and licking them). Now, it should be said that while I’m a double-dipper, I’m...
Getting old sucks: You lose the hair on your head and sprout it from your ears and nostrils instead. But what is it about a bit of extra mileage that turns us into Chia Pets gone wrong? The answer lies within the hair growth cycle. Hair grows...
Rodney Hahn may be 58 years old, but it’s a pretty safe bet that if you’re reading this, he could destroy you in pull-ups. In 2015, Hahn smashed a Guiness World Record for the number of pull-ups completed in 24 hours by doing 5,337 of them. His...
Last month, doctors found a whopping 27 contact lenses stuck in a 67-year-old woman’s eye. For obvious reasons, this had a lot of contacts-wearers questioning their own bad habits when it comes to their lenses, so we reached out to Dr. Edward Bennett, O.D., American Optometric Association Contact...
When my editor approached me about listing an assortment of salts in order of how healthy they are, I assumed that he’d gone crazy. I honestly believed that there was no possible way to meaningfully rank various types of salt by how good for us they are....
It seems like any other day — you’re at work, going about your usual routine, uploading an early morning number two into the porcelain cloud. Everything seems like it’s going smoothly, but then you notice something scary: Blood when you wipe. And you didn’t even wipe that hard! A...
There are certain words or phrases you never want to hear come out of a doctor’s mouth: “You know, this is the first time I’ve ever tried this procedure”; “I’ve never seen one that color before”; “HOLY CRAP WAYNE, COME AND LOOK AT THIS!”; and of course, “Cancer.” The...
I’m one of those people who can’t sleep without my ceiling fan whirring on full speed above my bed (apologies to my chronically frigid girlfriend), so you can imagine my dismay when a recent string of articles suggested that sleeping with a fan on poses some significant...
Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators, so it’s no wonder sitting sedentary in a halogen-lit office is ruining the species. But it’s not just your lower back and general outlook on life slowly being crippled by your 9-to-5. It’s also your butt. Hemorrhoids. Irritation....
Night sweaters can be divided into three categories: Men, women and children. “The reasons why people sweat at night is quite gendered,” says Rafael Reisfeld, a surgeon at the Center For Hyperhidrosis. But hold up: First, what the heck are night sweats anyway? According to the Mayo...
With temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees these days, there’s no noise quite as pleasing as the hum of an air conditioning system. But like all things that seem pure and good, there’s always a catch — and in the case of air conditioning, that catch can be death. Well,...
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...
