While I highly doubt the Founding Fathers could even have come close to fathoming the blasphemous creations modern restaurants have concocted, America was founded on the (bogus) belief that meat promotes good health and indicates economic success. So what better way to commemorate this indulgent sentiment than with a gargantuan...
There are times in life when everything else — meeting a deadline, running urgent errands, drinking 17 beers — takes precedence over eating the bologna sandwich you packed for lunch. But what happens to your insides when you deprive them of a meal? For starters, when you...
The higher the SPF, the stronger the sunscreen — that’s how most of us think SPF works, right? And while that’s not entirely wrong, it’s also not the whole story. To keep us all in the know (and a little more protected as we cram in these...
A recent Austrian study confirms the indelible belief that an apple a day keeps the doctor away — especially when you cram the whole freaking thing, core included, down your throat. The researchers estimate the average apple contains a whopping 100 million beneficial bacteria, which may help with digestive disorders,...
Most mostly-happy couples can agree that 99 percent of all arguments, frustrations and relationship hardships revolve around where and what you’re going to eat. According to a report in the New York Post, the average American couple spends 132 hours a year deciding what to eat, and “a...
I know, binge-watching weird YouTube videos and eating chips until three in the morning is extremely important. But now you have to deal with the consequences, and those consequences come in the form of deep bags under your eyes. The good news is, in most cases, both...
Pop quiz, hotshot: What’s a hangnail? Some people use the term to refer to torn skin around their nail and cuticles. Others reserve it for nails that break, rip or split. In reality, it’s the former — but whatever you call it, the goal of treating hangnails...
If children had their way, you’d be building blanket forts, scaling trees and playing something called Four Square with them for approximately 14 hours a day. As a grown adult with a desk job, however, it’s so logistically unrealistic that if we gave in, we’d all lose our...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: What Snakes Have Taught Me About Squeezing the Most Out of Life How to Squeeze the Last Out of Summer How...
A couple weeks ago, I visited my dentist for a routine cleaning, and he recommended I replace my original silver-colored amalgam fillings with more contemporary tooth-colored ones. I admit, I was almost persuaded (but eventually decided that spending a few hundred bucks so people would stop noticing...
Some warning labels address activities that could pose a true danger to our health, like the grim images on cigarette packs. Others are more questionable, like the Parental Advisory Label program that used to indicate which CDs had explicit language (back in the days when we bought...
We are all aware, subconsciously, that the bathroom — that place we tend to spend a lot of time naked — is crawling with germs. Of course it is: It’s where you poop; it’s where you leave your grimy street clothes in a pile before leaping into...