Last Easter, one popular candy surprised people by turning their poop from brown to a vibrant pink. Fun! While color variance in your stool might normally be the sign of life-threatening internal bleeding, it can also be something much more benign — you just ate the wrong thing. Or better...
When we’re in a pinch, expiration dates oftentimes become recommendations, rather than rules. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? We asked nutritionist Carolyn Dean, who has extensive experience treating irritable bowel syndrome and other bowel diseases, to find out what happens when you eat that...
What do Donald Trump, Napoleon, Leonardo da Vinci and a giraffe have in common? Aside from having friends in high places, they’ve also each been reported as requiring less than five hours sleep a night. In fact, according to this infographic from Delayed Gratification magazine, America’s current...
Stress sucks. Not only can it eventually kill you, before it does that, it makes your life a living hell by weakening your immune system, causing ulcers, increasing memory loss, promoting abdominal obesity and accelerating the aging process. Worse yet, virtually none of us know how to...
Coming from a family of alcoholics probably wasn’t great for your childhood, nor is it great for your likelihood of turning into one yourself. After all, the children of heavy drinkers are four times as likely to develop a drinking problem. But that’s not the only thing...
Shrinkage: Nature’s humble pie. Why does the cold seemingly make everything below the belt seem smaller? I’ve always assumed it was fight-or-flight related, like a turtle retreating into its shell to hide from the elements. Or was that just a matter of resemblance? It turns out, however,...
Mocha Lattes Will Wake You Up Better Than Regular Coffee Cocoa and coffee truly are a match made in heaven, according to Clarkson University researcher Ali Boolani, who recently performed a study on the matter. Lucky test subjects were asked to execute various tasks after drinking brewed...
Have you ever wondered if you can rid yourself of a cold in a single day by consuming copious amounts of vitamin C? Us too. The unfortunate answer, according to Liz Weinandy, resident dietitian at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, is probably not—your body won’t...
Beer is said to be the nectar of the gods, and as such, you’d think it would be life-giving. But can you actually live on just beer? Dr. Aaron White, senior scientific advisor at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, says only a hopeless drunk...
Of the laundry list of side effects that make up most commercials for prescription pills, the ones that have the most immediate impact on men watching tend to be those focused on their sex lives: Do I want to take this cholesterol medication if it’s going to...
This recently-published map of the most common injuries in every state had us thinking about common everyday injuries—seemingly minor things like bumping an elbow, stubbing a toe or even plucking a stray nose hair, all of which can rank weirdly high on the pain scale. But why...
Whether we mean to or not, we’re all constantly judging each other, on everything from our handshakes to our gym clothes. Even our laugh — something we think of as involuntary — isn’t safe from this constant unconscious scrutiny, implying a range of potentially negative traits across both class and gender....
