Researchers gathered 14 men — a small number, admittedly — and made them look at pictures of curvy women while scanning their brains. The researchers found that looking at curvy bodies activated parts of the men’s brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol.
“These findings could help further our understanding [...]
Not all sandwiches are calorie-laden turd-bags from Obesity Hell. With a few smart choices, certain key ingredients, and knowledge of what’s healthy and what’s not can enable you to enjoy a good delicious lunch without sacrificing your health. Here are 10 awesome and healthy sandwich recipes you can actually use.
If you’re more on the chubby side, you probably should blame your kitchen and what it contains. From the size of your platter, to your kitchen layout, to your pantry pace, even the clarity of your HUGE cookie jar matter — these contribute to make you eat more.
New research suggests what we’ve already understood as truth: lack of sleep can not only make you an unpleasant human being, but it can also actually kill you.
From the obvious health-related effects of lack of sleep, such as obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and shorter lives. There’s even new findings that lack of [...]
Sex isn’t only a feel-good thing; it’s also a great means to stay healthy. To live longer now, here are five reasons how sex improves your health.
Doctors make mistakes, too. And often, such mistakes come by way of making a diagnostic miss. These are the top seven diseases that doctors miss, and they can just kill you.
Scientists have known for a long time that rats, mice, and worms that eat very little live longer than those that eat normal diets. Now, the results of research on humans are starting to emerge. It may take decades to prove that people who carefully regulate their calories and eating patterns extend their life span, [...]
Here are 10 tried and tested ways to help you live a longer, healthier life.
1. Don’t oversleep:
Studies show that people who sleep more than eight hours per night had a significantly higher death rate than normal. Meanwhile, researches say that sleeping less than four hours also increases death rates. People who sleep between six [...]
Harvard University and UC San Diego scientists have demonstrated in a study that happiness can spread “like an infection” through social networks of family members, friends and neighbors.
Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more likely to be happy yourself, the study found. A happy friend of a friend increases your odds of happiness [...]
