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Health & Wellness

Ready, Set, Fast: How Strategic Meal-Skipping Can Help You Lose Fat, Gain Muscle, and Get Healthier

Ready, Set, Fast: How Strategic Meal-Skipping Can Help You Lose Fat, Gain Muscle, and Get Healthier

By John Beradi, PhD When we were kids, Mom was always looking out for our health. Chew your food. Eat your vegetables. And always eat breakfast because it’s the most important meal of the day. As busy grown-ups, a good … Read Full Post

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A New Way to Fight Jet Lag

A New Way to Fight Jet Lag

By Jill Yaworski You get only a handful of vacation days—so you want to make each one count. (After all, this isn’t France.) So when you take a long-anticipated getaway, you don’t want to waste a precious day recovering from … Read Full Post

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Worst Breakfast Foods: The Breakfast Foods You Need To Give Up Now

Worst Breakfast Foods: The Breakfast Foods You Need To Give Up Now

By William Leigh Whether you’re working out to build muscle, get definition, train for a marathon, lose weight, or because you’re just health conscious, you should be well aware of what you’re putting into your body on a daily basis and … Read Full Post

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Caloric Restriction & Memory: Why Eating Less Can Completely Change Your Life

Caloric Restriction & Memory: Why Eating Less Can Completely Change Your Life

By Dave Golokhov Less is more when it comes to your diet, and new research shows there’s more to that motto than just staying thin. A new Italian study on caloric restriction has shown that eating less can give your memory … Read Full Post

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Bummed Out? Here’s the Weird Reason Why

Bummed Out? Here’s the Weird Reason Why

By Denny Watkins Sure, you can blame your grumpy January mood on the post-holiday blues, the dreary weather, or your local NFL franchise not making the playoffs. Another possible culprit: Not enough vitamin D may be what’s making you depressed, … Read Full Post

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Wifi-enabled Laptops May be Nuking Sperm

Wifi-enabled Laptops May be Nuking Sperm

By New York Reuters The digital age has left men’s nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections. In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe … Read Full Post

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9 Sneaky Ways to Eat Less

9 Sneaky Ways to Eat Less

By Chris Garcia Eating too fast is making your waistline expand, suggest two new studies presented at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society. Men who consider themselves fast eaters have significantly higher body mass indexes (BMIs) than slower eaters, … Read Full Post

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5 Tips for Avoiding Stress

5 Tips for Avoiding Stress

By Kurt Simonsen No matter what you do, life seems to always inject a little too much stress into your daily life. Whether you are an overloaded high school English teacher with 150 research essays to grade or a high-profile … Read Full Post

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8 Foods that Pack on Muscle

8 Foods that Pack on Muscle

If muscles were made from chips and beer, we’d look huge. But they aren’t, and we don’t—unless you count that sack o’ fat up front and dead center. If not Doritos and double bock, then what? We decided to delve … Read Full Post

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The ROI of Getting in Shape

The ROI of Getting in Shape

Thinkstock What You Need To Know Women would rather have a pretty boy for arm candy than a rich one. As early as elementary school, teachers give better-looking students higher grades. Physically attractive people earn a 5% “beauty premium” over … Read Full Post

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