It's easy to get confused about the amount of sleep you really need every night, as you will see conflicting suggestions that look equally credible. So, how much sleep do you require if you're going to be healthy and energetic, and does your activity level influence the number of hours you should aim to get each night? Here's everything you [...] Read More
Pain management for chronic conditions due to inflammation or nerve damage, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, and diabetic neuropathy, is typically a matter of taking over-the-counter or prescription medications, which can have a number of unpleasant or even dangerous side effects. Managing pain naturally, or using natural pain remedies in addition to traditional medications, can help ease pain more effectively while preventing or [...] Read More
If you feel like a lump on a log most days and need a few extra shots of espresso in your caramel macchiato each morning just to get your eyes to open all the way, you're probably not the most productive cog in the wheel. You know what you need? You need some exercise, which [...] Read More
When constantly faced with the supposedly perfect women in Hollywood and on film/TV, it’s easy to start thinking less of how we look. When we see ourselves without the airbrush make-up, hair stylists, and Photoshopping used on these women, we may start to feel less-than beautiful, or even ugly, because we don’t have a perfectly flat stomach…or our [...] Read More
Doodling is the visual equivalent of tapping your pencil on your desk while waiting for a website to load or whistling an aimless tune as you scrub the toilet. Take a look at any of your notes from work meetings or any of your personal notebooks, and you'll likely find all manner of squiggles and lines, circles and boxes, [...] Read More
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is no joke and is plaguing more and more people each year as we rely more steadily on typing in our jobs. The carpal tunnel is a passageway that protects your median nerve, which travels from your forearm to the inside of your wrist and into your hands. When the median nerve inside the carpal tunnel [...] Read More
In 1979, a bunch of Harvard grad students were asked by researchers whether they had set clear goals for themselves and written them down. A full 84 percent had no goals at all. 13 percent had goals, oh yes, but they hadn't written them down. Only 3 percent of the students responded that they had clear goals that were [...] Read More
Ergonomics is, in a nutshell, the science of designing a workspace to fit the worker, as opposed to forcing the worker to submit to the given parameters of a workspace. Whether you spend your days wielding a jackhammer or a butcher knife, and whether you while away the hours in a kitchen or a cubicle, using tools and techniques [...] Read More
If your teeth look like the keys of that old piano you saw in the junk shop last week, it's to your advantage to whiten those babies ASAP. Recent research from the universities of Central Lancashire and Leeds found that having white teeth makes you more attractive. The researchers liken our teeth to the tail of a peacock, signifying [...] Read More
It's the same every morning: Your alarm goes off at 6:30, and you hit the snooze button. Fifteen minutes later, you hit it again, and then again, and again, and again, and at 7:45, you leap out of bed like a bat out of hell with just 30 minutes to go before you have to walk out the door [...] Read More