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Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?
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Weekend Sleep, Does A Few Extra Hours Actually Do Anything?:
Cats can teach us many things. Most especially, the value of Sleep.

As Science tries to become as wise as cats, it too is discovering the extreme value of getting a good night’s sleep. And all the problems from not getting one.

Whether you’re trying to solve the Night Owl / Standard Work Day conundrum with Sara Mednick’s recommended naps, or fixing your other weekly sins.

Researchers in Sweden took the idea of a Daily nap and ran with it to try fixing the most-serious problems from sleep-debt, and the answers are cautiously-surprising…

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Diet For A Bigger Brain: Can High-Quality Nutrition Keep Your Mind Young And Powerful Over Time?

Filed Under: Nutrition

Diet For A Bigger Brain: Can High-Quality Nutrition Keep Your Mind Young And Powerful Over Time?
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Diet For A Bigger Brain, Can Nutrition Conquer Time?:
Two of the big problems we all face are what to do now and how to make sure we don’t compromise our future.

One big part of that we talk about here is Nutrition. Another is Brain Fitness.

And the fact-of-the-matter is you have to keep eating right and exercising not only for your waistline, but for Your Brain, too.

That’s because our brains start shrinking after the age of 30.

So, a crafty team of Dutch Researchers took some time off from being generally-insane-Dutchmen to find out if there was anything Nutrition could do to help…

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Alcohol & Gut Microbes: Does Drinking Kill Off All The Good Bacteria? Should We Outlaw Happy-Hour And Do Shots Of Activia Instead? [Video]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Video

Alcohol & Gut Microbes: Does Drinking Kill Off All The Good Bacteria? Should We Outlaw Happy-Hour And Do Shots Of Activia Instead? [Video]


Alcohol & Gut Microbes, Does A Little Fun Kill Your Health?:
So as science progresses we’re learning that microbes inside us play a very important part in our health.

Whether it’s worrying over how much fiber we get, if we’re too clean, too isolated,

Or if the probiotics we take can even help us avoid serious disease.

One of the other favorite human pastimes of course, is using a little nutritional alchemy to up the fun-quotient of life.

But according to the list of studies in this roundup by SciShow, that fun might have some consequences for that newest & tiniest frontier of our health…

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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People
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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss? Why Not?:
Hair-loss is a touchy subject.

And short of over-the-counter remedies that have some real shortcomings,

There doesn’t seem to be the perfect solution that people need right now.

And according to HairLossBuddy, the best non-drug solution so far has been freeze-dried saw palmetto berries or Beta-Sitosterol.

So that being said, you can forgive people for trying to latch-on to just about anything they can find.

That includes mistaking a scientific breakthrough for a license to make a hat out of McDonald’s French Fries…

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Vegan Dining Out: Don’t Worry, GMM’s Rhett And Link Solve Your Problems With The Fast-Food Restaurants Of Meat-Eaters [Video]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Video

Vegan Dining Out: Don’t Worry, GMM’s Rhett And Link Solve Your Problems With The Fast-Food Restaurants Of Meat-Eaters [Video]


vegan dining out rhett link gmm fast food hacks screenshotVegan Dining Out: Fast Food Menu Hacks To Cure Herbivore Munchies:
Anyone trying to eat according to a strict nutrition plan knows how hard it can be.

Whether it’s remembering to avoid sugars, or get the right number of calories.

The tougher plans like Keto, Vegetarian, or Vegan can pose more complex problems.

-Like just the ability to get the right Types of food in enough quantity at-all.

Well, Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning are here to the rescue! Here to help vegans get all the on-the-go nutrition they need.

From fast-food restaurants. That primarily serve meat. This should be good…

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Short Duration Exercise Bursts: Fitness-Tracker Research Hints At Interesting Exception To Old Cardio Rules; Apple Watches Really Do Save Lives…

Filed Under: Exercise

Short Duration Exercise Bursts: Fitness-Tracker Research Hints At Interesting Exception To Old Cardio Rules; Apple Watches Really Do Save Lives…
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Short Duration Exercise May Surprise:
Exercise seems like a daunting proposition for most of us.

Anything related to diet or physical-maintenance can be difficult to figure out.

This is really true for the most important part: Consistency.

You want to do the right thing, but somewhere between the scheduling and the elusive benefits, it seems easy to just give up outright or slowly ease off the wagon.

Especially since Science has always said there are Minimums;

BUT! Recently a few researchers from Duke University and the National Cancer Institute looked into those a bit closer…

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Fast Food Packaging Dangers Part II: PFAS Potentially More Dangerous Than Phthalates, May Complicate Weight-Loss, Waterproof Intestines

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Fast Food Packaging Dangers Part II: PFAS Potentially More Dangerous Than Phthalates, May Complicate Weight-Loss, Waterproof Intestines
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Food Packaging Dangers: First Phthalates, Now PFAS That Keep You Fat:
Recently we told you that when you go out to eat, you sometimes get more than you bargained-for.

And that extra you got was a group of chemicals called Phthalates.

In a follow-up to that post about fast-food-eating teenagers with elevated levels,

But no actual problems yet,

Another study came up that actually shows a relationship between similar chemicals that also get on our food,

And the big problem Americans seem to have right now with their weight…

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Phthalate Plastic Chemicals In Food: Cooking At Home Is Now Healthier And Safer Than Fast-Food Or Dining-Out, Garden-Hose Water Still Worse

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Phthalate Plastic Chemicals In Food: Cooking At Home Is Now Healthier And Safer Than Fast-Food Or Dining-Out, Garden-Hose Water Still Worse
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Phthalate Chemicals In Restaurant Food, Twice The Nutritional Fun!:
When most of us go to eat, we try to focus on getting good quality food and hopefully not too much.

And if you’re keeping sugar and saturated fats out, people would think you’re OK.

But even if we’ve come to expect unnecessary added-calories in restaurant food,

Most people would also think extra salt & fat are the main dangers of going out.

But according to a recent study, most people would be wrong.

Because it’s looking like dining-out comes with a side-dish of some pretty bizarre chemicals that are getting into our food…

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