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Fail Your Way To Fitness Success!:
We’ve all had the unenviable joy of joining the crowd to New Year’s Resolutions, often for fitness.
It lets you remind yourself of how much further you have to go,
And also gets you to take stock of just how hard the holiday hors d’oeuvres and drinks hit you over the past few months.
Because we all end up failing a bit, even on our way to success, Jimmy Fallon asked Twitter users for help…
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Happy New Year!:
Say hello to questionable gym memberships and your soon-to-be unused home exercise equipment!
And the video & the comment are funny because they’re true.
This isn’t one of Cracked’s Honest Commercials, but it’s still right.
Especially if a Consumer Reports survey is to be believed,…
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Raw Water’s Risks Shouldn’t Be Part Of “Pick Your Poison”:
Ok, so the non-medical, non bloodwork+antibiotics+mris world of wellness & supplements occasionally gets a little weird.
And that weirdness usually comes from one place:
California.
Well, this time it’s more of the same.
And their new ideas on water are positively mad…
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Winter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?
There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?
So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.
-Or you’ll catch a cold.
Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…
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Pick Your Poison:
As you wade through the sea of feelings and alcoholic drinks at the end-of-year festivities, or festivities at any time,
You may pick one or another for an emotional, contextual, or even marketing-“appropriate” reason.
And though people have laughed-off the idea of different drinks doing different things,
And the Cthulhulian-mythos of “Tequila Drunk”,
Science is figuring-out that those ideas may not be such old-wives’ tales after all…
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Evo-Psych Savannah Guy Has A New Number:
So Evolutionary Psychologist and fan of Real Ale, Dr. Robin Dunbar is out with another pronouncement.
It may not get as much press as his famous “Dunbar Number”,
Which is based on the Savannah Theory and guesses at the maximum # of social connections a person can handle (150).
But it may be just as important,
Especially for men who need to get out of the house, or at least kick the women out of the Man Cave…
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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!:
Ok, so some human intelligence researchers at Yale were minding their own business one day comparing our brains to monkeys.
They were trying to figure out what makes ours so great; since primates are so close to us.
And what they found was a bit of a surprise.
You see, many of the 180+ parts of our brains do very different things,
But Science is also finding increasingly-specific and weird bits inside those regions, and it surprises them every time, especially this one…
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Eating The Right Foods Can Be A Life-Saver:
A lot of us have trouble eating healthy, and think of things like nuts & seeds as just a snack.
Even more of us have trouble adding-back vitamins & minerals to the decreasingly-nutritious western diet.
But one trend that’s gaining popularity is trying to get less processed-food.
Especially Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s clever sub-theme of getting key nutrients only from food and not supplements.
And there is some pretty surprising upside for fans of one of Dr. Joel’s favorite foods…
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