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At risk of heart disease, like many men? Well, then make sure you add more fruits and vegetables to you diet, as they’ve been found to cause a real and significant increase to your cardiovascular health. According to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the consumption of … Read More
Do you have someone in your life who is constantly reading you their latest poem, showing off their latest thirty seconds of strumming, or showing you their latest black and white out of focus picture? If so, congratulations, your life sucks, and the findings of this study won’t surprise you: … Read More
You’ve probably heard it take as an article of faith: if you’re dieting or watching your weight, it’s probably better to eat a breakfast. Along with “drink eight glasses of water a day” and “spinach has lots of iron”, it’s taken as an article of faith. Except, like those two … Read More
Revenge fantasies are certainly satisfying—but are they bad for you? A new study published in the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry examined exactly that. Researchers subjected several dozen psychologically healthy subjects to three disturbing five-minute clips from Funny Games, Sleepers, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; the … Read More
Everything’s worse when you’re stressed—including, as it turns out, the smell of the world around you. A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has found that when a person becomes stressed, their emotional and olfactory portions of the brain become linked, causing inoffensive smells to become offensive. Scientists … Read More
