Breaking news and useful advice on fitness, nutrition, and mental health: whether you’re looking to lose weight, build muscle, or just live well. Bone up on exercise techniques, parenting trends, sex and relationship features, and more.
Don’t like BMI as a measure of health? You aren’t alone. It’s dated, nonsensical, and wasn’t even designed to measure an individual’s personal health—it was designed for measuring the level of obesity in entire populations. Anyway, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found a better measure of poor health: waist size. … Read More
Want to make it to middle age with the memory, problem solving skills, and general mental acuity you’ve enjoyed in your youth? Go for a run. Regularly. A study published in Neurology has found that people who exercised regularly in their twenties enjoyed better cognitive function in their forties compared … Read More
See that little guy, Justin Johnson? He’s 6’1”. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8qZ3huAdk[/youtube]
The greatest Oiler since Gretzky is retiring, and the Canucks gave him a classy send off after Saturday’s game. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUzhpii-bg[/youtube]
We can’t really give you any advice on how to be more intelligent—hell, scientists even have a hard time defining what exactly intelligence is—but we can tell you how you might improve your working memory and clarify your thinking: lose some weight. A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience … Read More
