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Can’t resist a chocolate bar, especially if it’s right at your fingertips? Actually, you can: just go for a walk. A study published in PLOS One has found that a fifteen minute walk can help people resist the urge to eat a chocolate bar, even if said people are fat, … Read More
We don’t care how much you’re benching right now, how cut you look in that new bespoke suit, or how often you’re bedding sexy new flings. Here are three bitter pills: you’re going to get old, it’s going to be rough, and exactly how rough depends a lot on what … Read More
Remember the attack on Tony Soprano outside the newsstand? Turns out that bullet time may not just be a stylistic choice by auteur David Chase—depressed people really do feel time moving more slowly. Okay, maybe not as slow as bullet time, but still. A study published in the Journal of … Read More
We know they’re keeping you up at night, they make Halloween costumes super cool, and they’re pretty addicting, but are smartphones really making you stupider? Well, not quite—but the news isn’t great. A study published in Computers and Cognitive Behaviour has found that people who rely on their smartphones more … Read More
So, just how much do you think intense feelings of anger or anxiety might increase your risk of having a heart attack? Double the risk? Triple? Oh, it’s way more. A study published the European Heart Journal has found that a bout of intense anger will increase your risk of heart … Read More
