If stress is making you feel overwhelmed, it could be down to your everyday thinking patterns, says a leading happiness researcher who has a few simple mindset shifts to help How happy are you? If the answer is, ‘Meh! Who’s happy?’ you’re not alone. But why is it that, despite our relative prosperity as a nation and our own individual success,… Read More »
According to scientists, Brits consume, on average, 6,000 calories on Christmas Day alone. So, in an experiment published last year in the British Medical Journal, U.K. researchers explored whether providing people with the amount of exercise required to burn off the calories in, say, a single piece of mincemeat pie (21 minutes of running) or… Read More »
High blood pressure happens when the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high and your heart has to work harder to pump blood around your body. If you have high blood pressure, your arteries lose their stretchiness and become stiff or narrow, and this narrowing makes it easier for fatty… Read More »
Flo and Clue, two popular period-tracking apps, recently introduced health tools that evaluate a woman’s risk for the hormonal imbalance known as polycystic ovary syndrome. In September alone, more than 636,000 women completed the Flo health assessments, said the app’s developer, Flo Health. The app then recommended that 240,000 of those women, or about 38… Read More »
While we all want our children not to have any problems at all, the reality is that life doesn’t always work that way. Many children suffer from some sort of problem, whether it’s something minor and often temporary, like a speech delay, or something more difficult and permanent, like cerebral palsy or autism. Children with… Read More »
lagunaguianceGetty Images One of the worst things you can do in during interval workouts is rest too little. Unfortunately, that’s how a whole lot of interval workouts are programmed, confusing recovery time with wasted opportunities to pack in more work. When you push for 50 seconds and rest 10, for example, your body won’t be… Read More »