Could a single trip to the nail salon change your life forever? (Kenneth Willardt/Trunk Archive) For most women, the worst thing that’s happened at a nail salon is choosing a polish color they end up regretting — or maybe having their nails clipped a little too close. The young woman, whose case is detailed in the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, was recently diagnosed with advanced HIV yet failed to meet any
California researchers found diets rich in the nut, or its oil, slowed tumour growth in mice.
Vitamin D is called the “sunshine vitamin” because the body produces it through sun exposure. Our current guidelines suggest identical amounts for 1-year-old kids all the way to 70-year-old adults. But new research has disproved this one-size-fits-all dosage, suggesting we consider one factor over all others — your weight.
SAD is a type of depression that sets in from fall to winter, and can make you feel like you’re trapped in the beginning of a Nicholas Sparks novel.
An anthropologist from the University of Alabama believes that modern day humans’ relaxing response to fire is evolutionary and prehistoric man would have socialised around flames.
The Interdependence Project founder Ethan Nichtern, author of the upcoming The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path, is challenging you to unplug from all of it for a full ten minutes each day this month—as part of Athleta’s Healthiest Year Ever—and giving it a shot might just make you a happier, nicer person. Related: 10 Foods for Happiness “Becoming mindful of our present moment experience allows us
Clearing the air: New science reveals that toking up may be more addictive than previously thought. Although there’s a lot of buzz about marijuana being non-addictive, the evidence is stacking up that people can — and do — become dependent on the drug. A study released earlier this year, for example, found that 40 percent of marijuana users in an outpatient treatment program showed signs of withdrawal, a classic indicator of
Ear-O-Smart wearables look and feel just like earrings but they’re packed with sensors capable of taking your pulse and monitoring your exercise for fitness tracking.
Thirty-seven percent of Americans have “pre-diabetes,” fasting blood-sugar levels considered higher than desirable. Her sister, Sonia, had juvenile diabetes, or Type 1, which is linked to an unfortunate gene.
By Ramona Emerson for Allure Clean hands are great until someone hands you a receipt. When people handled cash-register receipts after applying hand sanitizer, the level of bisphenol A (BPA) in their blood stream increased as much as tenfold, according to a new study from the University of Missouri. It’s not entirely clear how BPA affects humans, but animal studies have shown that it can disrupt hormones that are key to