Photo: Pond5 You’re probably familiar with the thousands-year-old practice of acupuncture, touted as a remedy for everything from chronic pain to asthma to infertility. But now, this wellness treatment is getting a serious boost…from an electrical current. While electroacupuncture isn’t entirely new, it’s definitely becoming more popular. How it works: “You …
Read More »7 Things Your Doctor Wants You to Know About the Flu
Photo: Twenty20 Is there anything more miserable than being saddled in bed with the flu? The common (and highly contagious) virus can lay you up so bad that even watching a Real Housewives marathon can seem too strenuous. Some slightly-more-scientific signs of influenza: You’ll likely experience fever, body aches/chills, a sore …
Read More »The Truth About How to Lose Belly Fat
Photo: Pond5 You’ve tried them all in your pursuit of flat abs: crunches, reverse crunches, planks, bicycles and even the ab roller. After all, it seems logical. To increase muscular definition and lose fat, you should work your stomach muscles more. But will that really lead to a trim belly? …
Read More »The Bittersweet Truth About Stevia and Natural Sweeteners
Photo: Pond5 With the “I Quit Sugar” revolution in full force, most of us are aware that too much of the sweet stuff can be bad news for our waistline, heart health and overall well-being. As a result, many food manufacturers and home chefs turn to natural sweeteners in an …
Read More »No Pain, No Gain? 5 Myths About Muscle Soreness
Photo: Twenty20 You just crushed a really hard workout. You upped the load of your training, or you stepped out of your routine and tried a new activity. You feel great — until you wake up the next morning, barely able to move. Enter delayed onset muscle soreness, better known …
Read More »Lime- What To Know About This Magic Ingredient For Digestion And More
Photo: gablet13 on Instagram While that lime wedge may be used to adorn your summer cocktail, there are actually many health benefits of this citrus fruit. The many advantages of lime include weight loss, skin care, improved digestion, eye care and much more. It can be consumed in various forms …
Read More »13 of the best tweets about the election
The polls for the 2016 election are beginning to close and Twitter is aflame. As the trashfire of this election burns itself to cinders, we got out of fetal position and took a break from counting down to the potential end of days with Twitter. Here are some tweets keeping us sane on #ElectionNight. 1) …
Read More »Samsung is really, really sorry about the Galaxy Note 7 and plans to ‘do better’
Samsung is no doubt eager to put this whole Note 7 situation behind it as quickly as possible. In fact, the company apparently can’t stop talking up the Galaxy S8, even though that device is still a few months over the horizon. But of the seven stages of exploding smartphone …
Read More »Everything you need to know about Apple’s huge second-quarter miss
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Read More »iPhone, iPad and Mac sales are down, but Apple only cares about services now
Apple just reported its Q3 2016 earnings, and investors are sending its stock through the roof. While the company managed to beat analysts’ expectations, Apple is selling fewer iPhones, iPads and Macs than last year during the same period. The long period of endless growth on all product lines is …
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