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When it comes to New Year’s financial resolutions, saving more is a perennial favorite, as Fidelity’s 8th Annual Resolutions Study shows. And that’s fine, except resolving to save more may not be very effective if “more” still falls far short of being “enough” — or if you aren’t investing your …

Back in the day, reaching your retirement goals meant building a sizable portfolio and paying off your mortgage. Both goals are a lot harder to achieve in today’s economy. To amass adequate retirement savings, you’ll have to commit to a high contribution rate, given forecasts of lower returns. Paying off …

Gene therapy is part of an increasingly large collection of research fields: those with a huge, useless backlog of innovations. Gene therapy researchers have spent decades developing amazing, world-changing therapies with absolutely no ability to use those therapies outside of a test tube, or at best a cloned rodent. Now, …

Photo: Pond5 When it comes to living healthy, you know getting enough sleep matters. You can’t kill it at work and at the gym if you aren’t hitting the sack hard to let your mind and body recuperate. So if you’re a tosser-and-turner, your ears might perk up at the …

Photo: Pond5 That old wisdom about getting a solid eight hours of sleep per night? Not exactly true. In fact, the amount of sleep you need is totally unique to you — and may not necessarily be eight straight hours. According to a wide variety of studies, the average optimal …

Nintendo have expressed, openly, their admiration and respect for Minecraft before. And now, in an interview with Glixel, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto took the time to express his respect for the game and its creators yet again, noting that the idea was always something that Nintendo had experimented with in the past, …

In the present day and age, Diwali has almost become tantamount to venomous air pollution. A recent study shows that the levels of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide seem to be ever-increasing in the ‘festival of lights’ since 2010. Even the levels of particulate matter 2.5 are much higher than …

Photo: Pond5 When you’re trying to lose weight, it’s easy to get sucked into counting calories. After all, that’s what weight loss is all about, right? To some extent, that’s true, says Keri Gans, MS, RDN, author of The Small Change Diet. For example, if you usually consume 2,500 calories …

Photo: Michal Kulesza It’s so tempting: You’ve got something big coming up on the calendar that you want to look your best for. Why not diet hard and exercise a ton to get some weight off? Inevitably, though, even if you succeed, studies show you’ll gain it all back as …

This story was developed in collaboration with DailyBurn Fitness/Nutrition Coach Nora Minno. To find more workouts and healthy recipes head to DailyBurn.com. Wish you could take a peek at the real eating habits of the people around you? We looked into what DailyBurn Fitness/Nutrition Coach Nora Minno eats in a …