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Feeling overworked is a really common problem. You can’t always change your work environment, but there are steps you can take to deal with many of the issues associated with an overloaded work life.
If you’ve ever received an injection of any kind, you doctor may have told you to look away so it won’t hurt. As it turns out, new research published in the journal Pain provides evidence that looking away actually does decrease the amount of pain you feel.
Knowledge is power. If you’re better educated, it seems logical that you won’t die as young (you’ll earn more, you’ll have access to better health services, you’ll be more aware of the risks). However, a wide-ranging study covering 1.2 million Swedish children suggests that any death-dodging benefit from additional education isn’t statistically evident until much later in life.
If you’re trying to watch what you eat, or your doctor has put you on a diet, you know what it’s like to struggle with gnawing hunger even though you’re all out of calories for the day. Sure, chugging a few glasses of water and going to bed may help keep you from raiding the fridge before the sun comes up, but being hungry still sucks. Thankfully, the blog Syatt Fitness has a solid list of foods you can eat and enjoy even if you’re counting calories.
Keeping yourself awake after a bad night of sleep or after a long day at work can be tough. Instead of resorting to excessive amounts of caffeine, illustrator and blogger Yumi Sakugawa has put together an infographic that shows a bunch of clever ways to keep yourself awake, including a few handy acupressure techniques.
Fitness-tracking site Fitocracy is a great web app to track your fitness, log how many calories you burn every day, get help and motivation from others, and even turn getting in shape into a game that we love to play. But for some of us, competition is a stronger motivator than collaboration.
Plastic water bottles aren’t silent killers, even if you leave them out in the heat. They’re perfectly safe. Brian Dunning, of myth-busting web series inFact, explains why.
We’re heading into full-on flu season, and the fact that we have to work in air-conditioned offices and breath air shared with less healthy colleagues often gets blamed for the rapid spread of the disease. But the culprit is just as likely to be a door handle.
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo is, to many of his patients, the “angel” who cuts where other surgeons fear to go. He feels strongly about the possibility that using mobile phones might increase the risk of brain tumours. He too often sees the coincidence between the ear to which a mobile phone has usually been held and a tumour in the underlying brain.
I suspect we don’t have to explain ‘social jetlag’ to you — trying to fit too much into your schedule can lead to symptoms not unlike the body clock disorientation that causes jetlag. A recent study confirms that trying to cram too much into your calendar can not only ruin your sleep patterns, it can also make you fat.
