Health
Everything you need to know to improve your health, fitness and well-being, one hack at a time.
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You Can Let Out Your Rage in Healthy, Productive Ways
There’s no one right way to respond to anger, but there are certainly wrong ways. Sarcasm, passive aggression, outright aggression — there are healthier solutions to letting out some steam.
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You Should Double Fry Your Chicken
The best karaage chicken I ever ate was at a Japanese restaurant down in the Bowery area of New York City called Bessou. The restaurant took great pride in highlighting the wonders of Japanese comfort food, and that cosy feeling of wellbeing came in one single dish–their karaage chicken, which had a brain-rattling crunch more…
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What Exactly Does It Mean to ‘Die of Old Age’?
1Queen Elizabeth’s newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age. We might talk about people dying of old age in everyday speech. But who actually dies of old age, medically speaking, in the 21st century? Such a vague cause of death not only raises questions about…
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How to Win ‘Sober October’ (Even If You Drink a Little)
As you’ve probably guessed from the name, Sober October is an effort aimed at getting folks to take a month off from drinking alcohol. It began in 2014 as a fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support in the UK, and has grown into a worldwide trend, boosted, perhaps by the increase in alcohol consumption that accompanied…