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Here’s When Your Relationship Needs Separate Beds
Sleeping with your partner in the same bed is synonymous with relationship bliss. Waking up next to the love of your life, cosy cuddles, and sex? What’s not to like, right? For a number of couples, the answer is — everything. While tradition says partners should sleep together in the same bed, that choice might…
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Don’t Waste Your Time With These Terrible Diet Tips
It’s the new year and everybody’s on a diet — I mean, a wellness journey. Whether you want to lose weight or not is none of my business, but I do beg you to please, please let all the following silly weight loss “hacks” die. Many of them verge on disordered eating behaviours, while others…
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11 Psychology Terms You’re Misusing, According to Psychologists
Psychology-related words and phrases tend to creep into our everyday vocabularies. Unfortunately, many of them have been twisted in our minds, and we now use them to refer to the wrong thing — or, in some cases, science has moved on and we’re talking about something woefully outdated. Here are some of the worst offenders…
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How to Improve Your VO2 Max
Setting a new personal max is a great way to chart your progress toward your fitness goals — so what’s the easiest way to do that? One useful step is to improve VO2 max, which is a measure of how much oxygen your body can take in and use during exercise. The more oxygen your…