Reality About Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
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A Beginner-Friendly Latin Dance Workout
This time of the year, who doesn't want to do a little more dancing and celebrating? So why not substitute one of your usual HIIT or strength-training routines with this entertaining, totally approachable workout?
Forget a strenuous sweat session; this workout is all about having fun and moving your hips to the beat. Bonus: Even if you're new to dancing, there are modified moves you can definitely master in this 20-minute video from Grokker. The warm-up is included, and there's no equipment required, so once you've got a little space, just press play to get started.
Interested in more short and effective at-home workouts? We have thousands waiting for you on Grokker, the one-stop shop online resource for wellness. Join Grokker today and get 14 days of FREE unlimited at-home workout classes.
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Losing Weight Naturally - Easy and Fast Tips That You Can Follow
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Call to regulate starvation of 'Paris thin' models
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Four Steps To Optimal Health
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Medical first: Discovery of warning symptoms for usually fatal heart rhythm malfunction
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Best Food Items for Weight Loss in Women
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Triphala for Weight Reduction
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Vitamin D levels linked to weight-loss surgery outcomes
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How Acai Berry Weight Loss Supplements Can Help You Lose Weight
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Here’s How Much Toothpaste You Should Actually Use
We want to keep our pearly whites shiny and cavity free, so we use a generous amount of toothpaste every time we brush. But the bristles do most of the cleaning, so we’re actually overdoing it when it comes to toothpaste, says Steven Goldberg, a dentist in Manhattan. All you need is a pea-size amount of fluoride toothpaste to get the job done (see Exhibit A below). Kids younger than 6 should use even less—about the size of a grain of rice.
Photo: Katie Manley
The recommendations are smaller for children because there’s concern they may swallow some toothpaste, and in extreme cases, they can experience fluorosis, brown spots on the teeth from too much fluoride. There is no harm if adults use more toothpaste than recommended, says Ana Paula Ferraz-Dougherty, a dentist and spokesperson for the American Dental Association. But as Goldberg points out, a lot of (fairly) expensive toothpaste will go down the drain.
“Using enough toothpaste to cover the entire brush head will only go to waste and be spit out into the sink,” Goldberg says. “Most people are using too much, because they follow what they’ve seen in advertisements and commercials.”
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Your Netflix and Chill Habit Is Hurting the Environment
If you plan to spend the holidays curled up under the covers binge-watching Orange Is the New Black or Jessica Jones, we’ve got some bad news for you: All of that streaming uses a ton of energy. Streaming an hour of video on your smartphone weekly uses more energy over the course of the year than two refrigerators. We have data centers and their humming servers to thank for sucking up all that electricity.
But there is a silver lining to cloud computing: Many large tech companies, like Google and Facebook, use renewable energies to power their servers. So we can feel a little better when our plan of watching one episode quickly turns into eight.
(h/t The Atlantic)
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The Internet Responded Appropriately When Told to Cook Dinner in Their Dishwasher
We love whipping up meals in our Crock-Pot, rice cooker, and Vitamix. But a dishwasher? That seems a little outrageous. So when Shape magazine tweeted a story from PureWow titled “5 Foods You Can Cook In Your Dishwasher” the Internet understandably responded with confusion, eye rolls, jokes, and lots and lots of GIFs (see below).
We haven’t tried to make dishwasher salmon or asparagus (we’ll leave that up to you adventurous folks), but very reputable cooking blogs have and claim it works.
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Even before ACA, cancer survivors in non-expansion states had less health-care access
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By asking, ;what's the worst part of this?' physicians can ease suffering
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Pediatric medication poisonings more likely in poor, rural areas
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Amazing Tricks to Make "Body Waxing" Easy For Men
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'Pill mill' crackdown linked to fewer painkiller overdose deaths in Florida
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Mothers-to-be, babies benefit from group prenatal care, study finds
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Radial access used less than femoral approach for emergency angioplasty
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Santa's In Trouble - A Satire
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What Are Hair Chemical Relaxers?
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This Hilarious "Hello" Parody Totally Gets What's So Difficult About Being Healthy
OK, we know, another parody of Adele’s hit single, but hear us out. You’ll be hooked after hearing this husband-wife comedy duo artfully turn lines like “hello from the other side” into “hella cravings for some fries.” They get to the heart of what makes healthy eating so hard when they belt: “The ice cream truck is the only reason I run.” So what are you waiting for? Just be warned: The reworked tune might get stuck in your head for days.
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This Sleep Position May Lead to More Nightmares
Next time you wake up in a cold sweat, pay attention to your sleep position. This article from Van Winkle’s tipped us off to a series of studies that compared the types of dreams we have with the way we sleep. One small study (63 participants) found that people were much more likely to experience nightmares (and lower overall sleep quality) when lying on their left side.
Another larger study (670 participants) found that people had the most vivid and generally pleasant dreams sleeping facedown (though some of those face-planters reported dreams of drowning or seeing UFOs).
Science hasn’t found one optimal sleep position—and these studies show correlation, not causation. But if you find yourself having nightmares again and again, rolling over can’t hurt.
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Timing of end-of-life discussions for patients with blood cancers
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Hypertension-related visits to emergency rooms on rise in US
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Email between patients, physicians improves health, survey shows
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Engineers develop simulations of the human heart
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Pelvic pain is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in women with endometriosis
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32 Drinks You’re Probably Pronouncing Wrong
The menu at a bar can look more like a string of random consonants and vowels (Gewürztraminer, anyone?) than a list of legit words.
After struggling to sound out the beer, wine, or spirit, we usually just throw our hands in the air (OK, maybe just metaphorically) and order something familiar. Which is why we typically drink Blue Moon and vodka—not together, that'd be gross. So we put together this handy guide to all the booze we’ve been mispronouncing. Keep it bookmarked and covertly pull it up next time you’re at your favorite bar.
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We're All Putting on Perfume in the Wrong Places
Certain habits are instinctual: You grab a dryer sheet to stop static, rub your lips together to spread chapstick, and apply perfume to your wrists and neck... right?
While we don't want to say we've all been living a lie (that'd be melodramatic), that last one isn't exactly correct. Turns out there's no actual science behind why we've been spritzing our pulse points with perfume and cologne all these years (besides the undeniable glamour of it all, that is).
Can You Smell Me Now?
Spraying your wrists and neck is purely tradition and has little to no effect on the scent or intensity of the perfume, says Perry Romanowski, a cosmetic chemist and co-founder of The Beauty Brains. "The traditional belief is that the pulse points are places where the body generates extra heat and this can intensify the fragrance. There's no evidence to support this."
According to Romanowski, heat can increase the volatility of ingredients in your perfume, leading the molecules to evaporate more quickly and come off as a stronger burst of fragrance. But that only holds up if the skin at your pulse points is actually hotter than elsewhere on your body—and as cardiologist Jeffrey Schussler, M.D., explains, that's not actually the case.
"You can feel your pulse where it’s fairly superficial, but the body temperature is pretty much regulated," Schussler says, meaning that even though your veins may be close to the skin's surface at your wrist, the actual temperature of your skin won't vary.
Perfume of the Past
The practice of spritzing your wrists and neck came about in the early 1900s, before atomizers (perfume bottles' spray mechanisms) were widespread, says Raymond Matts, a fragrance designer and instructor at the Pratt Institute's perfumery certificate program. Perfumes back then were highly concentrated and came in bottles with crystal stoppers (think Dior Poison), so women would wipe the stoppers on their wrists, and then rub their wrists on their ears. Due to the way those heavy perfume notes were structured, the fragrances were rich enough that the scent would waft from their bodies. But that was then, and this is now.
The Sprays of Today
These days, Romanowski says perfumes are structured with top, middle, and bottom notes. You smell the top notes—usually citruses and florals—first. Then they disappear after a few minutes, whereas floral, fruity, and green middle notes last for a couple of hours. Base notes—musks and pines—hang around and evaporate last.
Generally, perfumes with higher oil concentrations have a more powerful scent, Matts says. Essential oils have the lowest concentration, followed by eau de parfum, then eau de toilette (the higher the concentration, the more expensive). And typically, spray products have more top notes, while rollerball fragrances and lotions last longer but have less intense scents.
To make the most of today's perfumes, Matts recommends spraying perfume across the back of your forearm, where it will catch the air, or on your hair and shirt collar if you want it to really last. "People just take the atomizer, put it really close to their wrist and give a little squirt," Matts says. "They hope that magically, because it’s a hot spot, it’s going to be like a furnace blowing air—but that's not what happens."
The reality: Spraying onto hair and fabric is a better plan, because the oils sink into the structure of the fibers and take longer to evaporate. Just be careful spraying onto silk and other delicate fabrics—that's one area Matts says you should stick with your first instinct.
The Takeaway
While applying perfume to your pulse points may have made sense with fragrance's earliest iterations, there's no real science that says spraying it on your neck and wrist will enhance the scent. Luckily, today's formulas are advanced enough that perfume will "lift off" anyway (so people will be able to smell it), and where you put it won't really make a difference. Try spritzing your forearm, clothes, or hair if you really want people to smell the scent. Want to keep it intimate? Pulse point away.
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The Best Bodyweight Workout for Runners
Listen up, runners! You probably know you should do more than endless laps and intervals to stay at the top of your game and prevent injury. But how often are you mixing in a strength routine, yoga class, or spin session? (Yeah, that's what we thought.)
Luckily, running coach and Mile High Run Club instructor Luke Lombardo has a fill-in-the-gaps solution: a bodyweight-only no-nonsense workout that helps build strength. You'll start with a sprint, then move into some classics go-tos for a full-body workout that lasts just 15 minutes. Try this outdoors or in a gym using a treadmill. Either will have you sweating in no time.
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Behavioral economists: Health insurance complexity leads to costly mistakes
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