When you realize your needle is on E and you’re about to run out of fuel, don’t speed up and race to the next gas station. You’ll only burn up what’s left. Instead, start coasting! “Whenever you get the chance [more…]
From the daily archives:
Friday, January 8, 2010
Think you’re pretty good at spotting unsafe ingredients on food labels? Try testing your skill right now by picking which ingredient is the safe one:
A) ascorbic acid
B) ferrous gluconate
C) diacylglycerol
D) propylene glycol alginate
Surprise—they’re all safe to eat! A is vitamin C, B is iron, C is cooking oil, and D is a food thickener made from seaweed. Most of us [more…]
Do you throw your bowl of popcorn in the air when someone unexpectedly knocks at the door while you’re watching a scary movie? Leap out of bed when there’s a sudden loud noise in the middle of the night? If so, you could have a gene that makes you more easily startled than other folks, according to recent research [more…]
What’s not to love about green tea? Study after study shows it’s chock full of health-boosting benefits that can lower your risk of cancer and heart disease, reduce cholesterol, rev up your metabolism, build up bone density, improve sleep, amp up alertness and quash stress. It can even dash dandruff [more…]
