Yesterday was the festival of sleep day, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t work towards getting a good night’s rest every night! continue reading...
There may be more than nicotine that’s stopping you from giving up smoking. Research shows that cigarettes are designed to manipulate your taste buds too! The natural and added flavors to tobacco make it even harder for someone to quit. continue reading...
There’s never been a better time to be a half-assed vegetarian. Five years ago, the American Dialect Society honored the word flexitarian for its utility in describing a growing demographic—the “vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.” Now there’s evidence that going flexi is good for the environment and good for your health. A study released last October found that a plant-based diet, augmented with a small amount of dairy and meat, maximizes land-use efficiency. In January, Michael Pollan distilled the entire field of nutritional science into three rules for a healthy diet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” According to a poll released last week, Americans seem to be listening: Thirteen percent of U.S. adults are “semivegetarian,” meaning they eat meat with fewer than half of all their meals. In comparison, true vegetarians—those who never, ever consume animal flesh—compose just 1 percent. Read more…
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