Health & Fitness

In this month of celebrating love, the thought of sex always follows. Yet, while love is expressed in so many ways and acted out frequently, the same cannot be said about sex. So, how many times do couples – married or not – have sex? Can you still remember when was the last time you […]

Former Michigan State University basketball player Keith Appling pleaded guilty to a 2021 murder and firearm charges. He is facing 18 to 40 years in prison and is set to be sentenced on March 3. Appling was accused of killing 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds, whose wife is the first cousin of Appling’s mother, during a dispute […]

How is it that we are capable of waking up just before our alarm clock rings? It sometimes feels almost like a superpower and at other times it feels like a waste of a few minutes of precious extra sleep. According to the Medical Director at TIRR Memorial Herman Neurological Sleep Medicine Center in Houston, […]

Male pattern baldness is quite common but apparently Australia has the highest number of bald men than anywhere on the planet. According to a report by the Australian Government Department of Health significant balding affects about one in five Australian men by the time they hit their 20s, about one in three men in their […]

A new study from the Huntington Medical Research Institute in Pasadena, California, published in the journal Science Advances, has uncovered a possible connection between taking erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs and lower rates of heart problems, including heart disease and heart attack-related death. Erectile dysfunction meds like Viagra and Cialis, known as Phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) Inhibitors or […]

An unidentified man got hospitalized after swallowing a banana wrapped in a condom, resulting in extreme abdominal pain and bowel obstruction. The first case of its kind in the world, the 34-year-old man ate the banana in a fit of rage, as he has a history of depression and a few psychological issues. Condom banana? […]

Did you know it may actually be better for you to walk down the stairs then up. This type of exercise is called eccentric exercise as opposed to concentric which is when you walk upwards. The same applies to running up a hill, it may be better to go downhill instead. Why Walking Down the […]

Author of The Joy of Saying No, Natalie Lue said that all her life she resorted to people pleasing, or was a people-pleaser, and as a person who has moved away from this, she has found life to be much more fulfilling and happier. Lue said that growing up she often felt under pressure to […]

How is it that some people are so lucky that they never catch a cold or hardly get sick? Well here are some tips to figure out how their immune systems seem to be better. (Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post) Here are the Healthy habits to adopt: Drink a lot of water The first in […]

How strange is it that when you’re angry, grumpy or riled up you’re more likely to be more detail oriented. So maybe that’s the best time to proofread a sensitive document or go through an important email that you need to send off. According to studies from the University of Arizona, when we are in […]

Going with your gut instinct or inner voice is a tactic that people often use to make decisions but sometimes our gut does lie to us. How do we know when it does? Here are some indications; Our decisions often come from formative voices in our lives from the time we were children, from parents, […]

A report by Guardian recently revealed in a study of Algorithms on social media shows that three out of four children as young as 12 “dislike their bodies and are embarrassed by the way they look.” stem4, a youth mental health charity surveyed 1,024 children and young people aged between 12-21 years old for the […]

Did you know that dishwashers can actually possibly damage your gut? This is because residue from rinse agents left behind on dishes that are cleaned in professional-grade dishwashers has a protective layer that can contribute to the onset of chronic diseases. Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma (SIAF) have found that commercial […]

In sub-Saharan Africa, having no food on the table leads women to engage in sex work. Since there is so much food insecurity in that part of the world, no food leads to more sex. This is the dilemma that women and girls face. A study published by ICAP at Columbia University found that an extreme lack of food […]

What exactly is smiling depression? For some people hiding their emotions for fear of being reprimanded developed during their formative years, for others, it is a cultural thing [like for men having to put up a brave front for example] or even not wanting others to know what’s going on in their personal lives for […]