Saturday, 27 December 2014

Why You Should Give up Drinking for 30 Days

The holidays are a great time of year, stuffed full of fun, family, friends, and food, and—if you are anything like me—washed down with an abundance of beer, wine, and the occasional cocktail.   When the season is done, I often feel bloated and like I need to do something.  I’ve thought about taking January off from drinking and never...

The Vitamin You Need So Your Penis Can Perform

Low levels of this nutrient may cause your penis to let you down.   Lacking enough of the sunshine vitamin might snuff out the lights on your bedroom game.  New research from Italy suggests that low levels of vitamin D may increase your risk of erectile dysfunction.When researchers tested 143 men with varying degrees of erectile dysfunction, they found that nearly half of them were coming up deficient in D, and...

Try This Genius Tip for Cutting Onions without Crying

For some guys, cutting onions can irritate their eyes so much that they have to slap on goggles to keep from crying. It's a totally radical look—but the right idea: You need a barrier to protect your eyes from the sulfurous compounds released by slicing an onion.  "If the vapor can't reach your eyes, then it's not going to irritate them," says Rachel Bishop, M.D., chief of consult services for the NIH's National Eye Institute. Of...

7 Ways to Keep Your Vagina Young

(Photo: Getty Images) Just as your face starts sagging, so your lady parts will inevitably age over time. One critical difference: There are a million products to help keep your face looking supple, but your vagina is kind of left to fend for itself. “Gynecologists don’t tell women these things are going to happen, and then women come in shocked that their vagina and vulva have completely changed over the course of a couple years,”...

Science-Backed Ways To Stay Young Forever (Or As Long As Possible, Anyway)

We can’t stop aging completely like Blake Lively’s character in “The Age of Adeline,” but we can at least slow it down (to an extent). (Lakeshore Entertainment) In the recently released trailer for “The Age of Adeline,” actress Blake Lively gets into a magical car accident in the year 1935 and never ages another day. She may look a youthful, radiant 29 years old forever — but it comes at a cost to her relationships and love life.  ...

The One Ab Move You Haven’t Tried, But Should

(Photo: The Barre Code) Planks are great, especially when performed to a Taylor Swift tune. But, you can’t create a strong, firm core from planks alone — you need a toolbox of exercises to pull from. One move to try is the V Prayer Reach from the team at The Barre Code fitness studios. The gentle move targets your ab muscles, specifically your rectus abdominis and transverse abdominis explains co-founders...

7 Foods to Remove From the Fridge Foreve

The first step in eating better is exactly the same as the first step in dressing better: Go home and toss out the stuff that doesn’t make you look good. Most of us have closets filled with poorly fitting, out-of-style clothes we cling to. And most of us have kitchens that are crowded with junk—foods that seem healthy, but don’t pull their weight. And they’re making you gain weight, elbowing out healthier products that ought to...