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Is Organic Food Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

  • January 15, 2019
Kurzgesagt asks: “Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?” The answer, like most things, is it’s complicated. Taking into account the results of dozens of studies (extensive list…
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Back Away from the Suncreen, Sunshine Might Just Do More Good Than Harm

  • January 14, 2019
I often find myself taking heat from family and friends for not wearing a hat, not putting on sunscreen, not putting on long sleeves and pants, etc… when I’m out…
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How to Write a Cycling Training Plan for the Coming Year

  • January 3, 2019
The start of a new year means new resolutions. However, without a well laid out plan, most won’t make it further than a month or two. Having a goal (or…
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Awesome Chart for Finding Bodyweight Exercises for Every Body Part

  • November 26, 2018
For 15 years I almost exclusively lifted weights for my strength training exercise, but recently I’ve been trying to move to a more holistic  approach. I use bodyweight movements for…
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“Unapproved pharmaceutical ingredients” the Secret Sauce in Many Nutritional Supplements

  • October 15, 2018
That new pre-workout pump juice working pretty well for you? Well, that might just be because it’s loaded up with prescription drugs like Viagra (now you’re feeling the pump). Research…
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Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World

  • October 2, 2018
For hunter-gatherers living 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals created a surplus of food that led to stability and advancement of technology and culture. But now as the world’s…
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The Link Between Stress and Memory

  • September 10, 2018
In a Ted-Ed  lesson written by educator  Elizabeth Cox, narrator  Christina Greer  explains how memory is connected to stress levels through  corticoidsteroids. Corticosteroids affect the hippocampus, which is where memories…
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The Right Amount of Alcohol? None.

  • August 28, 2018
A truly gigantic study entitled “Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” has determined that no…
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Maybe it is Possible to Catch Up on Sleep Afterall

  • May 29, 2018
I sleep in late whenever I can. I don’t pull of 11 or even noon like I did as a teenager anymore, but if I can stay in bed until…
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Cycling Keeps the Immune System Young

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The Effects of Drinking Way Too Much Coffee

  • March 12, 2018
Life Noggin  with the help of  Craig Benzine  aka  Wheezy Waiter  take a look at what would happen if you only drank coffee and how much coffee one would have…
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