After a full-on workout or some hot sun at the beach, what could be better than an ice cold beer? Well, according to a recent U.S. study, those people who get most of their daily liquids from plain water instead of other drinks tend to have healthier diets overall.
Using data from a national health survey [...]
Years ago, after dark on October 31, shrill cries of “Halloween Apples!” rang out in neighborhoods all over North America. The source: small children in masks and costumes, amped up on too much candy and adrenaline, lugging pillow cases that bulged with loot weighing almost as much as they did, and racing madly from door to door, desperate for [...]
When it comes to sleep, Olympic athletes take it very seriously—
and so should you.
Bringing home the gold means the world to world-class athletes competing in the Olympics; obviously they need their sleep. For the rest of us who can only dream of championship performance, counting sheep is just as important. A sleeper who needs eight [...]
Gaining weight? Rather go back to bed, skip the gym, and still weigh less? Well, while you’re sleeping on it, you actually can. Sounds strange, but medical evidence suggests that how much and how well you sleep affects how much you weigh.
Sleep affects your hormones, and recently doctors have linked sleep to appetite. Recent research [...]
Not long ago, health professionals were warning parents to keep their kids away from drinking too much fruit juice because of its link to obesity. However, a recent study has found no association between childhood obesity and 100 percent fruit juice with no sugar added. “That’s big news,” says Dr. Pamela Rockwell, D.O., assistant professor in the [...]
Are you a ginger?
The 2% of the world’s population that currently has red hair inherited a gene that once helped humans make vitamin D from sunlight. If you want to boost the odds of landing your very own Nicole Kidman, Lindsay Lohan, or Conan O’Brien, head to Scotland—13% of the population there has red hair, and [...]
Tattoos seem to be more popular every day. With more and more tattoo afficionados turning to tattoo portraiture, Spacelocker investigates some of the prickly questions about getting a tattoo.
What is a tattoo, anyway?
Tattoos, also called skin illustrations or body art, result when colored ink is injected into small holes made a deep layer of the [...]
Shiny hair is healthy hair.
It’s hard to keep hair shiny and healthy when you use a hair dryer, curling iron, flat iron, hair color, bleach, heat, and other styling tools and techniques that rough up your hair cuticles. It’s your cuticles that lock your hair onto your follicles. And heaven help those who mess with [...]
The 80s revival has been popping up everywhere—in cyberspace and beyond—lately. Eighties themes are used well outside of the mainstream—starting with bright pink hair and matching aqua makeup and hair accessories.
The 80s . . . designers have taken that era of shoulder pads, multicolor eyeshadow, and wet-look hair and given it a good and well-deserved [...]
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but your tattoo is an expression of your personality. Every time you turn around, you spot another celebrity with yet another celebrity tattoo. Screen stars to extreme sport athletes, runway models to basketball heroes, bikers to red hot mamas . . . the ink flows like [...]