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How to Break Through a Lifting Plateau
21/10/2025
When you start lifting, those first few weeks are bliss. Sure, maybe you’re sore sometimes and get confused about how to do each new exercise, but you can add weight to the bar every week, maybe every workout, and you feel unstoppable. No gain train goes on forever though, so what do you do when the weights stop going up?...
Here’s What Asthma Symptoms Really Feel Like During an Attack
18/10/2025
To get an idea of what it’s like to live with asthma symptoms, try this the next time you meet your friends for happy hour: Instead of tossing the skinny cocktail straw that comes with your drink, try breathing through it. That’s right. Shake it dry, bring it to your mouth, and use it to inhale and exhale for two full minutes—the duration, give or take a few seconds...
The One Breakfast Trick for a Flat Belly All Day, Say Experts
15/10/2025
Even if there are weight loss programs that say you need to skip breakfast in order to slim down, many experts agree that the one breakfast strategy to lose weight and get a flat belly is to actually eat breakfast, not skip it. Studies have observed that people who eat a protein- and/or fiber-rich breakfast regularly tend to have a lower...
Tempeh vs. Tofu: Which Plant-Based Protein Is Healthier for You?
12/10/2025
Here’s How Long To Sleep Each Night for Optimal Brain Function
09/10/2025
Connecting the dots between sleep and cognition has long been tricky, mostly because the relationship is bidirectional rather than causal. That is, poor sleep can trigger cognitive decline, but also, symptoms of that same decline can disrupt sleep. But, a new new study just successfully teased out exactly how much sleep may be ideal for brain health...
Ask a Beauty Editor: How to Know Your Skin Type
29/09/2025
Last week, I talked about the best moisturizers for combination skin, but that brought me to another more simple—but essential—skincare question from a reader: how to know what type of skin you have. Although it's impossible to categorize something as nuanced as your skin into a singular class, it does serve as a good baseline when looking...
3 Key Macronutrients to Eat Every Day (and How They Differ From Micronutrients)
26/09/2025
When diving into the world of nutrition, there are a lot of different factors you can focus on. Everywhere you turn it seems that someone is touting the next obscure micronutrient purported to radically change your health. When it comes down to it, though, nutrition is built on three main macronutrients that pretty much everyone is at least somewhat familiar with...
How to Stop & Soothe Negative Thought Spirals
23/09/2025
It’s a tough world out there right now. With so much uncertainty, fear, and intense energy in the news (and it has been in the news consistently for a long, long time), it’s no wonder why so many of us find ourselves spiraling through worst case scenarios and scary thoughts and feelings...
15 Benefits of Walking That Will Make You Want to Lace Up
20/09/2025
Walking isn’t always the quickest way to make it from point A to point B. But it’s not just about quick transport: The benefits of walking for your body and mind are numerous. So it’s not exactly a surprise that when it comes to the fastest-growing activities, it’s near the top of the list, according to new data from Strava.
In its Year in Sport 2021 report, released in December, the workout tracking app found walking was twice as popular in 2021 as it was...
How to Start Cutting Back on Sugar in Just 7 Days, According to a Dietitian
17/09/2025
Get rid of easy-to-grab sweets in your pantry or drawer—cookies...