One of the happier consequences of the coronavirus pandemic was that and other diseases were registered all over the world. Clearly, commonsense precautions against airborne infections work. The …
How Oral Hygiene Impacts Your Overall Health
Explaining complex things usually means reducing them to their component parts, then taking it from there. This works well in the classroom, but it's not always a fair reflection of reality. We …
Empty Calories vs Whole-Food Diets
Cooking shows have become hugely popular in the last couple of years. Sadly, like televised sports, people are more likely to watch them for entertainment rather than inspiration. At the same …
Percussion Massage Benefits, Risks, and Usage
It's no secret that a good massage, whether done by hand or by using devices designed for the purpose, leaves you feeling invigorated; it relieves pain and can speed recovery from injuries, chronic …
The How and Why of Hair Loss
A normal, healthy person sheds about eighty to a hundred and fifty hairs per day. This is nothing unusual: some of your follicles are just resting and will start to produce new hairs once they've …
Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Teeth
Have you ever met someone who seemed really attractive ... until the moment they opened their mouths? Sometimes this is a question of them saying the wrong thing, but (too often) it's because they've …
The Good (and Bad) Health Effects of Coffee
Asking whether coffee is good or bad for you, without any context, is a little like asking whether eating beef harms your health. Biting into a steak probably won't kill you, but taking a knife to a …
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Explained
There are, unfortunately, plenty of things in everyday life that can kill you. A traffic accident, slipping in the shower or choking on a chicken nugget can all happen when you least expect it. Most …
Tips and Tricks to Help you Get to Sleep
Sleeping is one of the easiest things to do, so why can it be so difficult to fall asleep and then stay asleep? Personally, I have fought with insomnia in different periods of my life. The problem …
The Right Number of Steps to Take Each Day
Sports scientists and personal trainers actually disagree on a great many important things. Even so, most of them will tell you that if you want to burn fat fast, you should aim at either: …
How Relative Humidity Affects Work
With the possible exception of a certain green cartoon character, nobody would call a swamp their favorite place in the world. For that matter, few people really love their workplaces all that much. …
Ideal Resting Heart Rate for Your Health
The first thing this article should make clear is this: there really is no "ideal" resting heart rate that applies to everyone, even people who seem physically similar. General recommendations are a …
How Accurate is a Wrist Heart Rate Monitor
If you care enough about your health and/or fitness to be thinking of buying a heart rate monitor, you may also care enough to want to know which you can trust to give a correct reading. There are, …
What Does a HEPA Filter Do, How Does It Work?
If you or someone you know has asthma, allergies, or a weakened immune system, you've probably heard or read about HEPA filters. You might have gotten the idea that it was a good thing in some way, …
The Long and the Short of Standing Desk Ergonomics
By now, it is pretty well accepted that sitting for long, uninterrupted periods each day is bad for your health – even if you're physically active otherwise. Under pressure from their employees, and …
Indoor Plants that Purify the Air
Most people are worried about what effect pollution is having on their bodies, but only in a very vague, general way. With so much contradictory information surrounding the topic, many aren't quite …
How Long do Germs Live on Surfaces?
Germs – they're everywhere. A single milliliter of "fresh" water might contain as many as a million bacteria, while even NASA's clean rooms have (rather embarrassingly) been found to contain . One …
The Health Risks of Prolonged Sitting
Everybody knows that physically active people have significantly better cardiovascular health. Every doctor in the world will advise you to get fit, feel better, and reduce your chances of joining the …