When it comes to health, weight and BMI get all of the attention, but there's one metric you're overlooking that has a bigger effect than you think.
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We're living in an age of online trends, and the latest one to drop promises to maximize the quality of your sleep, but what does the science say?
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Just because you don't know beforehand whether or not your fart will clear a room doesn't mean that science can't explain why it was so potent.
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Nowadays, we know how eclipses work, but in the past, they were rather mysterious events that became associated with some especially bad omens.
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Colon health is a delicate subject, so many people rely on folk wisdom instead of medical science, meaning they probably believe this common myth.
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If you've spent any time traveling in airplanes, you may have noticed that you're letting it rip more often, and there's a valid reason it happens.
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Whoever denied it, supplied it. Whoever smelt it, dealt it. Not all fart myths are factual, but there is one flatulent trope that's mostly true.
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When people try to improve their mental health, they tend to focus on exercise or meditation, but there be a tool that they've been overlooking.
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In its quest to better understand the effects of nuclear weaponry, the US military conducted a lot of tests, sometimes on its own soldiers.
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Autoimmune diseases are when the body's immune system turns against it self, and for some reason they're much more prevalent in women than men.
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Tracking of your health is important, and although some people look to the skin or hair to get an idea, there's one body part they might overlook.
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The US government has a reputation for conducting some less-than-reputable experiments on civilians, but it might have been worse for its soliders.
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Have you ever been examining something so intently that you fail to take notice of the big stuff in the world around you? There's a phrase for that.
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In general, when you've got the urge to poop, you should always relieve yourself, but what about when you can't? Is it okay to hold in your poop?
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Gen Z gets a fair amount of grief for supposedly being overly sensitive to the world, but there is one mental diagnosis that's rising in their cohort.
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The debates over AI are endless, but scientists have found that large language models actually affect how we think, even after we stop using the tech.
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Death is never a particularly pleasant thing, but not all deaths are necessarily made equal, with certain, severe cases usually being considerably more painful.
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Wearing sunscreen is always good advice when you have to spend time outside, but you may have heard some advice about sunscreen that just isn't true.
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If you're in the unlucky majority, you've woken up with a hangover at least once, but some people never seem to suffer, and that just seems unfair.
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Cancer is scary, and breast cancer and brain cancer are particularly frightening forms, but when it comes to lethality, one cancer has them beat.
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Sleepwalking isn't as uncommon as you might think, but there are still at least one misconception around it that you should probably be aware of.
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Schizophrenia can be one of the most debilitating mental illnesses, but there may be a weird way to diagnose it using a common optical illusion.
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There's no question that bottled water is great for keeping you hydrated on the go, but you might want to avoid reusing that plastic bottle.
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Although HIV is no longer a death sentence, it's still an incurable disease, but a new treatment on the horizon could eliminate the virus in newborns.
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Generally, most people want to avoid pain if they can help it, but a prominent doctor says there are two misconceptions you need to be aware of.
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If you're lucky, you're getting older, but there are ways to slow down how fast your brain ages, and one of them is actually a useful skill to have.
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If you're going to partake in the human experiment, you're going to barf at some point, so you might as well be able to separate fact from fiction.
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