Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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A Walmart employee with Down Syndrome has been awarded $125 million after suing the store when they fired her. According to The Daily Mail, a woman named Marlo Spaeth had worked in a branch of the grocery store chain in Manitowoc, Wisconsin for 16 years. However, she was fired from…
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A TikTok influencer has taken her own life at the age of just 19 years old. According to The Daily Mirror, Caitlyn Loane had managed to accrue more than 97,000 followers on the social media platform with her vlog posts all about working on a farm in rural Tasmania. Loane…
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A fitness influencer has reportedly died after undergoing a botched procedure to cure herself of excessive underarm sweating. According to the Mexican newspaper Milenio, 23-year-old bodybuilder Odalis Santos Mena, traveled to the SkinPiel clinic in Guadalajara, Mexico, on July 7. Mena had been approached to promote the special antiperspirant treatment…
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A woman has shared the story of how staff at her gym told her to "cover-up or leave" after she wore a t-shirt to her workout. TikTok user Alana - who goes by the handle @pennevodkaplease on the platform - took to her account earlier this week to share the…
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A woman who went viral on social media for putting Gorilla Glue on her hair has launched her own haircare line. Tessica Brown, a 40-year-old who also goes by the social media handle @Im_D_Ollad, became infamous on TikTok earlier this year after she applied the extra-strong adhesive to her scalp…
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There's no doubt that abortion is a contentious issue. Many women around the world are fighting for their right to chose whether or not they can terminate a pregnancy, and the activists who are struggling for this are both lauded and criticized from either side. But there is an emotional…
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There are many people out there who really struggle with math. This anxiety around equations, and a general lack of numeracy, might be something that's discouraging you from taking an IQ test and measuring your own brainpower. Yet according to Mensa, the world’s oldest and most exclusive high IQ society,…
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A former Starbucks employee has taken to TikTok to share how baristas secretly punish rude customers. Per Independent, the now-private video was shared with the 38,100 followers of an ex-Starbucks worker who goes by the handle @dolltin on the platform. In it, the former barista revealed that he would punish…
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Do you hate working long hours? Most people do. But it turns out that pulling overtime isn't just tedious and stressful... it's actually bad for your health. A newly-published study has found that overwork kills approximately 745,000 people every year due to a variety of knock-on adverse health effects, such…
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A psychologist has taken to TikTok this week to share an incredible optical illusion that has left social media users baffled. Dr. Julie Smith, a psychologist with a practice in Ringwood in Hampshire, took to the social media platform to post a bizarre clip demonstrating how viewers watching can trick…
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A teenage girl with Down's Syndrome has lifted everybody's spirits after crying tears of joy in a heartwarming video. According to People magazine, 14-year-old Bree Cox, who hails from the town of Murray in Utah, was recorded weeping in footage that has since emerged on social media. The emotional clip…
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A dancer is inspiring others with her Q&A sessions on TikTok after losing her hand in a boating accident. Twenty-three-year-old Kristie Sita had her hand ripped off in a tragic boating accident at the age of 16 back in 2014. According to New York Post, Kristie had been celebrating graduating from…
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A doctor working in palliative care has shared the most common regret she hears from people on their deathbed. The physician, who goes by the handle @tripat.sahi on TikTok, took to the platform to share a video on the subject of what she most often hears from terminally ill people.…
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A doctor has revealed how those without medical insurance can save money on their hospital bills. Taking to TikTok, Dr. Jenaya Calderilla gave her expert advice on how to reduce those hefty charges that can easily rack up to tens of thousands of dollars. While it's impossible to avoid a…
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A man has used his late father's ashes to help him bowl a perfect game this week, in a touching tribute. According to The New York Post, John Hinkle Jr, the son of NCAA bowling champion John Hinkle Senior, decided to honor his late father by filling a bowling ball…
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A video has emerged on TikTok showing a "cleaning queen" giving the home of an elderly couple a makeover. The footage was originally shared by a TikTok user going by the handle @aurikatariina, a self-proclaimed cleaning fanatic who enjoys helping other people get their living space spic and span. [caption…
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A young boy has died after attempting a viral challenge circulating on TikTok. Joshua Haileyesus, a 12-year-old boy from Aurora in Colorado, had been hospitalized and left comatose after his brother discovered him lying unconscious on the bathroom floor on March 22. [caption id="attachment_1263102854" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Credit: GoFundMe/Screenshot[/caption] It is…
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The World Health Organization has called for a worldwide ban on live animals in food markets. The Daily Mail reports that this comes after a joint study by WHO and health officials in China into the origins of Covid, which claims that so-called wet markets in Wuhan were a likely source…
