Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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Since the dawn of time, humans have wondered if there is anything beyond this life. Death is, after all, at the heart of everything we do. Without the knowledge that one day, we won't be around anymore, we wouldn't really be motivated to do anything. [caption id="attachment_12510138" align="aligncenter" width="760"] Credit:…
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According to doctors, Kendra and Maliyah Herrin shouldn't have lived past 24 hours. But the conjoined twins beat the odds and were successfully 'cut in half' at age four. They now live life as typical teenagers who have one leg each. The sisters, who only shared one kidney, an abdomen,…
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Ah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, what's not to like? Back in the 80s and early 90s, before the superhero film deluge changed film forever, this giant Austrian man was the biggest movie star in the world. Making his name in the 1984 sci-fi horror movie The Terminator, Schwarzenegger started his career insanely…
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An American woman was left with a horrific infection after her microblading treatment went wrong. The woman, who has chosen to remain unidentified, appeared on the US television show, The Doctors, where specialists in health and wellness dissect trends, real-life issues, and dispense medical advice. In this particular episode, presenter…
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A woman says that suspending herself from hooks embedded in her skin has helped combat her eating disorder. Breanna Cornell, a marathon runner who hails from Arizona, says that her unusual hobbies have helped her combat anorexia and body dysmorphia by pushing her physical endurance to its absolute limit. Furthermore,…
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Women face constant, unfair pressures over their appearances, be it through the filtered corridors of Instagram or via the glossy covers of magazines. One of the biggest indicators of this kind of double standard is the way in which women are taught to vivify their grey hairs. We'll all go…
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Cannabis is now legal in 10 US states, all of Canada and - like many of the remaining US states - Europe is embracing decriminalisation. As the green tide spreads, so too does the normalisation of cannabis use. According to a United Nations report, the use of the drug increased…
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Pickles are one of those foods that people either love or hate. Some people can munch their way through an entire jar and still crave more, while others blanch at the sight of them and pick them off their burgers. However, now a snack company is aiming to launch a…
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Most people these days are familiar with botox: the practice of injecting a (pretty dangerous) substance into the face in order to relax the muscles and soften the appearance of wrinkles. What people might be less familiar with, however, is 'Scrotox' - the same procedure... but carried out on the…
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Despite wanting nothing other than to avoid killing animals and promote saving the planet, vegans often get a bad rap. So what gives? Maybe it's got something to do with their preachy nature, and how they're always telling us that we probably shouldn't kill so many pigs, or keep so…
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There are plenty of reasons why people opt for yoga as their main source of fitness. The health benefits of yoga - both mental and physical - are extraordinary. It promotes better flexibility, balance, strength, and decreases your cholesterol and stress levels. But if the advice of one particular yoga…
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Sometimes, we need a wakeup call to make a big change in our lives. For mother-of-three Kelly Rothery, from Leeds in Yorkshire, the thing that convinced her to lose weight was stepping on a set of scales just after her husband, only to discover that she was heavier than him.…
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If you like to keep abreast of developments in the dieting community, you will be well aware that beer doesn’t tend to feature prominently on most plans. This may be because the vast majority of medical professionals agree that alcohol, and beer in particular, directly contributes to health issues like…
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A graphic video has emerged on social media, which sadly shows a female weightlifter snapping her arm in two places while attempting to lift an incredibly heavy barbell. The graphic clip shows 30-year-old weightlifter Gaelle Nayo Ketchanke sustain horrific injuries while competing in the women's 76kg category for France, at…
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A farmer from China had to be hospitalised recently after a mysterious disease had started to "eat away at his arm." The 65-year-old told man, who has not been named, turned up at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in Guangzhou with massive trauma to his arm. He told doctors that he…
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A woman who managed to transform her body through weight loss claims that doing so has helped 'reverse' her diabetes. Katy McMillan, a 28-year-old woman from Scotland, was 18 when doctors diagnosed her with diabetes, after discovering that her blood sugar levels were sky-high while they prepped her for an…
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The Chinese company Sanwe makes a variety of medical equipment, including automatic sperm extractors, colposcopes, ultrasound scanners and - you're still thinking about about the automatic sperm extractors, aren't you? Well, get used to it! What you see, you cannot unsee. Twitter user @AngryManTV shared video clips of the devices,…
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Last January, Gillette released an ad criticizing 'toxic masculinity' in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The video depicts men at their worst - bullying, catcalling, groping, fighting, mansplaining - while a long line of dudes grilling meat chant "Boys will be boys!" Then sobering news reports play of famous…
