A tired brain is its own worst enemy. When you’re at work, all you can think about is a nap. When it’s actually time to sleep, you can’t stop thinking about how to make tomorrow more productive. If that sounds familiar, you’re in good company. More than three in four…
If you’re like most college students, you have three modes during finals week: sleep, eat, and study. If you’re not actively taking an exam, you’re recuperating or cramming for the next one. To an outsider, that schedule might not sound too bad. How stressful can tests actually be? More stressful…
Most supplements come in a single package: a pill. For nearly half of American adults, that’s a problem. Although nearly 9 in 10 Americans take a supplement of some sort, 40 percent say they struggle to swallow pills. A pill is a solid substance, which we’re tempted to chew so…
After years of uncertainty, business travel is booming again. Although industry group Global Business Travel Association is still crunching the data, it projects business travel spending grew by 7.1 percent worldwide last year. By 2022, GBTA predicts the market will be nearly $400 billion larger than it was in 2017.…
Who says afternoon is snack time? If you ask us, snack time is whenever hunger gets in the way of work. For better or worse, our team’s productivity starts to sag in the mid-morning. About an hour or two before lunch, we start scrounging for office snacks to tide us…
Do you want an office snack that tastes good, or do you want one that’s good for you? It’s a devil’s choice; fortunately, it’s also a false one. A study of 10,000 snacking professionals found that their 10 favorite office snacks — including yogurt, string cheese, dark chocolate, protein bars,…
It might be the single best guideline for healthy eating: The less refined a food is, the better. Although not all processed foods are unhealthy, the great majority of them are. Through added sugars, salts, and fats, processed foods tend to be engineered for overconsumption. During processing, they’re often stripped…
Whether you have celiac disease or not, gluten might cause gut issues. Mounting evidence shows that, particularly for people with irritable bowel syndrome and similar food sensitivities, eating wheat proteins in significant quantities may cause inflammation and impair digestion. Take IBS, which affects around 10 to 15 percent of Americans.…
It might be time to tweak your diet: According to a landmark study on spicy food consumption, the “no pain, no gain” principle really does hold water. With a sample size of 0.5 million adults, Chinese researchers discovered that participants who ate spicy foods at least six days per week…
Sometimes, it seems like Americans can’t agree on anything. Their eating habits, it appears, are no exception. Since 2014, the number of Americans who identify as vegans has grown by more than 600 percent. On the other hand, U.S. meat consumption hit a record high last year, with 96 percent…