by Amy Paturel | May 1, 2008 | Wellness
Diet long enough and you're bound to reach a phase where weight loss levels off and the scale is stuck on the same three digits for weeks or more. In fact, researchers from Drexel University find that dieters tend to reach plateaus at week three, week 10 and after...
by Chase Scheinbaum | Jun 5, 2008 | Wellness
Before the 1970s, only extremely health-conscious Americans ate yogurt. But thanks to its purported association with an especially long-lived people of the Caucasus Mountains, yogurt was heralded as a miracle health food and thrust into ubiquity. Some three decades...
by Sarah Feldberg | Jul 2, 2008 | Wellness
Browse amazon.com results for "insomnia" and amidst all the self-help books is a slim, seductively titled volume: Insomnia: A Cultural History by Eluned Summers-Bremner. Summers-Bremner, like any good cultural studies major, draws on the teachings of Freud...
by Chase Scheinbaum | Aug 6, 2008 | Wellness
Heroes tend to spring up in unlikely places. They’re often commonplace people who, by dint of circumstance and lack of choice, are forced to overcome insurmountable odds. Their shoulders suddenly bear a ponderous weight and they are spurred to action, compelled...
by Sarah Feldberg | Sep 4, 2008 | Wellness
Anecdotes about the naive misuse of chemicals in bygone times are always colorful; historians love to recount the etymology of the term “mad hatter” (which became part of the vernacular during a period when milliners used the neurotoxin mercury to clean...
