Why Reading is the Best Workout for Your Brain
Often compared to a workout for the brain, reading stimulates various cognitive functions and has the potential to significantly improve our mental capacity.
Often compared to a workout for the brain, reading stimulates various cognitive functions and has the potential to significantly improve our mental capacity.
Often compared to a workout for the brain, reading stimulates various cognitive functions and has the potential to significantly improve our mental capacity.
At a certain point in the Western world, it can feel like your doctor has given up on finding solutions for the creaks and strains
The Japanese call it “Manpo-kei” — literally, 10,000 steps meter.
Since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, when all of Japan was rigidly focused on fitness, both individual and collective, there has been a pervasive theory among fitness gurus that 10,000 steps is necessary as a base line to maintain proper health. Any exercise beyond 10,000 steps is simply extra.
10,000 steps, by the way, is about 5 miles.
2020 exposed many areas in our supply chain where resources were finite, and showed us what could happen should we start to run low on
Fad diets have a bad reputation — for many more reasons than what they can do to your gut’s microbiome.
Lots of them forego essential nutrition for the sake of weight loss. Think about low-carb diets.
Lots of them are obviously ill-advised now, but at one point were taken seriously. Like this fad diet found in Vogue magazine in the 1970s.
Connection and its mysterious ways have long plagued humanity – anthropologists, advertisers, parents, linguists, psychologists, mail carriers, romantic partners… Everyone is just as curious and confused