Burger showdown: veggie vs. turkey What’s more nutritious: A veggie burger or a turkey burger? We’ve crunched the numbers, and you can find out in our latest health food face-off. Daydream less, stay younger A new study published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science shows that mind-wanderers (those who tend to stray from the present moment) have shorter telomeres—the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten as we get older—by 200 base pairs, which equals about four years of additional aging. Coax your wayward mind back to reality with our advice. Do you really need an annual physical? Maybe not, says new research published in the British Medical Journal. Experts concluded that routine annual physicals actually did more harm than good for healthy adult patients, largely because the appointments led to the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of relatively mild conditions. Read on to find out whether you can safely skip that trip to the MD. The crazy way to grow more hair Researchers writing in the FASEB Journal have found that a common glaucoma drug can spur hair growth on the human scalp. Of course, it might take years before this preliminary investigation yields real-world results—so check out our tips for a fuller, lusher head of hair today.
