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Perhaps you remember this 2010 Super Bowl ad. It’s just one iteration of a popular Snickers commercial theme, one that capitalizes on the idea that hunger temporarily turns manly men into wimps (no offense to Betty White). The commercial positions Snickers as an inherently masculine food, and drives home the idea that certain foods are meant for certain genders. What’s more, according to new research published in the journal Social Psychology, “manly” foods are almost always unhealthy....

According to a recent study published in Psychological Science, both men and women are less ethical in the afternoon than they are in the morning. And while the phenomenon can apply to matters of the heart, it’s far from exclusive, with researchers claiming that it also applies to how men and women interact with friends, coworkers, teachers, and bosses. In the study, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business had study participants look at patterns of dots on a split screen....

Strolling of the Heifers, a group dedicated to celebrating the animals and people behind small family farms, just released its second Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, ranking all 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of their commitment to local foods. To come up with the list, researchers looked at farmer’s markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA), and local food hub data and compared it to consumers’ interest in eating local foods, otherwise known as locavorism....

What’s that? Ignorance is bliss? You’d actually rather not know? You already read The Jungle in high school? Too late! Welcome to the life span of a food recall in the US, as told by summer 2014’s massive recall of sprouted chia seed products, an ideal poster child for the recall cycle, considering there’s been at least one “sproutbreak” (foodsafety.gov’s actual term for this) every year since 1995. Put your lunch aside and join us—it’s time to get friendly with the food safety circuit....

In a recent experiment, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers measured telomere length in blood samples of 152 healthy people. Then, the scientists deliberately tried to infect the volunteers with a common cold virus. The result: Participants with shorter telomeres in their white blood cells were more likely to become ill. While a portion of your telomere length is genetically determined, you still have the ability to impact their size....

Creamy Peanut SlawServes 4Combine 3 Tbsp peanut butter, 3 Tbsp rice vinegar, 2 Tbsp warm water, 2 Tbsp lime juice, 1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger, 11⁄2 tsp Sriracha sauce, and 1⁄2 tsp soy sauce. Mix that son of a btch well. Combine 3 cups each thinly sliced red and green cabbage, 1 thinly cut carrot, and 1⁄3 cup thinly sliced green onions. Toss all around until everything is coated. NUTRITION (per serving) 130 cal, 4 g pro, 17 g carb, 4 g fiber, 10 g sugars, 6 g fat, 1 g sat fat, 350 mg sodium Baked Zucchini ChipsServes 4Heat oven to 350°F....

Roasted Butternut Squash Prep Time: 10 minutesTotal Time: 50 minutes Makes 8 cups 8 c cubed (1") butternut squash (about 4 lb peeled, seeded, and cubed) 2 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp ground allspice 1/2 tsp ground coriander 1/4 tsp pepper 1 tsp kosher salt Heat oven to 425°F.2. Toss squash with oil in large bowl. Combine cumin, allspice, coriander, salt, and pepper in small bowl....

For example, this Monday is notorious for “cyberloafing” (AKA screwing around on the Internet). Researchers from Penn State University found that study participants engaged in 8.4 minutes more of cyberloafing (or 20 percent of the subject’s assigned task time) for every hour of interrupted sleep the night before. Health can also suffer. A new study from the University of Alabama finds that our bodies become 10 percent more likely to have a heart attack the morning following the spring forward....

With the Tricep Dip and Kick exercise, you get to channel your inner Rockette with leg kicks while toning long, lean, beautiful arms. And because this exercise is done in a reverse tabletop position, you’re also sculpting strong, sexy shoulders. Fitness expert and personal trainer Chris Freytag loves the Tricep Dip and Kick so much that she featured this move, along with other total-body toners, on her new workout DVD with Prevention magazine, Get Your Body Back: Fit, Firm & Fabulous....

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But healthy is the key: The finding only applied to men with a healthy weight and low risk of heart disease. Overweight weekend warriors had a greater risk of keeling over from a heart attack. “We still believe that at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise most days of the week is best, but for healthy men, some exercise is better than nothing,” says study author I-Min Lee, MD. (Find out how you can turn him on—to walking....

Guest-Jelley, a yoga teacher, went along with her diagnosis. When the doctor reported that Guest-Jelley’s x-ray didn’t show any fractures, she returned home with instructions to ice her foot—and an all-too-familiar feeling of humiliation at the physician’s focus on her size. “Almost every time I’ve ever gone to a doctor’s appointment, I’ve experienced some level of shaming because of my weight,” she says. Her experience is shockingly common. Weight stigma is on the rise in America, according to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, and, ironically, nowhere is it more deeply rooted than among health care providers....

Your 5 Eat-Right Rules [pagebreak] SAMPLE MENU 1 BREAKFAST Cereal 1 cup unsweetened high-fiber flakes topped with 1 cup fat-free milk and 1 cup fresh strawberries, sliced. Nutritional Information (per serving): 398 cal, 19 g pro, 64 g carb, 16 g fiber, 8 g fat, 1 g sat fat, 5 mg chol, 254 mg sodium 200-CALORIE SNACK Yogurt 6 ounces fat-free mixed with 1 teaspoon honey and 3 level tablespoons low-fat granola....

Why is that? I’ve seen it happen so many times to my weight loss patients that when they come in and confess they fell off the wagon, I’m ready with my ritual response: “Who did this to you?” They’re always shocked to think that someone else may have had a hand in their weight loss failure. Then it dawns on them: Oh yeah, the chocolate cake care package Mom just sent, the surprise candy from the usually unthoughtful husband, the coworker who left the gift-wrapped Oreos on your desk....

Unless you have a green thumb, lots of outdoor space, and the time to grow your own grub, sticking to a diet free of processed ingredients can be challenging. (If you are that person, can we come over for dinner?) Otherwise, you do your best, eating whole foods whenever possible, and opting for the most unadulterated, natural options you can find when you buy from the box or the bag....

Even better, these findings are the result of a single session—so you don’t have to feel guilty about the splurge. (The American Massage Therapy Association can help find a therapist near you.) Fighting flu is the latest in a long line of massage benefits. Previous studies show that it can also improve the quality of sleep and reduce high blood pressure, migraines, and lower back pain. Still, we know how hard it can be to find time and money to indulge....

If you’ve ever doubted yourself, you will understand why my wanting this column to be perfect launched a train of self-defeating thoughts about whether I was good enough to even write it. My superego—that part of the psyche that can act like a punitive drill sergeant on speed—began preaching the gospel of perfectionism and filling me with self-doubt: What if this article is lousy and they fire me? Mired in perfectionist thinking, I temporarily lost my center of awareness....