Bad news for Margarine fans: it’s not much healthier for you than butter. In fact, most evidence points to the product being far less healthy in the long run. When margarine products began flooding grocery stores in the late 70’s and early 80’s, owners of Unilever stock (and other companies) got rich – and our …

Feeling so hungry that you can begin to sense intense rage brewing up inside of you is an emotion that the majority of us can probably relate to. Many may assume that “hanger”, the combination of feeling hungry and angry, is a slang term that was coined with absolutely no scientific basis. However, according to …

Roger Federer is skipping the clay season so that he can be as fit and fresh as possible for the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. Even at 36, Federer continues to marvel on the courts, and he triumphed at the first major of the year, the Australian Open. But to maintain his sporting dominance, Federer has to …

You know the scene: stress feels like it’s bubbling over, and suddenly where there was once a full bag of crisps, there are now just a few crumbs. This unconscious hand-to-mouth eating has a biological explanation: when you’re anxious, your brain tends to focus on an immediate reward (a tasty bite), while forgetting a long-term …

“Pick your poison…” When we drink alcohol, our body interprets it as the equivalent of poison. The reasons are quite simple: alcohol has no nutritional value, and it damages cells. As such, whatever adult beverage we drink is sent to the liver to be broken down into chemicals that can pass through the urinary tract. …