Life & Style

Are you ‘tired but wired’? These SIX everyday habits are zapping your energy levels
04:40 2018-01-11

For people who feel ‘tired but wired’, these six everyday habits could be zapping their energy levels. According to registered nutritional therapist Jackie Lynch, everything from not eating enough protein to dehydration and dodging carbohydrates leave people feeling permanently exhausted. While starting your morning with a dose of caffeine may seem like a logical way …

The mental health benefits of going for a walk can last for 7 hours, according to pioneering new study
00:43 2018-01-11

We have long been aware of the positive effects spending time outdoors can have on our mental health and wellbeing, and now there is an eye-opening new study which has confirmed our beliefs and made that a fact. The pioneering project has scientifically proven, for the first time ever, that being outdoors has a positive …

Boy’s hair completely frozen after walk to school in rural China
21:03 2018-01-10

A Chinese schoolboy’s fate has caught the attention of millions of people after a picture of his icicle hair became widely shared online. The child, from rural China, had just spent more than an hour walking 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) to school on a harsh winter morning, the Daily Mail reports. Wearing a thin layer …

Men have 43 hours of leisure time a week – almost five hours more than women – and it’s because they never help with housework
10:43 2018-01-10

Men in the UK enjoy almost five more hours of leisure time a week than women, according to official analysis. In 2015 men took, on average, 43 hours of leisure time per week – compared with around 38 hours for women. Women work more because they spend hours completing unpaid work such as household chores …

5 Genius Russian Tricks for Surviving Sub-Zero Weather
06:39 2018-01-10

If you’re in North America right now, you know it’s cold. It’s colder than it is in Moscow, colder than it is in Mars. It’s so cold that stupefied iguanas are falling out of southern trees. So cold that the entirety of the U.S. has turned into the sequel to Frozen. So cold that icicles …