Podcast: Play in new window | Download What do a morning jog and a Seinfeld rerun have in common? One makes you sweat and one makes you giggle, but they could both increase your tolerance to pain. This is only the latest similarity found between exercise and laughter. For one, laughter can be a form [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Tapped for time but want to get a good sweat in and burn calories? Don’t cancel your date with the gym — you can, in fact, fit in a workout and still have time to create a healthy homemade dinner. The solution is interval training, or short bursts [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Once the hot flashes, mood swings and spotting start, women often turn to hormone replacement therapy, or H-R-T, to quell these symptoms and ease past menopause. H-R-T can also prevent bone fractures from osteoporosis, but the latest research shows that the practice’s risks may outweigh its benefits. A [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download If you want to increase your productivity in 2013, start by increasing your happiness. When you’re being positive, dopamine floods your system, making you happier and turning on all the learning centers in your brain. As a result, intelligence and energy levels increase and employees are 31 percent [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The sharp pain brought on by gout has been compared to being stabbed by a hot knife. Almost 4 percent of the American population has, at one time, suffered from such an attack, often concentrated in the big toe. Given the connection between the illness and the consumption [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Modern understanding of the lymphatic system … a network of vessels that removes waste products from the body and supports the immune system … goes back to the 15th century. Will the 21st century be known for the discovery of the “glymphatic” system? Researchers with the University of [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Here’s one more reason to put the phone away — and look twice before you cross the street, no matter how old you are. New research shows that teens are twice as likely as adults to get hit by a car because they were distracted by a phone [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download You’ve heard the phrase “Talk to your doctor” dozens of times, tacked onto ads on everything from cold medicine to antidepressants. But now experts are bringing new meaning to the phrase as they ask patients to think twice about requesting tests and procedures physicians say are often unnecessary. [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Philosophers no less learn-ed than Aristotle have pondered the dilemma of the chicken and the egg. They wonder in circles … which came first? … because you can’t have one without the other. Today, let’s look at a variation of the classic “Which came first” dilemma. Do you [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download A popular New Year’s dish in the South is a mashup of beans, peppers and onions called “hoppin’ John,” believed to bring good luck for those who eat it. Southerners have the right idea — it’s smart to start off the New Year and every day after with [...]