Alena Hall
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Asheville, NC, United States
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How To Tell If A Bug Bite Needs Medical Attention
Look out for these warning signs. → Read More
So THAT'S When You Should See A Doctor For A Bug Bite
Is your bite swollen? Is the swelling spreading? → Read More
How Online Food Delivery Services Make It Easier For You To Eat Healthy
You can't exactly grab a box of chocolate chip cookies on a whim online, like you do at the grocery store. → Read More
10 Healthy Foods That Will Help You Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
Go ahead and give in to that pre-bedtime snack craving. Science has shown that proper diet and sleep quality go hand in hand, but hitting the hay with a satisfied stomach can also be crucial to a truly → Read More
Your Backyard Burgers Are Bursting With Gross Bacteria
Word to the wise: If you're planning on hosting an end-of-summer barbecue, don't even think about buying conventional ground beef for your burgers. Consumer Reports recently tested 458 pounds of ground → Read More
La lecture peut vous aider si vous vous sentez perdu, les conseils de deux bibliothérapeutes
PSYCHOLOGIE - Nous lisons tous, pour diverses raisons: pour nous documenter, pour le plaisir, pour nous tenir au courant de l’actualité, pour nous évader... Mais les romans peut av → Read More
A Science-Backed Reason To Reach For That 4th Cup Of Coffee
If you're one of the 93,000 men and women who were diagnosed with colon cancer this year, keep those coffee refills coming. A breakthrough study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported this week → Read More
This College Football Team Is Taking Their Sleep Game To A New Level
The key to a successful summer training camp has nothing to do with the football field. At least that's the operating principle for the University of Tennessee team. This year, each player has a sleep → Read More
Yes, FreshDirect And Blue Apron Are Healthier Than Grocery Shopping
It all comes down to impulse control. → Read More
This Is Your Brain On Sleep
It turns out the brain does some of its best work when we're at rest. Over the years, scientific studies have found that during our natural sleep cycles, our brains jump into action to perform many of → Read More
Transcendental Meditation Is Going Corporate. Here's Why That's A Good Thing.
Thanks to the continued research touting its advantages, meditation has hit the mainstream. More and more people are willing to give it a try, often despite a measure of initial skepticism. Nowhere is → Read More
Quelles positions prend-on pendant le sommeil ? Voici à quoi on ressemble quand on dort
SOMMEIL - Avons-nous conscience de ce qu'on fait quand on dort ? Nos confrères du HuffPost Lifestyle aux Etats-Unis ont entrepris de répondre à cette question et 15 personnes leur → Read More
Signification des rêves
SOMMEIL - Vous êtes-vous déjà réveillé(e) après un rêve particulièrement déroutant, en vous demandant ce qu'il pouvait bien signifier? L → Read More
How Americans Are Sleeping (So Far) In 2015
Bad news for those of you who included "sleep more" on your list of resolutions for this year. The team behind sleep-analyzing app Sleep Cycle spent the past six months gathering real-time data from 235,616 → Read More
Le sommeil double les chances de se souvenir de ce que l'on avait oublié
SOMMEIL - On savait déjà qu’une bonne nuit de sommeil avait une incidence positive sur les trous de mémoire. Il est aujourd’hui établi que le sommeil permet de → Read More
This Is What You Really Look Like While You Sleep
Are we ever really aware of all the things we do when we're sound asleep at night? HuffPost Lifestyle set out to answer that very question and gained permission from 15 people to let us bring a camera → Read More
When It Comes to Fitness, One Size Doesn't Fit All
Only until recently did I realize that information about one's physical makeup is part of a science called phenotyping, and that such insight can be used to determine the types of exercise that will work with your body, not against it. → Read More
Sleep Protects Our Memories In More Ways Than One
A solid night's sleep is known to protect your memories from bouts of forgetfulness -- and now we know it's making them more accessible, too. New research from the University of Exeter and the Basque Centre → Read More
6 Multitasking Strength Training Moves You Need To Try
No matter how jam-packed your summer schedule may be, you're never too busy to take care of yourself -- especially when the method you choose takes half the time of your typical running route or boot camp → Read More
Kroger Recalls Seasonings Due To Potential Salmonella Contamination
Attention all Kroger shoppers: Have a look at your spice rack. On July 27 the grocery conglomerate issued a recall of Kroger brand ground cinnamon, garlic powder, coarse ground black pepper and Bac’n Buds → Read More