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Researchers at the University of Indiana have found that short bursts of exercise, rather than long durations, will help lower blood pressure. While the study found that both forms of exercise (short and long) lowered blood pressure by the same amount, the effect lasted for 11 hours with 10-minute walks compared to seven hours for 40 minutes of walking. What do the numbers mean? Depending on your Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar! You know you shouldn't, but sometimes a girl just can't help herself. You plan to meet up with friends for a drink after work, and one drink turns into many more, which then turns into a rough next morning. We hope you don't have a hangover reading this, because we bring you some not-so-good news. "There are Read more
Kids dubbing a girl a "slut" is overheard far too often across the nation. And it's not just high school or college girls we're talking about here. Middle school tween bullies commonly label girls they don't like or are mad at as "sluts." The American Association of University Women released a study this month that found 56 percent of the middle and high school girls surveyed were sexually Read more
We've been marching ominously toward the Doctor's fate at Lake Silencio in the second half of season six. The finale "The Wedding of River Song" does answer a lot of our questions, but in Doctor Who style, new threads and mysteries are added to the timey-wimey jumble. The episode begins in an earth where everything is askew; time stopped ticking and remains set on April 22, 2011 at 5:02 p.m., Read more
Pop quiz: how many Facebook friends do you have right this second? OK, now question two: how many of them are actually friends or family members you're close to and interact with regularly? According to research performed in the '90s by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, that number should be somewhere around 150. Dunbar has studied groups from ancient hunter-gatherers to GORE-TEX wet-suit factories, Read more
Birds of a feather flock together, indeed! A new study from the University of Indiana finds that happy people tend to tweet together; the same holds true for unhappy people, too. Researchers tracked 102,000 users over a six-month period, analyzing the emotional context of their tweets by the amount of positive and negative words they contained. The result: happier people tend to associate Read more
Foursquare has had over 400 million check-ins over the last year, and taking a closer look at the data behind them can lead to some interesting insight. For example, Foursquare's engineers used check-in data to determine the rudest cities, based on the number of curse words used in check-ins. The mechanics behind the data are a bit complicated, but the end results are interesting. Topping the Read more
The age of nonfat foods seems to be drawing to a close as the benefits of certain fats, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, make the headlines almost daily. Found mostly in cold-water fish like salmon (here's my new favorite wild salmon recipe), omega-3s do some wonderful things for your body. Here are five of them. Keeps the aches and pains at bay: Recent studies at University of Pittsburgh Read more
