Is there really a safe, over the counter pill that can increase muscle and get rid of fat?
ey're not going to turn you into an action hero or a swimsuit model overnight but you might want to buy some fish oil capsules: Background To determine the effects of supplemental fish oil (FO) on resting metabolic rate (RMR), body composition, and cortisol production in healthy adults. Methods A total of 44 men and women (34 ± 13y, mean+SD) participated in the study. All testing was performed first thing in the morning following an overnight fast. Baseline measurements of…
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What’s an excellent productivity secret we can learn from Jerry Seinfeld?
a Lifehacker: He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker. He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day.…
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5 things you didn’t know about body language:
bsp; 1) Men can tell if women are fertile by the way they walk and psychopaths can tell who is a good victim by their stride. 2) You can learn to be more charismatic. 3) Hand position can signal power or submissiveness. 4) There are types of body language that are better when you're trying to persuade someone. 5) Sitting up straight can make you feel more powerful, act more powerfully, feel less pain and increase your self-confidence... unless you're…
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How much do our personalities change over time?
cording to this study, fundamental personality traits don't change much from childhood to adulthood: The continuity of personality’s association with directly observed behavior is demonstrated across two contexts spanning four decades. During the 1960s, elementary school teachers rated personalities of members of the ethnically diverse Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort. The same individuals were interviewed in a medical clinic more than 40 years later. Trained coders viewed video recordings of a subset of these interviews (N = 144; 68 female,…
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Can money make us more satisfied with our lives — but not any happier?
niel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, makes an interesting distinction: high income makes us more satisfied with our lives but it does not make us happier. What's the difference? If you ask people with more money "Are you happier with your life overall?" they're more likely to respond affirmatively and mean it. If you randomly approach them during the day and say "How happy are you right now?" they're not any more likely to…
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Does being “spiritual but not religious” make you happier?
bsp; Probably not much. Most of the happiness benefit from faith comes from the socializing associated with religious attendance: Although the positive association between religiosity and life satisfaction is well documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy surrounds the question of how religion actually shapes life satisfaction. Using a new panel dataset, this study offers strong evidence for social and participatory mechanisms shaping religion’s impact on life satisfaction. Our findings suggest that religious people are more satisfied with their lives because…
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Are managers taller?
s: The heights of female and male corporate employees in management and nonmanagement positions were evaluated in two studies in order to determine if there were height differences between the two groups, and if there were any gender × job status (management or nonmanagement) interactions with respect to height. Two studies were conducted having 201 and 200 subjects respectively. Both studies used a two-factor (gender × job status) factorial design and both studies showed that managerial (high status) employees were…
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Are the mentally and physically handicapped as happy as everyone else?
s: Three studies tested the proposition that membership in a fixed-status class would be unrelated to life satisfaction. In two studies questionnaire responses of handicapped persons were compared with those of normals. In the third study the observed moods of 40 mentally retarded children were compared with those of 40 normals. Results seemed to demonstrate essential equivalence in life satisfaction for handicapped, retarded, and normal persons. Source: "The Life Satisfaction of Nonnormal Persons" from Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,…
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