For years we’ve been crediting endorphins, but it’s really about the endocannabinoids. We can stop crediting endorphins, the natural opioid painkillers produced by our bodies, for the floaty euphoria we often feel during aerobic exercise, according to a nifty new study of men, women and treadmills. In the study, runners …
Read More »The Curse of Being a High Achiever
Where are my high achievers at? These are the folks that constantly knock their goals out of the park and make it look easy, whether they’re training for a marathon, dialing in their diet, or Marie Kondo-ing their house. They’re the ones who get the promotions, the bigger bank accounts, …
Read More »Apparently, Selling Branded Paper Bags Online At High Prices Is A Thing In M’sia
Times are hard. Over the past year, we’ve seen many individuals starting their own home businesses to earn extra income from the first MCO. On a recent online shopping experience, my boss came across a merchant on Lazada selling what is claimed to be an original branded paper bag from …
Read More »4 Digital Skills That Are In High Demand & Where You Can Learn Them In Malaysia
In their 2020 COVID-19 Labour Pulse Survey, employment agency Randstad Malaysia found that 91% of Malaysians intend to upskill and reskill. Dictionary Time: Reskilling is the process of learning new skills so you can do a different job, or of training people to do a different job. Talentguard 55% of them …
Read More »Is This Treatable Condition Causing Your High Blood Pressure?
Photo by pixelheadphoto digitalskillet / Shutterstock.com Anyone diagnosed with high blood pressure knows the standard advice: Lose weight, exercise more, change your diet. But it’s likely that relatively few people have heard another suggestion: Make sure you’re treating your aldosteronism. It turns out that this condition — which results when …
Read More »Set Your Exercise Goals High, but Not Too High
Inactive people started moving more if they received daily step targets that exceeded their usual number by about 500 steps. Want to exercise more this year? Then adopt workout goals that are challenging but not too challenging, tough but doable, individualized but evolving. Or maybe just plan to walk at …
Read More »I Had High Expectations For Wild Digital SEA’s Virtual Event. Safe To Say, They Were Met.
My experience with last year’s Wild Digital SEA event was quite different from this year’s. For one, Wild Digital SEA 2020 went virtual. However, tickets still cost US$ 500-800 for individuals, depending on what kind of access you wanted at the event. This meant that one would have rather high …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: Parties Delay the Start of In-Person Classes at Some U.S. High Schools
Here’s what you need to know: High school parties force some Northeast schools in the U.S. to delay the return to classes. Trump defends his indoor rally, but some aides are concerned. L.A. begins a testing program expected to be among the most comprehensive U.S. school-based initiatives. A federal judge …
Read More »Babies Born at High Altitudes May Be Smaller
Living at high altitudes may be associated with giving birth to smaller babies who grow more slowly through childhood. Researchers studied 964,299 children in 59 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Among them, 106,441 lived above an altitude of 1,500 meters, or …
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