If dieting is on your New Year’s to-do list, a meal plan designed to lower high blood pressure is getting top marks. The DASH diet was rated best for healthy outcomes by experts at U.S. News. Weight Watchers was the number-one commercial diet plan for weight loss and the easiest to follow. Source Link
Will the tone of best-selling books in 2020 reflect the economic miseries of the Great Recession? A study that scanned the the words in millions of books published in the last century found that tough times were reflected in works written about a decade later. The theory is that difficult childhood experiences affect authors in adulthood. Source Link
We’ve all heard how sitting too long is bad for your health, and now there’s a desk that tries to get a rise out of you. The Stir Kinetic Desk keeps track of your sitting time and nudges up to encourage you to use its motorized stand-up setting. The high-tech hint doesn’t come cheap, as the desk will sell for about $3,900. Source Link
