While the effects of a hangover wear off after a day, the impact on your body lasts and regular drinking takes years off your life. Photo / 123RF
While the effects of a hangover wear off after a day, the impact on your body lasts and regular drinking takes years off your life. Photo / 123RF
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Happy New Year. For those feeling a little rough this morning we take a look atwhat a hangover really does to your body. Plus, why rich people keep working, the benefits of cutting calories, the man who was set to be the first black astronaut and making travel plans around restaurant reservations.
The painful truth about what a hangover really does to your body
The pounding head. The parched mouth. And, worst of all, the crushing sense of anxiety as you cast your (foggy) mind back to the night before and try to remember if you said or did anything awful.
Most of us have woken up with a hangover at some point and struggled through the day wondering how on earth a few drinks can leave us feeling so wretched.
What exactly is going on in our weary bodies and throbbing heads the morning after? Photo / 123RF
Why don't rich people just stop working?
Here we are, chugging into the 10th year of an extremely top-heavy economic boom in which the 1 percenters, by all statistical measures, have won, creating the greatest wealth disparity since the Jazz Age.
And yet the only thing we know in this casino-like economy is that for those at the top, too much is never enough.
For those at the top, too much is never enough. Photo / 123RF
Cutting 300 calories a day shows health benefits
Calorie restriction led to weight loss, lower cholesterol and less inflammation. Whether it extends life span and wards off disease long-term remains unproven.
In a two year study, those who cut a few hundred calories a day from their diets showed striking improvements in heart measures. Photo / 123RF
Ed Dwight was set to be the first black astronaut. Here's why it never happened
Two stories that America tells itself about the 1960s are the civil rights movement and the space race. They are mostly rendered as separate narratives, but in the figure of Ed Dwight, they came together.
Central, in Lima, Peru, is currently No. 6 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, making it a prime stop for food-obsessed travellers. Phtoo / Maik Dobiey, The New York Times
