What gives? The truth is, there isn’t one tried-and-true method for weight loss, and for some people, cardio just isn’t an effective way to lose weight—but there’s more to it than meets the eye. Let’s take a closer look. The small study closely followed 16 healthy young men to see which types of exercise led to increased levels of acylated ghrelin, or the hormone that increases appetite. Interestingly, they found that when these men ran for 90 minutes or longer, their appetites were actually less voracious than the appetites of those who engaged in shorter, more intense bursts of exercise....

Most prominently, the term emotional labor is often used to describe the emotional demands of a relationship (such as being available for your friends to unload their problems on you) as well as the family management responsibilities women tend to be saddled with in heterosexual relationships (such as being the one who’s in charge of knowing what chores need to get done and assigning them to your partner). In general, emotional labor can be thought of as any tasks that take from a person’s emotional, mental, or energetic tank....

Here are a few signs you can look out for to determine if you’re a victim of gaslighting in your relationship, plus tips to help you navigate it. The origin of the term can be traced to a British play in which an abusive husband manipulates the surroundings and events with the goal of making his wife question her reality. People use gaslighting to “gain an upper hand and avoid accountability,” according to Andrea Papin, RTC, and Jess Jackson, LMT, therapists at Trauma Aware Care....

People who practice relationship anarchy, sometimes abbreviated as RA, are beholden to themselves and only themselves when it comes to choosing who they conduct sexual or romantic relationships with and how they do it. Relationship anarchists look to form relationships with people that are based entirely on needs, wants, and desires rather than on socially mandated labels and expectations. Some central tenets of relationship anarchy are freedom, communication, and nonhierarchy. An RA mindset also seeks to dissolve the strict divides between platonic friendship and sexual or romantic love that exist in wider society....

Millions of people around the world are going to utter the same phrase that we have used for centuries: أحبك Je vous aime. わたしは あなたを愛しています A few years ago, I learned that there is one phrase even more powerful than “I love you.” It forever changed the way I would share love with the people I care about. It all started at Burning Man. My fiancée Miki and I were riding our bikes around the cracked, hard sand surface known as “the playa....

Vitamin D has a hand in keeping your bones healthy, supporting your immune system, and promoting cardiovascular health—and given that nearly every cell in your body has binding sites for vitamin D, that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg,* according to functional nutrition dietitian Whitney Crouch, RDN, CLT. If your health care provider suspects you have a vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, they will order a blood test that looks at your total serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D—or 25(OH)D—which is the form of vitamin D that circulates through your blood....

For example, if you grew up in a home where strong emotions were constantly on display, you may have no trouble experiencing and expressing fear, anger, or joy. But if your family kept quiet about their feelings, you may not notice your own emotions very easily, or you may not feel comfortable letting others know when you feel afraid, angry, or even happy. For instance, if you become intensely angry whenever people don’t act the way you thought they should, you might express it immediately in an aggressive way....