Lifestyle

Humans are naturally wired to be awake during the day and to sleep at night. Good daytime sleep is possible, though, if shift work is a necessary part of your work life. To promote better sleep during the day: Avoid stimulants before bedtime. If you're working nights and need to sleep from morning until afternoon, try...

Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as a narghile, shisha or goza, a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber, a bowl, a pipe and a hose. Specially made tobacco is heated, and the smoke passes through water and is then drawn through a rubber hose to a mouthpiece. The...

When you sit, you use less energy than you do when you stand or move. Research has linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns. They include obesity and a cluster of conditions, increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels,...

Belly fat is nothing to joke about. Find out what causes belly fat, the health risks it poses for men and what you can do to lose the extra pounds. If you're carrying a few extra pounds, you're not alone. But this is one case where following the crowd isn't a good idea. Carrying extra...

The Stigma Men Face Part of it may be this macho thing, a lot of guys don’t want to admit they have this problem. They still see depression as a sign of weakness. This type of thinking is outdated, a relic of previous generations that doesn’t speak to the current medical understanding of mental illness. We know...