Swice up your life. “Swicy” — a mashup of sweet and spicy — is this summer’s blazing new food trend, with brands scrambling to make their way into the movement, perhaps a surprising one for hot-weather days “The spicy trend is here to stay,” Sally Lyons Wyatt, packaged goods and foodservice industry adviser with market research … Read more
We’re flying to get outta here. Flight attendant takes the top spot as the most wanted job in New York, according to a new survey of job seeking habits. Empire State residents appear to eager to get up from behind a desk — and move about the cabin — with an average of 16,815 of us … Read more
They won’t be getting gold medals for abstinence. Athletes hoping to get frisky during the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris appeared to have their dreams dashed after organizers announced they were ordering the same “anti-sex” beds used at the 2020 Tokyo Games. But the 16,000 modular mattresses made by Japanese company Airweave and sent to … Read more
Ray Kroc cut the ribbon on the first McDonald’s franchise, opened in Des Plaines, Ill., back in 1955 — and the rest is fast food history. But the McDonald’s story begins years before that — and halfway across the continent in Southern California, to boot. And did you know that the Big Mac wasn’t invented until 1967, … Read more
John F. Kennedy Jr. had a lot on his mind. The 33-year-old law school grad had recently quit his job at the district attorney’s office and was trying to start his own magazine. His mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and his best friend, cousin Anthony Radziwill, were diagnosed with cancer in the same month. And he … Read more
It’s un-bee-lievable. Science’s latest and greatest breakthrough is using killer honeybees for a real stinger of a beer recipe. When microbiologists from Cardiff University in Wales went abroad to Namibia for a project on sustainability, they encountered the insects — the Africanised “killer” honey bee, to be exact — and discovered that the insects contained … Read more
Springing forward might set back your health. Daylight saving time might be bad news for your healthy habits, according to new research. The time of the year when we “spring forward” — setting our clocks ahead by one hour — also marks the time of year when people start consuming more processed foods and stop … Read more
Is the “hush workcation” the new vacation trend? Nearly a third of Americans admitted they’ve worked remotely on vacation without telling their bosses. The poll of 2,000 employed Americans — split evenly among travelers and hotel workers — found 52% of them would use their vacation travels as a chance to work remotely and 29% … Read more
Shorely they can’t be serious. Travel & Leisure released its list of the “25 Best Beaches in the USA.” Although two unlikely New York City entries made the cut, the coastal gem of Long Island — constantly in the conversation of the nation’s nicest beaches — was snubbed. Brooklyn’s Coney Island and Rockaway Beach in … Read more
Popular sayings in the English language often have multiple meanings — such as “a heart of gold” and “time is money.” Some expressions are also clever metaphors for deeper meanings. But where did they come from? Who started saying these popular phrases — and why are they so familiar today? Here are a few interesting expressions to explore. … Read more
Go to sleep and smell the coffee. It may seem counterintuitive, but drinking coffee before a nap could be the secret to waking up feeling refreshed, a sleep expert claims. “Caffeine takes roughly 30 minutes to metabolize, and as you wake, you can get the double benefit of nap rejuvenation and caffeine alertness,” snooze guru … Read more
Pizza could be heart-healthier than you think. Everyone loves cheese, but many tend to cut it out of their diets due to high levels of saturated fat and sodium. “Some foods, such as those high in saturated fat and sodium, can increase someone’s risk of cardiovascular disease,” Dr. Cheng-Han Chen, a board-certified interventional cardiologist and … Read more
Clock this. Politicians and professional organizations across America are pushing to axe daylight saving time (DST) — but the practice is more popular than you might think. This weekend, Australians will set their clocks back an hour as their daylight saving season ends ahead of the onset of the southern hemisphere’s winter. That fact has … Read more
Steelers country, let’s ride! Pittsburgh, the western Pennsylvania home to steel, sports and sandwiches with french fries and cole slaw packed within the bread, is supposedly a top travel destination, says one National Geographic writer. The newly released “Here Not There” by Andrew Nelson lauds the Rust Belt city of three rivers as an excellent alternative … Read more
The girlies are into the thick of it — literally. Sure, musclebound men are hot. And gym rat guys oft get the girl. But it’s dudes with a little “dad bod” bulk, à la Taylor Swift’s beefy boo Travis Kelce, who truly win the hearts of women. That’s not pure speculation, it’s science. Women prefer men with … Read more
These nine foods often viewed as a guilty pleasure or otherwise consumed in moderation are healthier than you may think, according to a new report. Treats like chocolate, cheese, or even a cup of coffee contain nutrients needed by the human body, Dr. Stephen Dahmer, Director at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, told Vogue … Read more
Tomato, tomahto. A rowdy Reddit conversation throwing a spotlight on the differences between European countries and the United States has sparked countless mini-debates within a now supersized thread — and Americans can’t stop talking about it online. The transatlantic tit-for-tat began innocently enough about a year ago on r/askreddit, when user Raphael_Olbert posed the extremely simple … Read more
This is a side effect they weren’t expecting. Women are getting pregnant while using Ozempic — with doctors saying there are two key reasons why the weight loss shots fuel fertility. TikTok user @dkaslolive shared a video to the social media site last month saying she was stunned to learn she was expecting a baby … Read more
A British doctor shared a surprisingly warning sign of dementia — the mind-deteriorating condition that afflicts more than 55 million worldwide. The obvious symptoms of dementia include memory loss, but Dr. Ahmad Khundakar told Express in an interview published Saturday that difficulty swallowing could be an early indicator of the disorder. In fact, the unusual … Read more
When he interviewed people for his man-on-the-street segments, Fox News personality Jesse Watters typically only got to talk to them for 10 minutes at most. Now that he’s a primetime host, he has even less time to get into it with interview subjects. That fact inspired his new book “Get It Together: Troubling Tales from … Read more