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How Many Steps You Really Need to Take Each Day, According to Science
The more you walk, the lower your risk of death from all causes and from cardiovascular disease, according to a new study—although the numbers they identified as being effective are all less than 10,000 steps. The new study is a meta-analysis of several previous studies, and it found that people who get under 2,800 steps…
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What Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Actually Does to Your Body
The FDA does not want you to cook your chicken in NyQuil. Nobody, in fact, wants to cook their chicken in NyQuil — that’s the whole joke. But the FDA issued a warning about “social media challenges involving medicines” because even shitposts can kill you, if you choose to make shitposts that are dumb enough.
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Why Aspirin Is No Longer Widely Recommended to Stave Off Heart Attacks
Doctors used to advise people at risk of heart attack to start taking a “baby” aspirin (effectively a low-dose aspirin) as a preventative. But that practice has gotten less common over time, and now the US Preventive Services Task Force says that — in many cases — it provides more risk than benefit.