If you had a choice, would you exercise really hard for one minute or moderately for 45 minutes? Pressed for time, you probably picked the first option. According to a recent study, the two options — high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and endurance/aerobic training — yield some of the same health and fitness benefits.How is that possible? Is […]

Tries Muslim dating apps,finally just decides to datemen who interest her “Down for halal sex.” I snorted and sank further underneath my cherry-red duvet. The midafternoon sunlight pushing through the blinds cast a glare on my phone, making it hard to view the man whose dating profile I’d stumbled on. This was a profile on […]

Those of you who tuned in to NBC’s “The Voice” on Sunday night may have noticed something a little unusual: a celebrity, on network television, sans makeup. Alicia Keys, one of Season 11’s judges/coaches, no longer wears makeup, a decision she described publicly in May: “I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, […]

Readerzzz share their experiences sleepwalking and sleep-talking and sleep-shopping and sleep-arguing and sleep-eating . . .  In the summer of 1981, a Scottsdale, Arizona, man named Steven Steinberg grabbed a knife from his kitchen and proceeded to stab his wife 26 times, killing her. Steinberg was promptly charged with murder, but when it came time […]

By any other name — flatbread! Perhaps no one food conjures more varied images than flatbread. “Almost every culture makes some sort of flatbread,” said Paul Drowns, community cooking educator at the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center on Bates Street in Lewiston. Here in the Northeast, flatbreads have been synonymous with breakfast — and sweetness. In […]

My sister-in-law sent me a Mother’s Day gift this year, the first I’ve ever received. I felt like an imposter when I opened it. I hadn’t forgotten the Toddler, the Infant and the Newborn living with me, three sisters all under the age of 3, but my status as a foster parent is ambiguous by […]

Editor’s note: When two Post Food section staffers each offered what they consider to be superior tomato cocktails that beat your standard bloody mary, we knew we couldn’t choose between them. For readers, it’s a win-win. For the past three summers, one of us (Kara) has been creating bloody mary mixes with fresh tomatoes, an […]

As if breakups weren’t hard enough! Social media makes them even more complicated. What 20-something hasn’t been kept up late at night by the thought of accidentally viewing an ex’s Snapchat story? Based on my own mistakes, here are 23 steps to gracefully extricate yourself from a relationship that’s no longer IRL.1. Unfollow your ex […]

Denmark has some of the world’s happiest people, according to the United Nations World Happiness Report of 2016.Not everything is rosy in the Scandinavian role-model country, however, as its recent backlash against immigrants and refugees has shown. But the Danes are certainly proud of their education and their parenting.A new book by Iben Dissing Sandahl […]

Sometimes the best dog treats aren’t edible. Every night when I walk my 6-year-old Boxer, he knows exactly what to expect once he’s unleashed. His tail wags furiously, his body wiggles, and glistening drops of saliva drip to my kitchen floor. Then it comes: a high-pitched “good boy” or a pricey, meaty treat. Typically, Beau […]