In the last days of 2020, Oculus quietly rolled out a fitness tracker, called Oculus Move, that lives inside its Quest headsets. Users who download the software can watch the calories they burn in virtual reality, along with their physically active minutes, climb on a ticker floating above or below their field of view. With […]
On a typical day at the office, Troy Scott Parker found himself searching for a better trail. Working just outside of Sykesville, MD, a 25-minute drive from Baltimore, Parker’s go-to trail was flat, straight, rutted and in the open. In the summer it was sweltering and in the winter frigid. “It was miserable,” says Parker. […]
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The reason eating citrus fruit appears to protect against cancer may be because of DNA repair enzyme boosting powers of a compound concentrated in the peel. source
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A hormone (thyroxine) produced by the gland located beneath the larynx (thyroid gland) serves as a regulator to ( among other things) body temperature, metabolism and heart rate. Things can get bad when the thyroid works too little or too much. Reasons for poor thyroid gland function may be genetics, pregnancy, stress, lack of nutrients, […]
