Lechatnoir/Getty Images It occupies our BookTok feeds and the end caps at Target. It’s all our bookworm friends want to talk about. It’s even changing baby naming trends. The romantasy genre (that’s romance and fantasy combined, if you’re new to the term) has taken the publishing industry by absolute storm in recent years, and readers can’t seem to get enough. Editors at Goodreads recently shared the most popular romantasy books on their platform — essentially, which titles have the most reviews and have been marked as “read” by users the most often. So if you’re an avid fan of the...
People Are Sharing The Most Unhinged Things Their Doctors Have Said To Them
Eva-Katalin/E+/Getty Images Let’s preface this article by saying that doctors, as a group, can be great. They have important knowledge, expertise, and understanding that most of us simply don’t. They play an important role in our lives and in society. But it’s also true that once you hit a certain age, most people can probably recall a negative, hurtful, or simply bemusing interaction with a medical professional. Maybe it’s because they see the world through a different lens than most of us or maybe it’s because they lose (or never had) good bedside manner. Recently, TikTok user @erinanddaniel’s husband encountered…...
“Contemplating Making My Kids Take A Year Off From Sports” & More Back-To-School Confessions
MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images It’s hard to believe we’ve already moved on from our summer confessions — whether you were dreading it or loving it — and are now fully immersed in our back-to-school thoughts, secrets, and woes, isn’t it? Feels like just yesterday we were all commiserating with each other about how summer is the worst, or how summer is our favorite, or how a lack of routine really might be the end of all of us as we serve popsicles for breakfast again. And now it’s time to dive deep into the back-to-school confessions of moms just like you....
Inconsistent Sleep Schedule Tied To Nearly 200 Diseases, Confirming Your Suspicions
sestovic/E+/Getty Images For all of our adult lives, we’ve read study after study telling us over and over again “No. Really. You need to get a good night’s sleep. It’s really important for your health.” And the new study we’re going to talk about today is no exception. but it does offer a few interesting twists. Researchers from Peking University and Army Medical University drew from data from nearly 88,500 adults from the UK Biobank (UKB) to discover that poor sleep habits — though not necessarily the ones you expect — were tied to significantly higher risks of dozens of...