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Sarah Jio, Glamour magazine

Do you have a good sense of smell? Guess what it can tell you about your health and happiness...

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Do you have a crackerjack sense of smell? Can you sniff out the best (and worst) scents a mile away? I can! And, let me tell you, it's not always a great sense to have. But ... there is a benefit, say researchers. Also...(Why your bad dreams may have something to do with how your room ... smells!)

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Sarah Jio, Glamour magazine

If you took a vitamin pill this morning, you may be feeling like you did something great for your health--but wait, did you? Past research has linked vitamins with increased death risk (yikes, I know). But guess which pill could actually increase your lifespan? Because, um, that's actually the point, isn't it?

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Happy spring! If your wintertime diet was a little blah, consider these three, easy steps to cleaning things up...

1. Switch from soda to lemon water: One of the easiest ways to clean up your diet is ditch the soda, gals. Diet-soda or regular, there are plenty of health warnings about the stuff. A favorite drink among detox enthusiasts is lemon water--warm or cold. Just squeeze the juice of a half of a fresh lemon into water and sip. I swear by this beverage when I've had a few glutinous days.

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2. Kale: A dietician I spoke to recently described antioxidant-rich kale as nature's scouring pad for its ability to scrub your cells (or some variation of that--I didn't get a direct quote). My favorite type of kale is dinosaur kale, which is darker and denser than some of the other varieties. Loaded with that dark green pigment, kale is chock-full of antioxidants that fight disease and cell damage.

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Anna Breslaw, Glamour magazine

First yogasms, now this? Maybe it's time to finally go on that retreat with your crunchy friend from college.

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Psychology Today reports: After studying with Dr. Deepak Chopra, a writer, sex educator and meditation student named Pamela Madsen made a connection between the trance state she experienced during meditation and the mental shutdown during particularly good sex. Sure enough, when Madsen consulted studies, it was confirmed that both meditation and orgasm induce the diminution of self-awareness and alter bodily perception.

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In layman's terms: while meditation utilizes the left side of the brain and sex the right, the basis for both of them is the same (go slow, get comfy, connect to the breath). And, when successful, they both culminate with something Chopra calls "going into the gap," a place without words. In other words, the place

By Lexi Petronis, Glamour magazine

OK, here's a super-personal question for you: have you ever had an orgasm... while working out? Stories have circulated (even here on Vitamin G!) for years about the "coregasm"--an exercise-induced orgasm that's often correlated with core-strengthening workouts (thus the name). And now, there's research to back it up.

A new anecdote-based study by researchers at Indiana University has confirmed that some women can (and do!) experience sexual pleasure through exercise alone--no fantasies, no sex. Just exercise.

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According to Debby Herbenick, a researcher for the study: "The most common exercises associated with exercise-induced orgasm were abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking/spinning and weight lifting. ... These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes

By Lexi Petronis, Glamour magazine

Whiling away an afternoon at an art gallery or an evening at the symphony may be lovely ways to spend some time (and get a little culture in your life), but one study is showing that enjoying those activities could actually help boost your health in a truly fascinating way.

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A new study presented at the 12th Annual Spring Meeting on Cardiovascular Nursing has found that stroke patients who love music, theater, and art recover better than stroke patients who don't.

Stroke patients who love the arts were also happier--they were more energetic, less anxious, and even reported better memory and communication skills than non-arts-loving patients.

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"These results shed light on the importance of lifelong exposure to art for improving the recovery process after a stroke," says According to study researcher Dr. Ercole Vellone,

Gourmet, Romulo YanesBy Sarah Jio, Glamour magazine

Feeling sluggish? If you're dragging your feet about heading to the gym, or just know that once you get there you'll throw in the towel early, this is the tip for you. It's fascinating!

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Here's a shocking tip you've probably never tried: If you have trouble staying on the treadmill or elliptical or fill-in-the-blank-with-your-fave-exercise, you have to try what Stanford University researchers say work to get people to exercise longer.

In their study of obese women, they found that those who touched a cold object to their palms when they were about to give up, were able to then workout longer than those who did not cool their hands.

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"If you reduce the heat stress, you reduce fatigue, sweating and discomfort," one of the researchers stated. "You reduce a lot of the physiological barriers that [make]

By Lexi Petronis, Glamour magazine

We can thank our DNA for lots of things: your lovely smile, the way you walk, the color of your hair. And now, according to new research, we can also thank it for being so willing to actually change with a few minutes of exercise. Thanks, DNA!

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According to a new study in Cell Metabolism, even 20 minutes of exercise can change DNA in your muscles, helping the muscles work better for more exercise, and also turning on certain genes that are active in the metabolism of sugar and fat and glucose regulation--which could help keep diabetes at bay.

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The study involved participants who were fairly sedentary, and researchers noted that, the more that exercise increased, the more the DNA changed.

According to Juleen Zierath, author of the study: "Exercise is medicine, and it seems the means to alter our epigenomes