Does The Color of Your Drink Influence Strength Levels?
Article Round-Up: 1.5.25
Enjoy this week’s curated round-up of videos, articles, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Featured Thoughts:
Are We Better Off Being Worse Off?
Takeaway: The most dangerous place to be is under conditions that are “good enough.”
They aren’t great—we aren’t happy with our circumstances—but things aren’t bad enough to elicit change.
Counterintuitively, it is sometimes better to be worse off, because then we are moved to make real changes in our lives.
Published This Week:
10 Tips To Make The Most of Your 2025
Takeaway: New Years is a natural time for reflection. Regardless of your goals, these ten tips will help you get ahead and craft a year worth celebrating next winter.
Does The Color of Your Drink Influence Strength Levels?
Takeaway: The placebo effect is when you experience the benefits of an intervention because you believe you’ll experience an effect. It is widely researched in the pharmaceutical world, acting as the control group against the effectiveness of medications.
But does this effect apply elsewhere?
In this article, they review a study where lifters received a non-caloric clear drink, while another group received the same drink colored pink. The pink-drink group tested stronger than the clear and control (no drink) groups.
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Just For Fun:
Fact Checking The Hotness of Hot Ones [video]
Takeaway: In case you don’t know, Hot Ones is a youtube series where host Sean Evans interview celebrities as they eat increasingly hot chicken wings.
It’s funny, insightful, and downright addicting.
Except, are the sauces they use as hot as they claim? This video dives into the truth behind Hot Ones hot sauces…
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