Gillian Manning

1 month ago | moneytalksnews.com | Gillian Manning

The Mediterranean Diet is consistently labeled the best, but it’s not the only way to lose weight. According to a recent study, just adding more spice to your diet with hot peppers could help you drop excess pounds. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University’s Sensory Evaluation Center studied how spice changes the quantity of food people eat. “We know from previous studies that when people slow down, they eat significantly less,” says the study’s lead author, Paige Cunningham.

1 month ago | moneytalksnews.com | Gillian Manning

America’s most popular smartphone brand — Apple — may not be delivering when it comes to smartwatches, according to consumers. For its 2025 telecommunications study, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) surveyed over 27,000 consumers about their telecom services and devices, including smartwatches. The ACSI then used the survey feedback to score brands for customer satisfaction on a scale from zero to 100.

1 month ago | moneytalksnews.com | Gillian Manning

A single blood donation can save up to three lives. And donating blood three times per year could possibly save you, according to researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Their study, recently published in a scientific journal of the American Society of Hematology, suggests that donating blood infrequently leads to genetic changes associated with leukemia, whereas donating regularly does not prompt such changes.

1 month ago | moneytalksnews.com | Gillian Manning

viviana loza / Shutterstock.comPlastic: It’s an insidious ingredient that may not be in your recipe book, but it’s in your food. It doesn’t appear in large, visible shards. It enters your cooking as microplastics. These are small plastic pieces that typically range in size from 5 millimeters (about the size of a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer (a tiny fraction of the width of a single human hair). Microplastics can also degrade into nanoplastics, which are even smaller, at less than 1 nanometer.

1 month ago | moneytalksnews.com | Gillian Manning

An estimated 23% of U.S. adults struggle with some form of mental illness, whether it’s mild, moderate or severe. But even Americans without such a diagnosis are unhappier these days. A recent Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who say they are “very satisfied” with their personal lives plunged from 65% to 44% over the past five years. Habit changes may be part of the solution.