Thriving Words

THIS WILL GIVE YOU HOPE IN LIFE. LEICESTER : A team of rejects. Most of this Leicester City team is bound together by failure and rejection in recent years. The two DANNY'S , SIMPSON and DRINKWATER, were let go by Manchester United as youngsters. CHRISTIAN FUCHS and MARC ALBRIGHTON arrived as free agents, having been released by Schalke 04 and Aston Villa respectively. HUTH was a promising young player for Jurgen Klinsmann's Germany and Jose Mourinho's Chelsea many years ago before falling off the train to stardom and ending up in the lower leagues. Goalkeeper KASPER SCHMEICHEL was told he had no future at Manchester City and dropped all the way down to fourth-tier Notts County to get a game. Captain Wes Morgan didn't play in England's top flight until he was 30. Jamie Vardy, the club's top goalscorer, was playing semi-professionally until four years ago. A few years before that, he was playing amateur ball while wearing an ankle monitor, a condi...

You're human, so chances are, you're interested in getting more sleep, having better sex and improving your mood. A secret to all these things -- at least according to one new study -- is calorie restriction. Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recruited more than 200 healthy women and men between the ages of 20 and 50. Each had a body mass index between 22.0 and 28.0, making them either normal weight or overweight, but not obese. The scientists behind this research, led by Corby Martin of Pennington's Ingestive Behavior Laboratory, separated the participants into two groups for the two-year study: one that would be bound to a diet that restricted calories by 25%, and a control group whose members could continue to eat whatever they wanted. The cure for your junk food cravings? Sleep After two years, adults on the calorie-restricted diet reported better moods, less stress, increased sex drive and better s...