It’s 11pm and you’re onto your 12th hour in front of a computer screen – Netflix binge included. This may sound like the typical work and play culture for most these days, but researchers are suggesting that it’s also a ticket to your early funeral.

“Individuals with low physical activity experience the greatest adverse effects.”

According to a new study published in the open access journal, BMC Medicine, the impact of extensive screen time on cardiovascular disease, cancer incidence and mortality may be increased in those who don’t hit the gym when compared to those who do.

More specifically, the findings revealed that people who have lower levels of grip-strength, fitness and physical activity are the most at risk if they spend extensive hours basking under a screen.

The mortality rate of double just for binge watching your favourite show is probably the most unsettling factor for most, but there is a solution. Researchers from Glasgow University believe that by simply increasing your strength and fitness, couch potatoes can offset the life threatening health affects of screen gazing.

“Our study shows that the risks associated with sedentary behaviour are not the same for everyone; individuals with low physical activity experience the greatest adverse effects,” says Dr Carlos Celis, the study’s author.

“This has potential implications for public health guidance as it suggests that specifically targeting people with low fitness and strength for interventions to reduce the time they spend sitting down may be an effective approach.”

Additionally, Dr. Celis believes that measuring grip strength is a very promising way to weed out those who are most at risk of the diseases.

“While fitness testing can be difficult in healthcare and community settings, grip strength is a quick, simple and cheap measure, therefore it would be easy to implement as a screening tool in a variety of settings.”

Even though 391,089 participants from the UK had participated in this study, its researchers are aware that a straight cause and effect conclusion can’t be drawn just yet. Factors such as self-reported screen time and hours spent on physical activity means that the result may be slightly inaccurate, if not indicative of future health concerns for workaholics.

Until then we’d highly recommend you take this as a precaution and work on preventing your muscle mass from deteriorating as you age.

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The best kind of whisky used to be a single malt you drank among friends—or on your own as you savoured the closure of a multi-million dollar deal. Now though, the best kind of whisky is one you can literally live inside, as the latest (planned) addition to Hollywood’s Wilcox avenue proves.Currently a parking lot near Hollywood boulevard, the the space will soon become a seven-story boutique hotel with a street-level restaurant and a rooftop bar.The Hollywood hotel will be called The Whisky—for the whisky-themed minibars that will be placed in each room. Designed by Roschen Van Cleve Architects and Christoph Kapeller of CK Architecture, The Whisky will have 134 guest rooms and an underground garage for 120 cars.As reported by Curbed LA, “The project, from hotelier and restaurateur Adolofo Suaya, is expected to break ground later this year, with completion anticipated by the end of 2021.”

“This project is one of several hotels in the works for Hollywood. About a block to the south, at Wilcox and Selma, a 114-room hotel is planned adjacent to the recently opened Dream Hotel, by the same developer. A little further south, at Wilcox near Sunset, a 12-story Thompson hotel is planned.”

So, if you’re keen to wet your whistle in a whisky themed locale, and fancy living the high life in Hollywood for a few days: add this one to your bucket list.RELATED: What Your Choice In Whisky Really Says About You

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It’s the end of a week in which you’ve barely had time to get half your work done—let alone cook a decent meal. You top it off with an alcohol infused weekend. It’s a mistake, sure, but we all need a blow out sometimes.But as Monday morning rolls around, what do you reach for? Berocca and a cheeky vitamin tablet, of course. After all: it’s common knowledge this will counterbalance the nutritional abuse you have recently inflicted upon your body, right? Wrong. Unfortunately for desk jockeys and disco puppies alike, scientists just made a surprising discovery: most vitamins and mineral supplements do absolutely nothing for your health.Conducted by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto, the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, involved a systematic review of existing data and single randomised control trials from January 2012 to October 2017. As reported by Science Daily, they found, “Multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium and vitamin C—the most common supplements—showed no advantage or added risk in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke or premature death.”

“The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm.”

“We were surprised to find so few positive effects of the most common supplements that people consume,” the study’s lead author, Dr David Jenkins, said. “Our review found that if you want to use multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium or vitamin C, it does no harm—but there is no apparent advantage either.”The only good news for those who like to hack their way to optimal nutrition, is the study found folic acid and B-vitamins with folic acid may reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke. However the main point Dr Jenkins wished to emphasise was this:

“These findings suggest that people should be conscious of the supplements they’re taking and ensure they’re applicable to the specific vitamin or mineral deficiencies they have been advised of by their healthcare provider.”

So put that in your mouth and swallow it. Or just, y’know, eat better. As Dr Jenkins points out, the best way to get your fill of vitamins and minerals is a healthy diet; “So far, no research on supplements has shown us anything better than (eating) healthy servings of less processed plant foods including vegetables, fruits and nuts.”RELATED: Bodybuilder Mark Robinson Reveals The Protein Powders You Should Never Touch 

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From the French Open to Monaco for the Formula 1 Grand Prix it’s been a big week in the world of menswear. Lewis Hamilton’s pink Mercedes hat has become a must have accessory and Ryan Reynolds continues be one of the world’s best dressed actors on his Deadpool press tour in Japan.Bafetimbi Gomis was spotted wearing an amazing green linen suit which fits perfectly. Australian Jason Donovan stepped out for Kylie Monogue’s 50th birthday party in London looking fresh as hell in all white. The guy can dress.Lastly props go to Dougie Pointer for a sublime black tie effort. Bravo chap.Enjoy this week’s eighteen gentleman.

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Remember that scene from Meet The Fockers when Ben Stiller accidentally teaches his father in law’s kid to swear?

Well, according to Reddit, Hollywood has nothing on the every-day lives of the average punter. And as of yesterday, this work of absurd literary genius was a dusty thread dangling in a forgotten ether.

Today we decided to put it to good use, (hopefully) bringing you that unlikely once-a-week-thing-on-the-internet that actually makes you smile. With this in mind, here’s the best ‘worst first impression’ story about meeting your partner’s parents ever.

The antihero, a user called u/NotKnowPotato, explains how he, “Made a very bad mistake,” enraging the parents of his girlfriend, “By pretending not to know what a potato is.”

Allow him to set the scene. “My girlfriend said I am ‘invited to dinner’ with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done.”

“I met them nicely, I should tell you, and it started off in a good way. The idea slapped my mind that I should do a comic bit, to make a good impression and become known to them as a person who is amusing.”

Fair enough, you might think. A bit of humour can only help a tense situation, right? Wrong.

“When I saw that baked potatoes were served I got the idea that it would be very good if I pretended I did not know what potatoes was. That would be funny.”

“Well let me tell you: backfired on my face.”

“So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked; ‘This looks very interesting. What is this?’

They stared at me and the mother said, ‘It’s a baked potato.’ And I was saying, ‘Oh, interesting, a baked….what is it again?’

And she was like ‘A potato.’

And I was like, ‘A ‘po-tayy-toe’, oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good.”

It was around this point he realised; “They didn’t see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato.”

“So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn’t know what a potato is.”

And so he went all in.

“They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.”

It was this doubling down that was his undoing.

“This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my ‘f*cked up antics,’ and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.”

“Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point.”

“When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like, ‘Enough is enough. You’re screwing with us. Admit it.’ And I said ‘Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don’t know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don’t know what to tell you.’

Well let me tell you he got very annoyed. I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said, ‘Taste’s very strange!’

That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying ‘What are you doing?’ and my girlfriend went to some other room.”

As you might expect, the situation did not improve.

“Finally the father said I should ‘Get the f*ck out of this house’ and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before.”

“Well let me tell you he didn’t take that kindly.”

Unfortunately for our antihero, since that day he has been, in text messages, “Telling my girlfriend I really don’t know what a potato is,” and now:

“The only way I can ever get out of this is for them to buy that I don’t know what a potato is.”

And his advice for anyone thinking of using a similar wise-crack?

“I wish I never started it but I can’t go back. I think she will break up with me anyway.”

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There are many ways to crash a Porsche, none of them good. However this valet driver has found perhaps the most ignoble.

As reported by the SMH, “In a bizarre crash, a car drove under another parked vehicle outside the Hyatt Regency Sydney hotel in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday,” leaving its (valet) driver trapped with an orange Subaru, “Balanced on top of the Porsche Carrera he was driving.

The valet was trying to park the Porsche when the crash happened, and fortunately wasn’t injured.

“Luckily the car underneath had a soft top, so [emergency services] were able to cut open that soft canopy and got our diver out of there.” Mathew Talbot, the Hyatt’s director of sales and marketing, told the SMH.

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The man of the moment can do no wrong in the fashion game. Or can he…

Donald Glover was spotted last week rocking a wardrobe piece that no man should ever attempt – the iconic short shorts. Once reserved for rugby players of the 80s, dirty disco dance floors and roided-up festival goers, the controversial has seemingly re-emerged as an acceptable menswear item today.

Surprisingly enough, Glover managed to pull it off without a hitch by keeping things uber subtle with a deft understated look. The rapper and Star Wars actor kept things casual in Tribeca with a black Gucci tee and white sneakers to go with the shorts. Topped off with a dad cap, it simply screams effortless cool without trying hard.

Whilst some may still be skeptical of short shorts on men, Glover isn’t new to rocking them in public. Last year he went all out in Gucci with fitted shorts that were slightly lengthier but still showed enough leg.

The moral of the story? Fear not the exposed man thighs. Keep it clean and simple and you can rock shorts too.

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“Bond. Jane Bond.”

Sounds a bit naff doesn’t it? That tends to happen when you play the game of counterfeit instead of create in Hollywood. And today we need to address this dimwitted idea as it concerns one of the world’s most beloved film spies.

“Why should a woman get sort of sloppy seconds?” – Rosamund Pike

Over the years there’s been growing noise for a female 007 to finally be thrust upon this world. Such was the significance of the online movement that it even attracted the interest of talents like Gillian Anderson, Priyanka Chopra and Emilia Clarke alongside support from Idris Elba.

With all due respect, these entertainers need to shut up and learn the source material before blindly joining the feminist lynch mob.

Badass female leads taking on big budget action flicks is cool, but you don’t just bastardise a tradition and a character’s core values dating back more than half a century to make a quick buck. But what about the era of female empowerment? Well if your idea of female empowerment is following in the footsteps of a gun-totting womaniser with a bad habit for drinking and gambling, then this conversation is over. It’s not empowering, it’s just lazy writing from producers who want to cash in on what’s trending with the help of an existing formula that’s been proven in the box office.

“Why not create your own story rather than jumping onto the shoulders and being compared to all those other male predecessors?” – Rachel Weisz

In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Academy Award-winning Rachel Weisz, and actual wife to Daniel Craig, set the record straight.

“[Ian Fleming] devoted an awful lot of time to writing this particular character, who is particularly male and relates in a particular way to women.”

“Why not create your own story rather than jumping onto the shoulders and being compared to all those other male predecessors? Women are really fascinating and interesting, and should get their own stories.”

Weisz isn’t the only Hollywood female voice to come out in opposition of the idea. Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike recently explained in an interview with Uproxx that the notion of a female 007 was a cheap move in the fight to put females in leading roles.

“James Bond is a character that Ian Fleming created. Of course the brand has become bigger and whatever, but take one of the Bond Girls and give her her own story. I think the character of James Bond is a man.”

“To have such a character in a completely independent series, why should a woman get sort of sloppy seconds?”

“Why should she have once been a man and now it has to be played by a woman? Why not make a kick-ass female agent in her own right?”

Pike adds that swapping the gender of 007 would in actual fact “underestimate a woman entirely”.

And herein lies the problem. When Hollywood decides to create copy a film that supposedly champions a new era in equality, they actually end up creating a big steaming pile of turd. The proof is in the films rolling out in the past two years featuring an all-female cast that was once led by male actors.

Exhibit A, the trailer for the latest Ghostbusters reboot.

Exhibit B, the trailer for Ocean’s 8, the reboot of 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven which looks more like Sex & the City 3.

Gender-biased or not, novel industry names in reboots simply don’t cut it anymore and if you need a recent evidence of that, just look at 2017’s Baywatch which starred The Rock, Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario. All bankable names for their own right and yet, the film only holds an 18% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a mediocre box office return.

If producers of James Bond want to bring a strong female character into the fold then it needs to be done on its own standing. Sigourney Weaver in ALIENS pioneered it and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill literally killed it, as did Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick-Ass and Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde.

The future of 007 and screen equality still holds some hope though – just in more subtle ways that are sure to pay real dividends.

Last year James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Eon Productions had struck a deal with IM Global and Paramount to adapt Mark Burnell’s spy novel, The Rhythm Section. Blake Lively will star in the lead of this espionage action-thriller, a film which Broccoli has been trying green light with studios for the past seven years.

It sounds promising already and if it’s anything like the supreme effort that Charlize Theron put in her own spy thriller (see above), you can expect there to be less cringe and much more respect.

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Rods. Check. Bait. Check. Water. Check. Tartan newsboy cap. Uh, check. Fitted herringbone trousers, matching olive linen shirt, matching fleece vest and tan dress shoes. Wait, what?In case you haven’t noticed this isn’t your average fishing trip out with the boys. This is the family fishing trip – David Beckham style. The father of four posted a few Instagram photos overnight showing off his amicable fathering skills which oddly wouldn’t look out of place as a fashion spread for Burberry.

Lovely day fishing with the boys today @brooklynbeckham @romeobeckham

A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on May 28, 2018 at 3:40pm PDT

In the photo album above Beckham is joined by his two sons Brooklyn and Romeo who also took a page out of dad’s fashion bible by rocking olive and sand coloured trousers, a checked and white shirt and matching newsboy caps. And let’s not forget the mandatory knee high fishing boots which complete this insanely dapper look.If that’s not enough to convince you of how quintessentially English this outdoors look is, then take note of the prop Beckham is using in one of the photos – an English cocker spaniel. Surely that’s a master stroke from the style master himself.Did the boys actually catch any fish that day? Who knows. They probably caught their next modelling gig though which should pay for some nice fish.RELATED: How To Get David Beckham’s Style

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