The new, eighth component — sleep duration — is officially considered an “essential component for ideal heart and brain health.” Other updates include that the cardiovascular checklist applies to anyone 2-years-old and older, includes a new diet guide, accounts for exposure to secondhand smoke and vaping, and updates cholesterol and blood sugar measurements. “The new metric of sleep duration reflects the latest research findings: sleep impacts overall health, and people who have healthier sleep patterns manage health factors such as weight, blood pressure or risk for Type 2 diabetes more effectively,” said American Heart Association President Donald M....

Here’s the deal (spoilers coming at you): Louis Creed, a normal dude, relocates his family from Boston (Chicago in the book) to the fictionalized town of Ludlow, Maine. He and his wife Rachel have decided that too much city living has been bad for the emotional health of their family. Louis befriends a depressing neighbor named Jud. Old Jud tells Louis about a spot just beyond a creepy, and literal, pet cemetery, where you can bring people and pets back to life if you re-bury them a certain way....

This shouldn’t come as a surprise—how could free money during an economic crisis not help people survive? But in a country that’s historically been averse to the government helping people too much, it’s important to recognize that what amounted to a massive experiment in direct payments was a rousing success. This conclusion comes from a University of Michigan analysis of the Household Pulse Survey, a Census Bureau Survey that offers a real-time look at how U....

Which is exactly what I did. My 12-year old son had a five day long baseball tournament in Marietta, Georgia and I brought the Waffle One with me — the only pair in my suitcase for the entire excursion (risky, I know!) — to see if they could stand up to the sort of hardcore-parenting a five day long baseball trip to Georgia entails. I beat the hell out of these shoes....

As Slate pointed out this week, in 1998 and 1999, Pence hosted his own conservative radio program, The Mike Pence Show, during which time he penned an op-ed that he shared on the show’s site. In it, he explained that he was a regular “American Hoosier dad” who took his kids to the then-new film, Mulan. And then he went on to attack Disney and their brave heroine, apparently with little to no awareness of the character’s centuries-old origins....

Over the weekend, the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) tweeted out “;l;;gmlxzssaw” with no context or explanation (other than the obvious context of it being gibberish) leading the internet into a conspiracy-fueled frenzy, wondering what this seemingly random collection of letters might actually mean. While most people used the confusing tweet to make jokes about the account accidentally leaking the nuclear codes, some actually seemed to believe that the incoherent tweet had a deeper, more nefarious meaning....

Mary and her husband took a big gamble 20 years ago when they decided to go all organic and fresh, rooting out antibiotics and GMOs in their birds. But they got lucky, and now they have the most highly recommended chicken according to America’s Test Kitchen, sell their birds (they also raise ducks, Cornish game hens, and chickens) in Whole Foods as well as other organic groceries stories around the country, and two sons who work in the family business with them....

On a recent episode, he tackled PACE, the program available for homeowners to finance environmentally friendly, energy-efficient home improvements. It sounds great on paper, but after watching John’s segment on the program – well, we might be getting scammed. Here’s what you need to know. Before jumping into the scary parts of the program, John delivered a harsh but very real joke. “If you’re under the age of 35, let me quickly clear up your confusion here: A ‘homeowner’ is a person who owns their home,” he said, poking at the reality that home prices are skyrocketing and the idea of owning a home feels nearly impossible....

A new poll conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Two Good Yogurt, shows an astounding number of people are dealing with food insecurity. This crisis has been around for a long time. Still, the pandemic has caused food insecurity to impact more families – and there’s very little support. According to the 2,000 people who took part in the poll, approximately 1,500 said they had experienced food insecurity firsthand. Roughly half of those who took part in the survey said they knew what it was like to not have enough money to buy food....

According to the Harris Poll, conducted on behalf of Curaleaf, which surveyed 2,000 adults aged 21 and up, people, and especially parents, have started to stop drinking booze, and smoke way more weed, amid the pandemic. The poll asked the participants about their consumption habits in general since the beginning of the pandemic. For those who were already weed smokers, 42% of respondents said that they had taken to smoking more during the pandemic, and almost half — 45% — said that they had replaced drinking, or reduced their drinking, with using cannabis....

“If you think parenting is supposed to be endlessly fulfilling and meaningful, you’re probably going to be far less gratified by it that if you accepted that sometimes it’s just boring,” Joshua Coleman, psychologist and author of the book The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework told Fatherly. One third of mothers don’t find parenting meaningful or enjoyable at all, according to at least one study (and those are just the ones who admitted to it)....

PayPal Rank: 36 2017 Rank: 31Full-Time Employees: 18,700Median Salary: N/A Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, PayPal’s team of corporate engineers operate a worldwide open digital payments platform, allowing vendors and individuals to pay and get paid. Earlier this year eBay, which bought PayPal in 2002 and spun it off in 2015, announced that PayPal will cease processing its credit card payments as of 2020, although it will remain an option for shoppers on eBay....

Shortly after take-off, the woman informed the cabin crew on Saudia Airlines Flight SV832 from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia of the issue, demanding they return to King Abdul Aziz International Airport where her daughter was still at the terminal. An audio recording of the exchange between the pilot and the air traffic control was released, going viral on YouTube. In the clip, which Yahoo! Lifestyle translated into English, the pilot is heard saying, “May God be with us....

Inevitably though, first-time parents will have little time to adjust to this change in lifestyle before somebody applies some added pressure: “So … when are you having another one?” I don’t know about other first-time parents, but I loathe this question for a number of reasons. First, we just barely finished cleaning the amniotic fluid off of our first one, and some people seem to be champing at the bit for my wife and I to procreate again....

In a recent exclusive interview with People, Harry spoke about taking his two kids to the games when they’re old enough. His answer was the standard of what you’d expect a dad to say about introducing his kids — Archie, who turns 3 on May 6th, and 10-month-old Lilibet who he shares with wife Meghan Markle — to his passion, the games, when they’re old enough. However, there was a subtle but important message in his response, too....

RELATED: 11 Funny Board Games For Potty Humor, Bad Puns, And Dad Jokes Long and short, Q is a genius monkey who lacks social skills, and it’s up to your kids to help him reach his treehouse by answering 3 types of question/action cards: “Q” cards ask your kid for advice on how to handle specific social situations, i.e. “Q gets bored waiting in line at the store. How should he pass the time?...

For the season finale of Last Week Tonight, Oliver did a deep dive into all the controversy surrounding the 2022 FIFA World Cup. And in his signature style, he got brutally honest about the obvious and subtle reasons why he believes this was doomed and dangerous from the start. “Qatar wasn’t just a surprising choice; it was logically inexplicable,” Oliver argued. “It would be like if the Westminster Dog Show awarded the Best in Show title to a tortoise....

A few days after the COVID-19 shut-down I decided to read Treasure Island to my 10-year old grandson. It would be over Zoom since face-to-face visits weren’t possible and he lives nearly 900 miles away. When I was a child, my mother read Stevenson’s coming-of-age adventure story to me. The book was one of my favorites and I was certain that my grandson would also love it. This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader....

The Pew Research Center reports on a survey conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which shows the significant hit reading for fun has taken with our kids. “The shares of American 9- and 13-year-olds who say they read for fun on an almost daily basis have dropped from nearly a decade ago,” the research center explains. And those numbers “are at the lowest levels since at least the mid-1980s....

RELATED: Why Parents Should Read Novels to Little Kids Your role in all this is pretty obvious, according to Julie Rodriguez, Vice President Of Literary Services for Reading is Fundamental, the country’s largest nonprofit devoted to promoting reading to young kids. “I don’t even remember him not reading to me,” Rodriguez says of her own father, who she credits with getting her hooked early with Mark Twain books. “I know someone whose dad read baseball stats with his child....