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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. -Or Dessert:
In the war on Fat, science has spent decades on an antidote to one main offender.
-Sugar.
Because it’s not fat that makes you fat, it’s all the stuff that ruins your blood-sugar & insulin.
And one thing all phony-sugars had in-common, is that they were a bit iffy on what exactly their compounds did once inside your body.
Now we can add a possible link to stroke & dementia to their resume, but previous research may explain why…
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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.
Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.
So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”
That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…
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Weight-Loss Is Only 140 Million Miles Away:
So science usually has set ideas about the way things work. And every once in awhile, those assumptions will be proved wrong.
Most of the time it happens out of a very weird discovery or coincidence. -And this time is no different.
This diet-revelation started with the “Oh crap, we have to rescue Matt Damon again,”-level idea of actually sending people to Mars.
And on that mission, one of the strangest things the rocket-scientists had to do was manage Water…
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How Can We Boost Lifespan & Healthspan?:
So for a long time now, people have been searching for every way you can think to escape the ravages of aging.
Whether it’s the mystical regimen of Yazemeenah Rossi, Queen of the Silver Foxes,
The Mediterranean Diet, Centenarian-habits, or something as out-there as a “Superfood”, like the Açaí craze a few years back.
Well believe it or not, !SCIENCE! has found one more non-calorie-restriction source for youth-magic.
And it’s probably been sitting in a mug on your desk, saving your life one day at a time…
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As Stupid As Nascar Cartman:
Every once in awhile, a health news story comes out that is truly inspirational.
Not since Eric Cartman drinking Vagisil in his bid to qualify as a Nascar driver, has something so majestic gone public.
And though in the small “Fail-Army” part of HT there is probably none that will exceed the caution against mixing grenades & sledgehammers.
-Which to be fair, for the rational-minded among you is pretty much the same equation as career blackmail+ impossible sales goals…
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Bashing The Holiday Bloat:
A lot of us both enjoy the end of year festivities and also regret their toll on our bodies after January 1st.
And the struggle is real, because studies say the average person will add between 1-2 lbs to their weight between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
No word on how much of that is going to your waistline, but suffice it to say probably most of it. It may also end up staying there, too.
But there are a few ways of varying wackiness to help you avoid a lot of the problems in the first place…
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How To Optimize Free Creative Output:
Since some super-creative people have taken different psychoactives to help them work better, there has been a long debate about which is more effective.
And in this video, DNews looks into two of them. Marijuana and Alcohol.
It would seem at first that many writers tend to favor Alcohol, with guys like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, & Twain being on that list.
But on the other hand, many other artistic folk seem to favor Marijuana. To name a few of them: Carl Sagan, Alexandre Dumas, and Salvador Dali.
So which is the best “supplement” for creativity-boostage?…
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Accidentally-Awesome Sleep Research That Will Change Your Life:
So, Dr. Sara Mednick had been struggling for a research topic when she found an interesting opportunity.
Her mentor had only studied what you’d call “normal” sleep that you have at night, but not at other times.
And that’s where she found Gold! As she describes in this video, everything on Earth goes through cycles in time, and we’d be smart to remember that.
-Which is where her scientific study comes in, because largely: We Don’t. And there are real downsides to that…
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