Health

I really liked the book Freakonomics, so I follow the authors’ blog, Freakonomics.  I also find genetics fascinating, so this post caught my eye: Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men?.  Taking it all with a grain of salt it makes for some fun reading. Selection pressure means when parents have traits they can […]

People with better memories are not necessarily better at remembering things.  This study shows they are better at ignoring the unimportant things.  They filter better so they only have to try to remember the important things. That makes me feel better.  All those things I can’t remember?  They weren’t important. Boing Boing: Better visual working

You are more likely to get a cold when you’re cold, especially if your nose is cold. BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Mothers ‘were right’ over colds.

I just read a very interesting article by Seth Roberts, "What Makes Food Fattening.  (The Freakonmics blog pointed me to it.)  Nobody knows what makes food fattening but Roberts had a lot of interesting theories.  The article was well worth reading but if you don’t have the time to read all 77 pages, here’s my

Surveys show that dieters that keep a food journal lose more weight and keep it off.  Now a new service allows you to take pictures of your food and somebody else figures out how to journal it: MyFoodPhone.  At a $100/month, it’s not cheap.  You do get personal advise from a dietitian though.

Gay men react to sexual orders more like women do than straight men do.  Whether their response is a cause or an effect of being gay is still unknown. Gay and Straight Men React Differently to Sexual Odors – New York Times.

Rich people are fat now too. Obesity surges among affluent – Yahoo! News.

Several of my friends are either pregnant or have just had a baby, so the topic of episiotomies has come up a few times.  Episiotomies are not a good thing for women – they might make it easier for the doctor and they might be better for the baby in a few cases, but they

In case you missed the previous gazillion studies, here’s yet another one, Fast Food Linked to Obesity, Diabetes. The real question is what are we going to do about it?

Once again, researchers are saying that if you don’t get enough sleep, you are more likely to be obese.  In this study, people who got 6 hours of sleep a night were 23% more likely to be obese than those who got the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep a night.  For those that only get