Scientists in Italy have determined that WOMEN WHO STOP SMOKING CAN LOOK YOUNGER.
How much younger? Try 13 years younger… and all in just nine months.
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A new study published in the Public Library of Science by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School entitled GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSING OF BABIES ARE DETERMINED BY THEIR FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS concludes what all new mothers are afraid to hear: that AN UGLY BABY IS HARDER TO LOVE.
The study set out to clarify an Israeli study that showed 70% of abused or abandoned children had some sort of visible flaw – but no other health or learning issues by determining “why”.
It’s true, it’s true!
Men really are from Mars and women are from Venus… when it comes to our brains, that is.
Scientists have discovered 10 THINGS ABOUT OUR BRAINS THAT ARE DIFFERENT BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
They are:
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Want Good Grades? Try Breastfeeding…
Were you one of those kids who got good grades in school, or were you always picked last for the class spelling bee team?
Web Watch has found a new study from the Journal of Human Capital that did a comparison of students’ grades based on whether the student was breastfed or not.
The two professors, Joseph Sabia from the American University and University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees, studied information from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to DETERMINE THE EFFECTS THAT BREASTFEEDING AN INFANT HAS ON THEIR LATER SCHOOL CAREER.
In February 2009, author Mary Roach gave a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk entitled 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ORGASMS.
You can watch her talk here (and Web Watch highly recommends watching it, if only for the amusing video clip used to demonstrate item #7), but for convenience sake, Web Watch has included Mary’s ten items after the break.
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Mastering One’s Domain, so to speak
The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy published a study by Aniruddha Das entitled “MASTURBATION IN THE US” that says that people aren’t enjoying themselves as much as others might think they are. What’s the old joke – “Those who say they aren’t doing it are lying?”
Sociologists from the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology and Population Research Center asked 3,116 Americans how often they pleasured themselves over the previous 12 months. Here is a little bit of what they found:
The book SLEEP TO BE SEXY, SMART, and SLIM has all sorts of tips on things you need to do to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.
One of the tips that they suggest is to watch what you eat in the hours before you go to sleep, eating only foods that digest quicker.
A study entitled High Glycemic Index Carbohydrate Meals May Shorten Sleep Onset published in the American Journal of Clincal Nutrition agrees with this philosphy, stating that eating a meal with a high glycemic index four hours before you go to sleep can cut your “falling to sleep” time in half by increasing the amount of tryptophan and seratonin your body produces.
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Science says: It’s Good to Marry Your Cousin
Everyone should be marrying their cousin. So says science-oriented magazine Scientific American in an article entitled WHEN INCEST IS BEST: KISSING COUSINS HAVE MORE KIN.
Scientists studied marriage and birth records for 150,000 Icelandic couples – from 1800 through 1965 – to see if there was any connection between the relationship of the couple getting married versus the number of children the couple had.
What the scientists found was that marrying your third cousin offered the best chance of having a baby.
Women born between 1800-1824 who mated with their third cousin had more children (4.04) and grandchildren (9.17) than women who had children with someone who was related no closer than an eight cousin (with 3.34 children and 7.31 grandchildren). Similar birth differences held up as much as 100 years later, even when families were having fewer children.
The reasoning has to do with genetics, where close relatives can share genes that would reduce the chance of a miscarriage. The study showed that a person’s third and fourth cousins would share enough common genes to counterbalance any inbreeding disadvantages.