A scientific study into the components making up store receipts found that 40% contain the dangerous chemical bisphenol A (BPA), and they are theorizing that there may be a serious health risk involved in their handling. BPA has long since been protested, with the last two years showing an increase in watchdog groups working to ban [...]
The more time you spend sitting, the more likely you are to die at an earlier age, according to a number of recent studies. This even applies to individuals who are not obese, and work out after a long day of sitting at the office. The most recent study tracked more than 100,000 adults over [...]
After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It’s more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart. College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex — they [...]
He may have come down from the trees, but prehistoric man did not stop swinging. New research into Stone Age humans has argued that, far from having intercourse simply to reproduce, they had sex for fun. Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies [...]
How to lose weight and not go hungry: Researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of ‘fullness’ Millions of people the world over suffer today from obesity, yet there is no “magic bullet†that has yet provided a universally accepted solution. However, a young researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem feels he has come up [...]
People eat more when they are glued to the television, and the more entertaining the programme, the more they eat, according to research presented on Saturday. It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing, said Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in [...]
*A piece of a fruit that is believed to be a family of melon excavated from the Shimonosato Ruin in Moriyama in Shiga prefecture, or state, central Japan, Thursday, May 31. Based on a radiocarbon analysis, researchers estimate the half-rounded piece of fruit to be about 2,100 years old, said Shuji Yamazaki, a local official [...]
IT has long been said that women value personality in a man over penis size – and research published today suggests this is true. But blokes can still go nuts over the issue of quantity versus quality, it seems. While men agonise over the length and girth of their member, women are more interested in [...]
