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Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier
Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
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Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
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Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly."
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Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering.
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Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales.
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Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level.
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