Rescue from certain death, finding your true love?it’s all part of a day’s walk in Tumbleweeds by Shane Corkery.
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Experiments with the DNA of fruit flies and sheep show that male homosexuality is genetic. Now Martin Hutchinson writes in BBC News that lesbianism may be due to hormones.
Lesbians are more than twice as likely to suffer from a hormone-related condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome. Symptoms include excess hair, acne, and obesity, as well as a greater risk of diabetes and fertility problems. One in ten women has the condition, which produces excess male sex hormones in the bloodstream. While not all women with the condition are lesbians, many more lesbians have the condition.
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A company is developing “safe” cigarettes that reduce the risk of emphysema, using research done by the big tobacco companies. Why didn’t these companies use their own research to make cigarettes safer? They were afraid it would be seen as a confession that their other cigarettes were harmful, at a time when they were being sued by smokers.
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We’ve written before about researchers who think that margarine may cause childhood asthma. Now they say that children who regularly drink whole milk are less likely to develop this condition. People are having success losing weight and lowering their cholesterol on high fat, high protein diets like Atkins and the Protein Power diet. The American Medical Association has been pushing margarine and low fat diets for years?have they been wrong all this time?
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