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In baseball dugouts, we see players swigging special sports drinks that are designed to replace the salt lost in sweat, but if they listened to the results of a new study, they would be drinking chocolate milk instead!

Eddie Pells reports in LiveScience.com that a small group of fit athletes worked out on a stationery bicycle, then drink low-fat chocolate milk, a fluid-replacement drink like Gatorade and a carbohydrate replacement drink like Endurox R4. A few hours later, they rode their bikes again, this time until they were exhausted.
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Two years ago we reported that biologists think that 8% of sheep are gay. A new museum exhibition in Oslo, Norway, documents the fact that 50 species of animals exhibit signs of homosexuality.

In LiveScience.com, Sara Goudarzi quotes museum coordinator Petter Bockman as saying, “Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species, and the phenomenon has been well described for 500 of them.” Almost one-fourth of black swan families have homosexual parents, who raise the chicks from eggs donated by heterosexual pairs.
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As the weather turns cold, many of us dream of going to an tropical island, where we can bask in the sun. But women should be especially careful when planning such a trip, because exposure to the sun ages them FASTER than it does men.

A new laser-based technique images the deeper layers of the skin in order to view the collagen and elastin, whose degeneration causes the appearance of wrinkles and the progressive loss of skin smoothness.
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Personal choices, such as smoking and consumption of fatty foods, have long been linked to increased cancer risk. According to researchers in Seattle, exercising six days a week reduces the risk of colon cancer in men. Another study shows that women who eat flame-broiled foods more than twice a month may be at increased risk of breast cancer when compared to women who don’t usually eat foods prepared that way. The good news, however, is that taking aspirin negated the potentially harmful effects. Women who eat tofu get less breast cancer. If you smoke, having lots of kids will help you to avoid lung cancer. And if you get cancer, despite your best efforts not to, there’s always?the shot.
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