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Coming your way soon? – The perfect diet would be one in which you keep eating the same amount, but still lose weight! It sounds impossible, but Australian scientists say they have discovered how to do just that.

By manipulating fat cells in mice, and removing a particular enzyme, they were able to speed up their metabolism, so they would burn more calories while eating the same diet. Hopefully, scientists will soon be able to do the same for US! In BBC News, Nick Bryant reports that the drug they used to do this is one of the same drugs that is ALREADY being used to treat high blood pressure in humans.
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Closing the ozone hole has been good for global warming too. Now an idea is being proposed to offset global warming by injecting reflective particles into the stratosphere. But this would have a drastic impact on Earth’s protective ozone layer.
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Will we do the same, or give in to Big Business? – We already know that plastic baby bottles are dangerous for boys. Now Canada says that the same kind of plastic (known as BPA) is poisonous for everyone!

In April 16th edition of the New York Times, Ian Austen reports that the Canadian government is about to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics that we use for eating and drinking. BPA is used in plastics for baby bottles, drink and food containers and the linings of food cans.

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