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If you’re pregnant, be sure to eat a low-fat diet, or else your baby may be fat too?all his or her life! A study in rats shows that exposure to a high-fat diet during pregnancy produces permanent changes in the offspring’s brain that lead to overeating and obesity.

Researcher Sarah F. Leibowitz says, “We’ve shown that short-term exposure to a high-fat diet in utero produces permanent neurons in the fetal brain that later increase the appetite for fat. This work provides the first evidence for a fetal program that links high levels of fats circulating in the mother’s blood during pregnancy to the overeating and increased weight gain of offspring after weaning?We’re programming our children to be fat.”
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What kind of driver will he be? – No matter what kind of car they have, we all know that teens are terrible drivers. Since he may not have someone watching over him constantly, what can you do? Now there’s a solution!

Researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving by turning off the ignition when the teen uses the phone.
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…something you wouldn’t guess: they’re SHY – Something we wouldn’t have guessed: people who are left-handed are more shy and easily embarrassed than the rest of us.

In recent research, more lefties than righties said “yes” to statements like, “I worry about making mistakes.”

But that doesn’t mean that lefties don’t have fun: Both righties and lefties said “yes” at equal rates to statements like “I often act on the spur of the moment” and “I crave excitement and new sensations.”
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We all think we know what race we?and the people we meet?belong to, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes we define someone’s race by the JOB they do. Now that we have a black president, will that finally change?

Is race defined by appearance, researchers have discovered that a person also be colored by their socioeconomic status. A new study finds that Americans who are unemployed, incarcerated or impoverished today are more likely to be classified and identified as black, by themselves as well as by others, regardless of how they were seen?or self identified?in the past. These findings suggest that race may not be as simple as something you are born with.
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