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Vegetarians can pig out too. While they tend to eat healthier diets and are less likely than non-vegetarians to be overweight or obese, they may be at increased risk for binge eating with loss of control, and former vegetarians may be at increased risk for extreme unhealthful weight-control behaviors.

When researchers analyzed the eating habits of over 2,500 male and female vegetarians, they found that adolescents and young adults were more likely to report binge eating with loss of control compared to non-vegetarians. Examples of extreme unhealthful weight-control behaviors included “took diet pills,” “made myself vomit,” “used laxatives” and “used diuretics.”

Vegetarians may sometimes be smarter?but not always!

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If you Twitter, you should realize that rapid-fire media of this type may confuse your moral compass and you may end up sending messages that are harsher than a live conversation (or written letter) would be. Why does email sometimes cause us to act this way?

This happens because the emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind?much more slowly than our fingers can type on the computer. Admiration and compassion–two of the social emotions that define humanity–take longer for the brain to process, and by then it may be too late: you may have already pressed the "send" button.
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Fuel from ice? How about fuel from algae?and the water it lives in!

The invention of an efficient system for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen will be what shows us if hydrogen really does have the potential to be a clean, sustainable fuel. But manmade systems that exist today to do this are very inefficient and often require the use of additional chemicals. But anew method uses a simple chemical process powered by sunlight.
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Australian astronomers are keeping an eye on an exploding star they call WR104 that could end all life on earth. Before you say it couldn’t happen, note that a smaller version of this has happened here before.

This star is actually TWO stars and it’s getting ready to explode at any time. When a binary start like this one collapses into a black hole, it releases a huge burst of lethal gamma rays.

Whitley?s new novel “The Omega Point,” which will be published in the fall of 2009, deals with this situation.

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