Eating Too Much? Try Sleeping More
A new study suggests that INCREASING the amount of sleep that you get could lead to DECREASING the amount of food you eat (and we’ve REDUCED the price of our famous diet book, so that YOU can reduce too), but the results may differ between men and women.
Researcher Marie-Pierre St-Onge says, "We were surprised by the lack of a significant effect of sleep on glucose and insulin."
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As Water Rises, Look What Happened in the Past
As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, threatening coastal cities, geologists are trying to predict the future by looking at what happened when sea levels rose in the past. Meanwhile, high levels of methane are showing up in the Arctic, and there’s a big danger that a huge rise of temperatures in the Arctic will destabilize huge amounts of methane currently frozen in the sea ice on the ocean floor.
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Careful, He’s Listening
Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, they begin absorbing language while still in the womb.
Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks, and a new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, and at birth they can demonstrate what they’ve heard.
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