Friday, July 30, 2010

Recipe for Longevity: No Smoking, Lots of Friends

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A healthy social life may be as good for your long-term health as avoiding cigarettes, according to a massive research review released Tuesday by the journal PLoS Medicine.

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Via: Time

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study

Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it's in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows.

What's important is not whether an athlete has an innie or an outie but where his or her navel is in relation to the rest of the body, says the study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics.

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Via: Yahoo News