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A big butt is good for your health »

Carrying extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs is good for your health, protecting against heart and metabolic problems, UK experts have said.
Hip fat mops up harmful fatty acids and contains an anti-inflammatory agent that stops arteries clogging, they say.
Big behinds are preferable to extra fat around the waistline, which gives no such protection, [...]

Your Brain On Krispy Kremes »

What makes you suddenly dart into the bakery when you spy chocolate- frosted donuts in the window, though you certainly hadn’t planned on indulging? As you lick the frosting off your fingers, don’t blame a lack of self-control…
New research from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine reveals how hunger works in the brain and the [...]

Get out of the gym and back to the couch: Exercise does not help you lose weight! »

Link of the day – How to Break a Weight Loss Plateau
That exercise is the key to losing our collective weight is something that we know so deep in our cultural guts that to question it would be ridiculous.
Except that is what the most cutting-edge obesity researchers are now doing. The recent studies show that [...]

107-year-old Malaysian woman seeks 23rd husband »

Link of the day – Five Steps to a Super Shredded Body
A 107-year-old Malaysian woman says she is ready to marry for the 23rd time because she fears her current drug addict husband might leave her for a younger woman, a report said Monday.
Wook Kundor made headlines four years ago when she married Muhammad Noor [...]

Hot or Not…Men Like Thin and Seductive Women, Say Psychologists »

Link of the day – Intermittent Fasting As a Way to Reduce Calorie Intake for Fat Loss

When it comes to the question of who’s hot or not, research has found that beauty is skin deep for men and in the eye of the beholder for women.
The study by psychologists from a North Carolina university has [...]