Ghrelin and Leptin
Sounds suspiciously like two characters from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, doesn't it? Actually, not. These two are hormones that apparently work in consort to wreck havoc on your body. Leptin purports to signal your brain that you are full,...
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Some guys have all the luck
I suspect when Rod Stewart crooned this tune he wasn’t thinking about little furry rodents. Clearly some University of Bonn scientists were. These enterprising scientists made the discovery that if they fed viagra to mice (who had raised their little...
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Evolutionary Data
"Do you want the extra deep scrubbing, scraping, abrasive rubbing callous treatment, hon" said Mildred my mani pedi expert, examining them criticially after having me remove them from the almost scalding hot water that I was afraid to tell her...
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Married how many times??
The conversation flows, the mutual interests are established, the overlaps are incredible. Is there nothing we don't share, you wonder? Multiple "I do's" might be one. Unless this particular person is a practicing polygamist, I've never quite understood the concept...
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Are You “Still The One?”
Had Shania been singing “Happy Trails To You” this image might have worked for me. Apparently, according to the NY Times, she was warbling “You’re Still The One.” Maybe she’s onto something. That is, if she and Trigger have been...
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Predictable or Unpredictable??
He said he'd call, he called. He said he'd pick you up at 7, promptly at 7 the doorbell rang. He said you didn't look fat in those jeans. You believed him. That one doesn't count, gullible and predictable are...
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Want a election day diversion?
Are you a label reader? Do you carefully, thoughtfully and compulsively need to know every ingredient in your food? Too much salt, not enough vitamin B,D,C, too high in sugar? GMO's are the next piece of info to be considered....
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Good news for chubettes?
Is there a correlation to your BMI (for those who skipped that chapter, it's your body mass index) and your dating life? Frankly, I think that any sentence with the word 'mass' in it, except for religious purposes, is probably...
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A sad day for happyish
Okay, men, this one is for you. Remember this tune? "I want to be happy, but I can't be happy, 'til I make you happy too." Not happening. Unless, that is, you have her undergo an extensive DNA mapping to...
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Aspirations
Having no skill set for loftier goals, like developing sustainable agricultural techniques or saving endangered species, I've set my sights somewhat lower. I want to write the next incarnation of a Shades of Grey trilogy. It's been called the erotic...
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L.A.T.
A misspelling of the abbreviation for a Latvian? That incredibly humongous muscle located somewhere in your back? Lumberman's Association of Texas? Give up? It's the acronym Living Apart Together. Apparently, it describes how two people can be committed to one another...
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Willpower
Defined as…Self control. Determination. Drive. Grit. Single mindedness. Can you relate? Picture Helen, who wasn't going to indulge in even the teeniest, tiniest, itsy bitsyish, mini slice of the cake she had just baked. Controlled. Determined. Eating the left over...
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Deceptions
"You look great, gorgeous, fantastic," he said. "Oh, no, really, I don't" she said, casting her eyes downward, eyelashes a flutter. Gently rearranging the curl that had fallen into her line of vision, was she pantomiming the ultimate female flirt maneuver?...
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Seeing is Believing
In 1968, the story goes, some enterprising creatives at the venerated advertising agency BBDO slipped 15 marbles, or thereabouts, under the vegetables in a bowl of vegetable soup. Not for flavor enhancement, you understand, but to keep the vegetables from...
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Multiple Choices
"So," he wrote to her in his first 'on line find your soulmate forever and ever' correspondence, "you stated you like to travel. What's been your favorite place, thus far"? "Oh, that's easy," she responded, "without a doubt, following the...
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Making sense of senescent
Take a good luck at this image. Which one is the healthy one? Finished? It's the little guy on the right. Would you have picked him? That's why I'm not a scientist, but a slave to the fashion magazines....
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Seasonal Trauma
It's that time of the year again, isn't it? I'm not talking about desperately trying to locate last years unbelievably outstanding, to die for, turkey stuffing recipe; recalculating how many pounds of butternut squash it takes to make a really...
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Runner’s High
I have great admiration for the journalist Nicholas Kristof. He doubted WMD in Iraq. He focused his attention on genocide in Dafur. His columns dissect the issues of poverty, gender and health. He is also a self proclaimed pathological runner....
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Vanity, thy name is woman
Actually, the correct Shakespearean quip is "frailty, thy name is woman." Frailty, however, was no longer a useful descriptor of woman what with the advent of hormone replacement therapy coupled with the biphosphonates. Sally Fields became the patron saint of...
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The Last Rose of Summer
Right, it's a hydrangea. But, even Thomas Moore knew that hydrangea wouldn't work itself gracefully into a line of poetry. And besides, finding one rose alive and well while all its mates are preparing themselves to become sachet, wasn't easy....
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