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Archive for February, 2008

Alcohol causes hearing loss -

It has been shown that alcohol temporarily effects hearing ability, so don’t have any important conversations over a drink. Recently British researchers discovered that when your alcohol level rises till 0,08 per mill, your hearing threshold is lowered by 15 decibels on average. This is equal to the effect of wearing ear plugs. And according […]

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Physical labor reduces chance of prostate cancer -

The risk of prostate cancer is reduced by doing heavy physical labor the whole day. Moving a lot seems to reduce the chance of various kinds of cancer.
Men who perform heavy physical labor all day have 45 percent less chance of prostate cancer. Men who only do heavy physical labor every now and then do […]

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Americans stop eating too late -

Americans in general keep eating even though they are full. French people don’t seem to have that issue though.
French students always have enough room for dessert if they know beforehand that there will be one. American students often don’t have room. This is because they don’t stop eating when they have had enough. They keep […]

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Polluted air reduces IQ in children -

Children from neighborhoods where there is a lot of air pollution, have lower test results in IQ tests than children from neighborhoods where the air is clean. The effect of polluted air is comparable to that of a mother smoking 10 cigarettes daily during her pregnancy.
That breathing in polluted air is bad for your health […]

Popularity: 15% [?]