Why do antisocial men attract women?
News
A new study aims to answer the old question: why do good women fall for bad men?
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 27, 2007
Autism could result from high levels of male hormone in the womb
Features
Autism-like behaviour in children is linked to the amount of testosterone they receive whilst in their mother's womb, according to a long term study of behavioural changes in children.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 12, 2007
How odd that it's always women with tummy troubles in the TV ads. Don't blokes have insides?
Features
A grim prediction from Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. By the middle of this century, says he, if we're not careful, 50% of our children will be obese. You can tell that the nation's innards are in deep trouble just by watching your telly. See all those ads for tummy problems; wind, bloating, constipation, squitters? And those Billy Bunter men in armchairs who can't even get up to play footer, and Gillian McKeith studying excrement? We never used to see that sort of thing on our screens. But now our diets are in such a dire state that we're beyond embarrassment, just desperate for a remedy. Well here is one. Eat less, reject rubbish snacks and move about more.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 10, 2007
Noise of modern life blamed for thousands of heart deaths
Features
Coronary heart disease caused 101,000 deaths in the UK in 2006.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 23, 2007
Pot bellies linked to heart disease
Features
People with even small pot bellies have a higher risk of developing heart disease later in life than those with slimmer waists, doctors warned yesterday.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 14, 2007
Half of all boys will be obese, warns leaked report
Features
The government's pledge to halt the soaring rate of childhood obesity within three years in fact cannot be achieved until 2050, warns a damning report commissioned by ministers to help them tackle the problem.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: July 31, 2007
Men 'just as chatty as women'
Features
Men and women talk as much as each other, suggests a study which says that, on average, both genders speak around 16,000 words a day - a fact challenging the traditional notion that girls are considerably more chatty than boys.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: July 09, 2007
