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It is found that how tempting food may seem could depend on a person’s level of the hormone leptin. Weight is not only controlled by calorie intake and exercise, but also by complex brain complexes. Someday, scientists might be able to develop weight-loss drugs that modify the brain’s reaction to food.

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I am sure that other mothers out there have eaten things off their kid's plates from time to time. When my kids were toddlers, it seemed that was the only way I could catch a meal--by eating whatever was left on their plates.

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Women who have just given birth should not worry about getting their bodies back in shape immediately, a leading Germany health insurer said. "A woman's body has enough to do after a baby arrives,"said Waltraud Pfarrer, listing milk production and hormonal adjustment as esmaples. New mothers also have to reckon with fatifue because babies typically wake in the night to nurse, added Pfarrer of the insurer DAK in Hamburg.And nursing a child requires an average of an aditional 600 calories a day.

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If you yell for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas it produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it.)

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
(In my next life I want to be a pig.)
(How'd they figure this out, and why?)

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Winter is almost a memory and spring is just around the corner. Of course, with spring comes warmer weather, which brings out the shorts, little tee-shirts and dare I say it, swimsuits. Yikes!

If you are hoping to rid yourself of those extra holiday pounds (and maybe some that have been around a lot longer than that!), the time to begin is now. Losing weight is a national pastime; heck with baseball, I think weight loss is the national pastime.

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