Researcher Donatella Marazziti has discovered that your hormones change when you fall in love. After measuring the hormones of men and women who claimed to be in love, she says, "The most intriguing finding is related to testosterone."
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We know the Earth’s magnetic poles will flip soon and that they’ve done it before in the past. But the magnetic field is what protects us from being roasted by the sun’s ultraviolet rays, as well as by cosmic rays from space. How are we going to survive the long period when this field is weakened during the pole reversal? Some scientists are hoping that we’ll be protected by the very solar wind that will do vast damage to our electronic infrastructure.
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So many of you took advantage of our offer to include a free William Henry DVD with every order of William Henry’s books that William’s shelves in our store are almost bare and we’re temporarily out of DVDs. William is in Egypt right now, but he promises to send us more books and more free DVDs when he returns. So you might have to wait a few weeks, but your order WILL be fulfilled and you WILL get your free DVD! If you want non-William Henry items as well, it would be best to order those separately, so we can send them right away. And thanks so much for being such loyal customers?you’re the ones who keep us here, bringing you the best of news of the “edge.”
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The smell of good food coming from the kitchen always makes us hungry, but scientists now say these smells can actually make us eat less. Dr. Alan Hirsch, who has invented fragrance crystals to sprinkle on food, says the smell “fools your brain into thinking you’ve eaten more and thus you eat less. You can eat whatever you want to eat. You eat whatever you normally would eat. You’ll feel full faster, you’ll eat less.”
Dieter Donella Banks says, “I was actually shocked because I’ve been trying to lose weight?ever since I was in high school?so when I started losing weight, I couldn’t believe it. Sometimes you don’t even get to finish the entire meal. It’s not by choice, you know. Once you sprinkle and then you start eating, then you’re full.”
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