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Researchers gathered 14 men — a small number, admittedly — and made them look at pictures of curvy women while scanning their brains. The researchers found that looking at curvy bodies activated parts of the men’s brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol.

“These findings could help further our understanding pornography addiction and related disorders, such as erectile dysfunction in the absence of pornography,” said researcher Steven Platek, an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. “These findings could also lend to the scientific inquiry about sexual infidelity.”

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Not all sandwiches are calorie-laden turd-bags from Obesity Hell. With a few smart choices, certain key ingredients, and knowledge of what’s healthy and what’s not can enable you to enjoy a good delicious lunch without sacrificing your health. Here are 10 awesome and healthy sandwich recipes you can actually use.

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If you’re more on the chubby side, you probably should blame your kitchen and what it contains. From the size of your platter, to your kitchen layout, to your pantry pace, even the clarity of your HUGE cookie jar matter — these contribute to make you eat more.

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Flibanserin, originally meant to fight depression, is a dismal failure in its original pharmacological purpose, but turns out to be an effective libido booster for women.

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Top aging scientists are having an important conference at Manhattan Beach next month to talk about how getting old and dying will be “obsolete” by 2029. The most viable technologies to achieve this, says the press release, will be nanotechnology, gene therapy, and organ regrowth and transplantation.

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A startup called Vitality Inc. designed a pill bottle system that automatically reminds you when it’s time to take your pills, so you won’t forget.

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New research suggests what we’ve already understood as truth: lack of sleep can not only make you an unpleasant human being, but it can also actually kill you.

From the obvious health-related effects of lack of sleep, such as obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and shorter lives. There’s even new findings that lack of sleep causes Alzheimer’s disease plaques, albeit in mice. Worse, long-term lack of sleep may cause changes in the brain that may stay permanently, which may predispose people to mental disorders like depression.

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Because on one hand, research and development for new antibiotics is ridiculously costly, and on the other hand, rapid resistance to antibiotics means the pharma company stops earning from it, the result is an increasingly desperate need for new antibiotics that can cure emerging diseases, or even effectively treat existing ones.

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Even rich, famous, beautiful women get sick, really sick. But these 11 celebrities — from Christina Applegate to Olivia Newton-John –are living proof that even breast cancer can be defeated, and their stories of triumph have created or attracted support to cancer awareness organizations and research.

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Estrogens can fuel the growth of many tumors, even in the prostate–and estrogen can do this at amazingly tiny concentrations. Identifying how estrogens’ prevalence varies by milk type, and in what chemical form the hormones occur, required a new assay, which the NCI scientists describe in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Chromatography B.

Using that technique, they showed that the mélange of estrogens varies widely between milks. Whole milk contained the smallest quantity of estrogens, and amounts ascended from 2% to skim and buttermilk. In all of these milks, the majority of estrogens had undergone a minor chemical modification, rendering them less directly bioavailable and less hormonally active.

However, these modified, or conjugated, estrogens are not inert, and they can be converted back to their more potent parent compounds.

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