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...funny thing is that the same headlines are still making news - except written in reverse. On March 29, the New York Daily News declared: "Fatty foods may be just as addictive as heroin and cocaine: study." Indeed, a look at Americans' collectively expanding waistline - with two-thirds of adults qualifying as overweight or obese - would suggest that the Scientific American article may have actually understated the addictiveness of junk food, not cocaine. Some addiction researchers might even argue that potato chips - and other high-fat, high-calorie foods - are more effective than a crack pipe in terms of keeping "users...
...question is, does this data really show that the ubiquity of cheap junk food will turn us all into junkies? Not really. A closer look at certain key elements of this study and of prior research helps clarify who - mouse or man - is most likely to get hooked and who isn't, and why addiction involves a lot more than mere exposure to a substance...
...been more than two and a half months since the earthquake shook every fiber of Haitian society. I was here on a trip from the U.S. to visit my family when it hit and have stayed for most of the aftermath. But when I look at the streets of Port-au -Prince, the catastrophe still seems so much closer in time, as if it has just happened. Monstrous piles of rubble still hold the remains of thousands of earthquake victims. Haitians drift with no purpose during the day, returning to insecure shelters at night. (See the end of the search...
...doing something online, you're more likely to follow - whether the activity is telling the world what color bra you're wearing or doing something more goal-oriented. Jennifer Weber says the site helped her catch the marathon bug. "When all these people around you are doing it, you look at them and think, 'Well, if they can run a marathon ...,' " she says. "It spreads like wildfire." The 23-year-old ran her first marathon not long after moving across the country to New York City for her first postcollege job and is now training for her third big race...
...Secretary of State Trey Grayson, by more than $100,000. In Florida, conservative insurgent Marco Rubio has raised more than $3.4 million and is leading Governor Charlie Crist, the presumptive Republican candidate, in the polls. To see the potential dangers of the Tea Party groundswell, the GOP leadership need look no further than the debacle in New York's 23rd district - where Democrats won a Republican safe seat after conservative activists put up a third candidate against Dede Scozzafava, a GOP candidate deemed too moderate by Tea Party types. (Watch a video about the Florida...