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Research published this week has added to a growing body of evidence confirming what common sense has suggested for some time—drinking soda can cause obesity. One of the studies, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, said that increased soda consumption in adolescent girls can predict increases in weight. This study, and another in the Journal of American Clinical Nutrition, add to the growing literature of the ill effects of soda. “Over the long term, the excess calories [from soda] lead to weight gain and there is evidence that over the last decade caloric intake...
...team's findings, just published in a paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry, have far-reaching implications, argues co-author Philip Mitchell, convenor of Brain Sciences UNSW, which encompasses staff from the University of New South Wales and affiliated institutes. By helping to predict the likelihood and timing of depressive episodes, Mitchell says, "this gives us the potential for true prevention of depression." Any move into prevention, however, raises issues that the authors of the paper have only begun to grapple with...
...visit to Helmand reveals how challenging such a campaign would be. Just outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, lies a vast expanse of poppy farms. A glut has driven down the market price, but the flower is still the country's most profitable crop, according to farmers. Officials predict this year's yield in Helmand will be double last year...
...total TV audience?and millions more around the world. The easing of political tension between India and Pakistan has also allowed the two great South Asian rivals to play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball's trajectory and touch screens that allow commentators to write their analysis across the picture have made cricket one of the flashier sports on TV. Speed says even the length of the games?Test matches between national sides can take five days and a series one month or more...
...band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network of fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output over six albums since the band first got together in 1996 - seemed to predict. Now there's a seventh album, The Life Pursuit, that again shows the septet to be more than capable of charming the world beyond the already devoted. So will this one be the real breakthrough? "I'm a late starter," says Stuart Murdoch, the band's 37-year-old lead singer...