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...says, and "the golden rule is to balance these three nutrients and a daily calorie intake. Once you understand that, you don't have to be swayed by the fad diet any more, whether it is a konnyaku (alimentary yam paste) or a banana diet." But a nation prone to dieting fads often ignores such sober advice...
Shortcuts, for example, make us more prone to do whatever everyone else is doing - or whatever Jim Cramer tells us to do. "The brain cannot afford to re-evaluate on a millisecond by millisecond basis. So it will use other people's opinion as a proxy for its own," says Emory University neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, author of the new book Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently...
...seems old news to say the world has turned upside down: The flagship American financial services industry is in shambles, the free-market-prone Bush administration had to beg Congress to pass one of the largest government interventions in history, and before we know it, someone like Governor Sarah Palin may literally be a heartbeat away from becoming Commander in Chief of the world’s only military superpower. And now, amidst the havoc, an unlikely alliance between Russia and Venezuela has developed in the interconnected realms of energy and defense...
...plans on where the voting rolls stood in August, long before student-voter drives even started, let alone achieved record successes. To accommodate the swollen voting rolls, many understaffed offices will have to hire temps or new employees who are less familiar with standard procedures and may be more prone to making mistakes...
...determined by the flip of a coin—they were rewarded with two-and-a-half times the amount invested. If the “investment” failed, the participant lost his money. The team hoped to further analyze the cross-cultural finding that women are less prone to risky behavior than men. “Because you see these sex differences in risk-taking, we hypothesized that testosterone may play a role,” said Coren L. Apicella, a graduate student in anthropology who co-authored the study. They measured participants’ testosterone levels...