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If You Have This Body Shape, People Think You Crave More Sex, Says Study If You Have This Body Shape, People Think You Crave More Sex, Says Study As economists such as Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D., have long shown, human beings are far from rational beings. We make terrible decisions all the time, fueled by inherent psychological biases that are rooted in ancient human behaviors that are no longer relevant in the modern world—if they were ever even relevant at all. The list of our hardwired cognitive biases is as long as the dictionary, and it's something that people in the marketing and advertis...

Screenshot: Capcom You really don’t! Clocking in at 2.9m (or 9'6") tall, Lady Dimitrescu is probably the absolute last individual you’d want stepping on you. Advertisement Previously, we saw how the character compared to real humans—she towered over them. In a sponsored clip, YouTuber Kyle Hill did the math to figure out what would happen if she actually stepped on someone. “Unlike Lady Dimitrescu’s height, we do not have a canonical mass, so we’re going to have to estimate it indirectly,” explained Hill. To do that, he used the concept of body mass index, which is an imperfec...

16 April 2021 COVID-19 patients who are overweight or obese have more severe symptoms and are highly likely to require invasive respiratory support, according to a new international study. The research, led by The University of Queensland and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), found obese patients had a 73 per cent greater chance of needing invasive mechanical ventilation and were more likely to require oxygen. UQ’s Dr Kirsty Short said similar but more modest results were seen in overweight patients, but no link was found between being overweight or obese...

Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Contributor (Getty Images) Social media has long been the bane and the muse of anyone suffering from an eating disorder. To exist online with a pulse in the year 2012 was to understand the cesspool of “thinspiration”-style content that proliferated on platforms like Tumblr, Xanga and Pinterest, and more recently, the rise of “influencer” culture has all but ensured that an endless stream of images of thin, toned and otherwise perfect-presenting women are ever-present in Instagram and Youtube feeds. Advertisement On Monday, a handful of social media platfor...

Up to Half of New Type 2 Diabetes Cases in U.S. Are Linked to Obesity, Study Finds Photo: Joerg Sarbach (AP) New research released Wednesday underscores the role of obesity in type 2 diabetes. It suggests that obesity plays a major factor in up to half of new diabetes cases that occur annually in the U.S. Advertisement The link between obesity and type 2 diabetes—a condition where blood sugar levels become uncontrollable and stay too high—is well established. But the authors say their new study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, provides a more recent estimate on...