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It’s Now Illegal To Be Fat In Japan
In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki Yabe, 39, a manager at a major transportation corporation, went on a crash diet last month. In the week before her company’s annual health check-up, Yabe [...]
Dating Site for Beautiful People Expels ‘Fatties’ after Holiday Weight Gain
(CNN) — A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a “strict ban on ugly people” has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.
The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members after they posted photos “revealing that they have let themselves go,” according to [...]
Donating A Kidney Creates ‘Pre-existing Condition’ Meaning No More Insurance Coverage For You!
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Kidney donors may face huge medical bills because having one kidney may constitute a pre-existing condition under which coverage is denied, officials confirm.
A Texas hospital official said organ donors are told, but only orally, that having one kidney may be a pre-existing condition affecting insurance.
Philip Knisely, 53, of [...]
Gamblers Continue Playing Because Want to Win and…Lose
Even though they lose, gamblers feel almost the same excitement as when they win, says new research.
“Gamblers often interpret near misses as special events, which encourage them to continue to gamble,” claims Dr Luke Clark, from Cambridge University, who led the study.
“Our findings show that the brain responds to near misses as if a win [...]
Caffeine May Cause to Hallucinations
A person who take in the caffeine equivalent of three cups of brewed coffee is more likely to hallucinate, says new study.
Researchers at Durham University found that people with a caffeine intake that high, whether it came from coffee, tea, chocolate or caffeinated energy drinks or pills, had a 3-times-higher tendency to hear voices and [...]
