This week’s Unclassifiable Headline of the Week appears on GMA News: “Twitter can help weight loss – study“.
Tag: weight
The German beer belly is misunderstood [study]
A team of scientists has attacked the idea that beer is the main cause of beer bellies in Germans. As with many biomedical questions, an absolute, indisputable answer may be impossible. To obtain it would require continuously monitoring and measuring, over a span of years, every sip and morsel drunk and eaten by a vast number of […]
Knight on a treadmill (a tale of energy spent)
ScienceNOW reports on a new study (published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B) about knights of old: Heavy Armor Gave Knights a Workout Knights in shining armor paid a heavy price for the protection their suits provided them from swords, arrows, and Frenchmen catapulting cows. Researchers have found that the steel plate-mail armor worn during […]