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Eat all you
want... and
don’t gEt fat!
We all know
now that the
Mediterranean diet
boasts a host of
health benefits. Now
there’s one more
reason to join club
Med – it could mean
you can eat as much
as you want without
weight gain! Sounds
too good to be true,
but an American
study found that
primates eating a
Mediterranean diet
chose to eat fewer
calories and had less
body fat than those
on a more traditional
Western diet. Pass
the olive oil...is the recommended
portion of rice to add to your
daily diet to combat obesity,
according to Japanese scientists
who studied eating habits
around the world.
50g...
Turn up the heat f or better ideas
If you’ve ever shared an office,
you’ll know that it can be hard
for co-workers to agree on
what the temperature should
be. But now, female desk-
shiverers have an extra reason
to whack up the thermostat:
science has decreed that
women think better when
warmer. The study, byresearchers in LA and Berlin,
tested more than 500
participants, giving them
verbal and maths tests at
temperatures ranging from 16
to 32 degrees centigrade.
Women were found to
perform better at the higher
end, while men excelled
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