Discovered: A new reason for declining childhood obesity rates; this massive goldfish shouldn't have been swimming in Lake Tahoe; flies give alcohol to their babies; bees sense electric flowers.
Discovered: Does sex really vanish when men do more chores?; weighing black holes; why you should get most of your eating in before 3:00 p.m.; a quarter-billion year old tapeworm.
Discovered: the most depressing day of the year; the problem with dieting after age 75; the truth about chimps; the dingo might not even be Australian.
Discovered: superstitious people don't work out; the unit for measuring space just got longer; kids consume adult levels of sodium; warp drive may be possible.
Discovered: A better way to make drugs, a "significant" heart risk with low-carb diets, our ancestors ate funny, and a possible medicine maker inside our bodies.
There are stats to back up the fact that a majority of engaged women want to drop as much as 20 pounds before they walk down the aisle. But there's a newer, more disturbing ante-up at work. Pre-wedding diets have become extreme.
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