political nonsense

America has gotten fatter since last year.
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Researchers in Uganda said that washing the penis after sex increases the risk of HIV infection. “Don’t just finish and jump out of bed,” advised Dr. Ronald Gray, co-author of the study. “There ought to be a little time left for postcoital cuddling.”

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A new study suggested that drinking soda with high fructose corn syrup makes you fat and diabetic.

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Eating junk food while your pregnant might make your kids fat.

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US researchers reported that women who get cosmetic breast implants are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women.

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Scientists debunked a scientist’s claim that for meat-eaters, driving is better for the environment than walking.
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The Senate passed a bi-partisan bill that would expand health insurance to millions of low-income American children by a margin large enough to override the threatened presidential veto.
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Scientists reported that environmental hazards are killing four million children every year.
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Smoking a single joint of weed has the same impact on breathing capacity as up to five cigarettes.
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Scientists discovered that a growing numbers of vegans refuse to have sex meat-eaters, because they are a “a graveyard for animals.”

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A school in Australia made sunglasses mandatory.

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A new Gallup poll on smoking shows that 21 percent of U.S. adults currently smoke cigarettes, the lowest percentage since U.S. polling began in 1944.
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A group of prostitutes thought to be immune to HIV have now become infected, causing dismay to scientists hoping to develop an AIDS vaccine.
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Scientists reported that skinny people don’t like fat people because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease.
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Current and former public health officials revealed that a surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems were kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy accomplishments.
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Obesity is contagious.
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A presidential panel on military and veterans health care released a report Wednesday concluding that the system was insufficient for the demands of two modern wars and called for improvements, including far-reaching changes in the way the government determines the disability status and benefits of injured soldiers and veterans.
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The maker of OxyContin, and three of its executives were ordered Friday to pay a $634.5 million fine for misleading the public about the painkiller’s risk of addiction.
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A Mexican man was awarded Guinness Book of Record of the world’s fattest man at 1,234 pounds after losing 440 pounds. “I’m glad to be in the Guinness Book as the fattest man. I am also happy to have lost 200 kilos,” Manuel Uribe, 41, told AFP.

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If Americans keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 per cent of US adults overweight and 41 percent obese, researchers have predicted.
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