Fact O' The Day

[Krandall]

"Unhappiness makes you financially reckless."


Researchers at Harvard and Columbia set out to test the theory that sadness actually impairs rational decision-making, rather than making people more measured and cautious. They split participants into three groups. One group watched a video with sad overtones (about the death of a boy's mentor), another watched a video intended to engender disgust and a final group watched a neutral video. All participants were then presented with a common discounting scenario, in which they could either have $85 in the future or a smaller fraction immediately. Participants usually took some pay cut in order to be paid immediately, but their willingness to take a steeper discount was used as a measure of self-control. The sadness group wound up taking dramatically larger losses -- on average, they opted to walk away with $37 of a potential $85. For comparison, the average control group participant and the average disgust group participant walked away with $56.

[Krandall]

"The longer your commute is, the poorer your health."


According to a study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, the longer your commute to work is, the more likely you are to weigh more, to have higher blood pressure and to be less physically fit in general. Data from the study comes from 4,297 adults surveyed in Texas (in an area in which 90% of the public commutes to work). The top 10 areas of the country with the longest commutes all average around a half hour or more -- the New York metropolitan area is the longest, at an average of 35 minutes, while the metro area with the shortest commute is Great Falls, Montana (at 14 minutes on average).

[Krandall]

"Women have the most sex at 25, while men do at 29."


The Best Sex Survey, conducted by sex toy retailer Lovehoney, asked respondents about the quality and frequency of sex over the course of their lifetimes. On average, the survey found, people tend to have the most sex as they're approaching 30. However, activity is apparently separate from quality; the majority of respondents weren't having the best sex when they were having the
most sex. Women tended to have their best sex at 28, and men at 33. The survey also found that the average age at which people lost their virginity was the same for both genders (17), except for respondents in their 60s (for whom it was 18) and those younger than 20 (for whom it was just shy of 16).

[Colorado700R]

Fact: We draw like shit!

[Peelz]

Fact: We draw like shit!

[Krandall]

2nded.

I should take a screenshot of the pics my friend draws. he's good.

[Krandall]

"Raisins make you eat less."


A study announced at the annual meeting of the Canadian Nutrition Society followed the eating behaviors of young children (8-11 years old) for three months. The participants were told to eat either raisins or some other kind of snack (including potato chips, cookies and grapes). The rest of each child's diet was the same on test days, during which they ate standardized meals. The kids who ate raisins ate less overall than the other participants. The raisin group also had the highest satiety and recorded the lowest desire to eat more.

[Krandall]

"Exercise reduces nerve pain."


According to a study in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, exercise reduces inflammation-related pain associated with neuropathic conditions (those involving damage to the peripheral nervous system). Researchers examined sciatic nerve injury in rats, assigning some of the animals to swim or run on a treadmill for a few weeks. The rats who exercised showed a substantial reduction in observable pain behaviors. Neuropathic pain is ordinarily difficult to treat -- it doesn't respond to common pain medications and is only somewhat controlled by antidepressants. This study represents a new non-drug possibility in dealing with these conditions.

[Krandall]

"Porn correlates with unhappiness in relationships."


A study at the University of Florida polled 308 female participants, ranging from 18 to 29 years old, all of them heterosexual. Results indicated that women whose partners watch porn often were substantially less happy in relationships than women whose partners don't. On top of that, women who were actively bothered by their partner's porn habits (saying, for example, that their interest was greater than "normal") were more likely to have low self-esteem and to be unhappy with their sex lives and their relationships.

[Magz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  GUESS I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING PORN........ 

[Peelz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  GUESS I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING PORN........ 

donkey videos are not included in the study. 

[Magz]

lets carry on then   

[Krandall]

"Baldness is linked to prostate cancer."


A study at the University of Toronto found that prostate biopsies were more likely to result in a cancer diagnosis when the biopsied men were bald. The exact mechanism of this correlation is unknown, but some researchers theorize that androgens -- the hormones responsible for the development of secondary sex characteristics -- affect both baldness and prostate cancer. Previous research also indicates a possible link between finger length and prostate cancer (as index- and ring-finger length are, possibly like prostate cancer, influenced by the level of sex hormones in the womb).

[Magz]

AHHHHHH crap...........

you should re-name this thread "bad news for mags of the day"   

[Peelz]

lol magz


good for me....