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Just as one of the most skinsational shows on television, Game of Thrones , is winding down, a new show, Power , is picking up the torch and carrying it all the way into your pants! Check out pics from both shows after the jump!
Just as one of the most skinsational shows on television, Game of Thrones , is winding down, a new show, Power , is picking up the torch and carrying it all the way into your pants! Check out pics from both shows after the jump!
We all know Oreos are addictive, but a new study suggests that the cookies are as addicting as actual drugs … at least in the way the brain responds to them. The “pleasure center” of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, apparently gets just as activated in response to Oreos as it does to cocaine and morphine. Oreos: Addictive! That could certainly have some pretty major public health implications if Oreos were as damaging to one’s system as the aforementioned narcotics. They’re not, of course, and the study was only done in rats. However, the Connecticut College authors say it’s likely relevant to humans as well. It could explain, they say why people have such a hard time resisting eating an entire sleeve of the cookies after they’ve set out just to eat one. The study, to be presented at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference, also claims that rats, like humans, like to eat Oreo’s creamy center first. To test how the animals responded to Oreos vs. drugs, the team trained mice to navigate a maze. On one side, Oreos were provided. On the other? Rice cakes. As you’d guess, the rats were more likely to spend time on the Oreo side. Rats treated with morphine or cocaine rather than Oreos reacted similarly. They found that regardless of what “substance” the rats were offered (Oreos, coke, or morphine) they spent about the same time on the “drug” side. “Our research supports the theory that high-fat/high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” professor Joseph Schroeder said. “It may explain why some people can’t resist these foods,” he added, echoing a common refrain, “despite the fact that they know they are bad for them.” The research may thus bear some relevance to public health issues, namely the fact that high-calorie foods are often low-priced and highly addictive. And the fallout from poor eating behaviors can be as dramatic as that from drugs, said the authors, even if the risk of death from one usage is lower.
A Boston-area man picked up a restaurant tab for a stranger he overheard tearfully discussing a medical diagnosis, and the waiter documented it on Reddit. “While waiting tables tonight, a mother and daughter started crying mid-meal,” wrote the server on the site, describing the heartwarming experience. “I had no idea what happened until a single guy at the table next to them handed me this note [seen below] with his bill. Faith in humanity, restored.” The waiter told the Huffington Post he couldn’t confirm the relationship between the two women, but he was fairly certain they were mother and daughter. After they ordered, the woman whom the waiter believes was the daughter took a phone call. Both women then started crying. Recounts the server: “The single guy sitting next to them had been friendly to me all evening, making jokes and such.” “When he was finished I gave him his check, and inside the billfold was his credit card and the note I took a picture of. I combined the 2 checks, and he paid for both.” “I waited until after he left to tell them their check had been taken care of. The mother was overwhelmed with gratitude, as was I. It was a great evening.” And now a great story to make you feel a little better about life. In a world where so much seems to go wrong, it’s good to know there are people like this.
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