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YouTube - How to confuse an idiot

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Eating Junk Food May Help Stressed-Out Monkeys Cope

a team tried that experiment at Yerkes by installing feeders with a constant supply of banana-flavored pellets…Once these foods were available, the low-status monkeys promptly developed an appetite. They began eating significantly more calories than their social superiors. While the dominant monkeys dabbled in the sweet, fatty pellets just during the daytime, the subordinate monkeys kept scarfing them down after dark.

Eating Junk Food May Help Stressed-Out Monkeys Cope - New York Times.

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HFCS is not ‘natural’, says FDA

Products containing high fructose corn syrup cannot be considered ‘natural’ and should not be labeled as such, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said.

nutraingredients-usa.com

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Magical Thinking

Even hard-core skeptics can’t help but find sympathy in the fabric of the universe—and occasionally try to pull its strings.

Psychology Today

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Bravo! Short and to the point

Op-ed: Shopping Without Asterisks

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Hawaii Moves To Ban Aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal, Etc)

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative for the public health, safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and its derivative compounds, in all of their trade names, are poisonous and deleterious food additives due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic metabolites.

rense.com

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Suing Big Companies In Small Claims Court Is Fun And Easy

typical expenditure for a small claims suit: $24 and 45 minutes. The $24 is the cost to file a claim. The 45 minutes includes his total time of driving to and from court to file, as well as the time spent on the phone with the company when they call to settle.

Consumerist

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Jeremy Clarkson stung for Fraud stunt gets punished

“The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again,” he said. “I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake.”

Guardian Unlimited

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Companies move to halt junk food advertising

Nearly a dozen global food companies will on Tuesday announce plans to halt advertising junk food to children under 12 throughout Europe by the end of next year in the first serious attempt by food groups to tackle one of the causes of childhood obesity.

FT.com / Europe / Brussels - Companies move to halt junk food advertising.

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The 6 Most Overhyped Technologies

A funny article, and they aren’t wrong

The 6 Most Overhyped Technologies | Cracked.com

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