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If you want to stop eating junk food, just take a long look in the mirror. Unhealthy food tastes worse when you see yourself eating it! Scientists found people who ate unhealthy food found it less tasty if they looked at themselves eating it in the mirror. Looking at yourself eating a calorie filled cheeseburger or sloppy slice of pizza ... Read More »

The english entrepreneur Heather Mills is thankful for her vegan diet because she thinks it gives her more energy and makes her more productive. She said: “I found I had more energy [when I went vegan]. “I just love that feeling that I wake up in the morning and I don’t feel sluggish or rough and I’ve just got consistent ... Read More »

The number of twins being born in the U.S. is at an all-time high, but birth rates of other multiples are at their lowest in two decades. The rate of twin births in the United States reached a record high in 2014, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for ... Read More »

She captured the hearts of people across the country. But now baby Hermella, whose parents fought to keep on life support, has passed away. Nirmala Naidoo, family spokesperson from Open Arms Patient Advocacy Society, confirmed Monday Hermella Mammo died Dec. 20 at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. The story of the brown-haired, chubby-cheeked little girl who lived at the ... Read More »

A British couple have made history after a surrogate dog gave birth to the first cloned puppy of its kind on Boxing Day. Laura Jacques and Richard Remde from Yorkshire paid $100,000 to have the puppy cloned at a clinic in South Korea. The first-of-its-kind boxer puppy was born on Boxing Day and was cloned from Dylan two weeks after ... Read More »

A freight train carrying roughly 200,000 liters of sulphuric acid derailed in a remote area of Queensland, Australia. The 26-carriage train came off the tracks around 12 miles east of Julia Creek in northwest Queensland. Three people were treated for minor injuries, local media reports say. Read More »

Samsung’s growth recently reached a stall, which caused the company to go back to the drawing board and redesign its products form the ground up. Lesser build qualities seemed to be the blame, but some current and former Samsung executives seem to disagree with this idea; they believe the real issue with the Korean giant is the lack of software ... Read More »

A man distracted by an electronic device fell off a San Diego cliff that is a popular gathering spot to watch the sunset and plunged 60 feet to his death, officials said Saturday. “Witnesses stated seeing someone distracted by an electronic device and he just fell over the edge,” San Diego Lifeguard Bill Bender told KNBC. “(He) wasn’t watching where ... Read More »

Drugs are the probable cause of eight deaths in Greater Victoria in the past week, coroner Barb McLintock says. There have been one confirmed and seven suspected fatal overdoses since last Sunday, she said. Vancouver Island regional coroner Matt Brown said Wednesday that toxicology tests are now complete in the case of a man found dead in a stairwell at ... Read More »

Tooth fillings made with bioactive glass should slow secondary tooth decay, and also provide some minerals that could help replace those being lost. Engineers at Oregon State University have made some promising findings about the ability of “bioactive” glass to help reduce the ability of bacteria to attack composite tooth fillings – and perhaps even provide some of the minerals ... Read More »

Mall St. Matthews in Louisville was shut down after as many as 2,000 kids and teens got into several fights, prompting chaos. Police first began responding to reports of “disturbances” at 7pm ET on Saturday. But the officers assigned to the mall could not cope with the load. Read More »