The strange reason diet soda makes you fat
Want one reason for your beer belly? How about 100 quintillion? That's about how many bacteria live in your gut. And scientists now believe these bacteria can have a significant impact on your weight.
Consuming high amounts of fructose (a type of sugar), artificial sweeteners, and sugar alcohols (another type of low-calorie sweetener) cause your gut bacteria to adapt in a way that interferes with your satiety signals and metabolism, according to a new paper in Obesity Reviews. (If you've noticed you've been feeling tired all the time and gaining weight, your metabolism may be slowing.)
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Reported UFO sightings happen far more than voter fraud, Mother Jones reports.
Republicans legislatures are quick to legislate against supposedly rampant voter fraud, but a new report finds that UFO sightings are far more likely than actual voter fraud. 3,615 times more likely, to be exact. "Voter laws are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist,” PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton said on Thursday. |  |
Life 'not as we know it' revealed
Even Dr Who might be taken aback at the sight of these aliens.
The bizarre jellyfish-like beings were dreamed up by a British scientist as an example of life "not as we know it". This is what evolution might have come up with on a world such as Saturn's moon Titan, Dr Maggie Alderin-Pocock believes. She envisages creatures that float through clouds of methane, scooping chemical nutrients into their gaping mouths. |  |