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• Overeaters and Drug Abusers Share Addictive Brain Chemistry Research supports idea that overeating can, in extreme cases, be considered an addiction comparable to drug abuse or gambling.
• Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life Murals uncovered in ancient Mayan mound give rare glimpse at everyday life.
  
• Black Holes: Powerhouses of the Universe Black holes — extremely dense masses jammed into single points of space — pack quite an energy punch, releasing some of the most powerful radiation in the universe.

• Low-Fat Diet Keeps You Happy Longer Want to lose weight? Try a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. Or, try a conventional high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. Both work fine. In fact, according to research conducted at the Commonwealth Scienti...
• Breathing Technique Relieves Asthma Without Steroids In addition to being very hard to spell, asthma can be very hard to live with, particularly if one's life involves lots of athletic activity.
  
• Leaf Raking Is Really Cross Training, Kind Of If it takes some slight exaggeration to get the leaves up and out, is it really a such bad thing? And leaf raking, after all, is excellent training for at least one thing: more leaf raking.
• Yoga Relieves Lower Back Pain We already know what doesn't work for lower back pain. Here's something that does: yoga.
  
• Vitamin D Can Make You Smarter, And Other Things Vitamin D apparently stands for Definitely good for something, but what exactly? In recent years, the long neglected vitamin has ascended from useless to use-it-to-improve-every organ, and now this ...