June 19, 2012

There’s more evidence that Mom was right about breakfast being the most important meal of the day. A new long-term study found that people who ate a daily breakfast were less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes or become obese, as compared to those who rarely ate breakfast. The type of breakfast didn’t matter either, as long as people didn’t skip the meal. Source Link

Is your email in-box the high-tech equivalent of the old-fashioned gossip grapevine? A new study claims that 15% of work email could be classified as office scuttlebutt.  Researchers looked at hundreds of thousands of emails from the former Enron Corporation and found office gossip in messages from all levels of the corporate ladder. Source Link

Scientists are again warning that rapid melting of the Artic ice is setting the stage for more wild winter weather, both good and bad. They say the past winter with its lack of cold and snow in the continental U.S. was just the opposite in Europe and Alaska, with record snowfall and low temperatures, and is just as likely as another mild winter. Source Link