- Losing weight can be hard, there’s no doubt about it. While poor diet and lack of exercise are often the primary culprits in weight gain, recent research shows that eating a late dinner may also be to blame. The study (in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism) finds that people who eat a late dinner burn less fat overnight. They also have higher blood sugar levels than those who eat dinner earlier. Results show that fat burning is reduced by 10 percent and peak blood sugar levels are almost 20 percent higher in late dinner eaters compared to early dinner eaters. They also found that these effects are most pronounced in people who regularly go to bed earlier.

- It’s been a rough year for the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. The unsurprising conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14 percent of American adults say they’re very happy, down from 31 percent who said the same in 2018. That year, 23 percent said they’d often or sometimes felt isolated in recent weeks. Now, 50 percent say that.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BLIND MAN HAS HIS DAUGHTER DRIVE _ In Argentina police stopped a man and his daughter because he was driving erratically. Imagine their surprise when they realized the dad was blind. He was driving through town with the help of his 13-year-old daughter. Police say that she turned the steering wheel while he changed gears, accelerated and braked according to her instructions.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN FINED FOR FARTING ‘WITH FULL INTENT’ AT POLICE _ A man in Vienna, Austria, has been fined $565 for breaking wind loudly in front of police. Police said the man had behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers that preceded the farting incident. Cops say he got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent. And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: CAT CALLS 911 _ Police in New Zealand broke down the door to a home after receiving an emergency call from the building, only to find that the call had apparently been made by the cat. It seems the cat had dialed the emergency number while taking a stroll across a telephone attached to a fax/copy machine in the house. The family was out at the time.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: ROBBER TRIES VARIOUS METHODS _ In Spain a guy tried to rob a small grocery store with his mom’s cane — after taking it from her. The guy was at the counter asking for money. He used the old finger-in-the-jacket trick to make it look like he had a gun. But the clerk wasn’t buying it. Just then the man’s grandmother walked up to check out so the robber grabbed his granny’s cane and threatened the clerk with it. The clerk thought the situation was so funny she laughed until both the grandmother and her grandson walked out.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: CLAIM: ‘HUMAN BONE’ ON MARS _ A bizarre snapshot of the surface of Mars has recently resurfaced along with the conspiracy theory that it shows a human bone. Some people think they can see a femur in rubble on the Red Planet but this theory was debunked by NASA long ago. The photo was actually taken back in 2014 by the Curiosity Rover’s MastCam. It’s still used by conspiracy theorists to claim that there was once human life on Mars.

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If you’re looking to take the edge off after work and plan to do it with an adult beverage, I have some good news: scientists say that alcohol goes to your head in just six minutes. The not-so-good news is, of course, drinking too much too quickly means you’re drunk. Put down just three glasses of beer or two glasses of wine after work and you’re close to drunksville.

WHAT TURNS A WOMAN ON

Turning a woman on is complicated, like mixing the perfect martini. Fear not, though. Here are the ten basic ingredients (from MSN.com):

1. Intelligence
2. Sense of humor
3. Passion
4. Consideration
5. Honesty
6. Flexibility
7. Serenity There’s something alluring about a man with a positive outlook on life.
8. Balance. All work and no play make Johnny a lonely boy.
9. Ambition
10. Attentiveness

TRAITS THAT RATE WITH MEN

Woman’s Own magazine asked guys to rate the qualities they admire most in a woman. Here’s the consensus from most important to least.

1. Personality
2. Brains
3. Beauty
4. Sense of humor
5. Attitude
6. Body
7. Drive

WHAT WE WANT THAT MONEY CAN’T BUY

Although a whopping 84 percent of the adults said they think Americans worship money, here’s what we want that money can’t buy.

1. Happiness
2. Freedom
3. Love
4. Peace, tranquility, and economic and social justice for all
5. Clean water, fresh air, and an unobstructed horizon
6. Time to do the things we really want to do: Prayer, family, reading, gardening, and all the things that make life joyful
7. Rekindle a long-lost friendship
8. A world where children can grow up feeling safe
9. The courage to say what I feel and what needs to be said
10. Peace of mind
11. To be surrounded by family and friends

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