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Genes, sweets, smoking, and fear [May. 11th, 2008|11:31 pm]
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Mice desire sweets even when they lack the genes to taste them. It may help to explain the correlation between artificial sweeteners and weight gain (though you'll still have to pry my diet coke from my cold, dead hand).

There are also recently discovered genetic correlations that predispose you to lung cancer and fear.
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[User Picture]From: [info]notagordianknot
2008-05-12 03:49 pm (UTC)

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Interesting. I don't want to give up my Diet Coke, but I'll have to look at the correlation between diet soda and weight gain in our data.