I like this one as well:


FIDGETING FIGHTS OBESITY

It may be irritating at the theatre, but natural fidgets are doing themselves a favour. U.S. researchers from the Mayo Clinic have found that people who always seem to be on the go are more likely to be slim - and may spend two more hours a day being active than their tubby friends.

The extra motion, whether it is tapping, twitching, stretching or yawning, accounts for an extra 350 calories a day, or between 10 to 30lb a year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210341/Being-bad-good-Playing-blaring-rock-music-skipping-housework-actually-boost-health.html#ixzz0Pz6hhkAI

Neil Todd, an expert in the scientific study of music, explains that the sacculus seems to be part of a primitive hearing mechanism that has slowly been lost as humans have evolved.

I am extremely skeptical whenever a scientist explains that a body part is vestigial. Just because you can't figure out what it does, doesn't mean it does nothing, or that damaging it now isn't going to have serious negative consequences down the road. For example, the appendix turns out to be a valuable breeding ground for friendly bacteria and white blood cells. The spleen turns out to be reservoir of monocytes, making it too a much more useful bugger than previously thought.

That said, maybe the sacculus is why the sound of the ocean makes me feel so good.

That's really interesting, I've always felt good when the music is cranked up. Didn't realize there was a link between the two, but who knows.

I wonder if this link still exists after people go def from listening to all that loud music.