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The Weekly Skinny: All the healthy news you need (11-20-09)

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Ever feel like you're hooked on chips or candy? New research shows junk food can be as addictive as drugs. FatFighterTV has a look at this story and other diet and fitness headlines making news this week.

The Marshmallow Test: What Does it Say About Your Child's Future?

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A simple test involving a small room, a marshmallow, and a salivating four-year-old tells us a lot about what kids will achieve later in life.

The original "marshmallow test" was conducted at Stanford in the late 1960s by a researcher named…

The Weekly Skinny: All the healthy news you need (9-18-09)

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You know it can be hard to say 'no' to ice cream sometimes. But does the frozen treat actually control your brain? FatFighterTV has a look at this story and other diet and fitness headlines making news this week.

5 Simple ways to protect your brain

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If you recently turned a landmark age and immediately forgot your PIN number, don’t panic—you can counteract age-related changes in the brain (which begin at about age 30) with a surprisingly simple regimen of activities guaranteed to nurture and fortify your mental muscle. Here are five easy ways to keep your brain quick and sharp, so you never draw a blank at the ATM again.

The body-mind connection broadens: Study says obese people lose lots of brain tissue

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The health complications associated with obesity, among them an increased risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, may now include what scientists are calling "severe brain degeneration." In a new study out of UCLA, obese and overweight people were shown to have significantly less brain tissue than people classified as being a normal weight.