Tuesday, September 20, 2011

New Research on How to Be Happier and Thinner

There are few urges harder to resist than hitting the snooze button (eating that huge chocolate cupcake up for grabs in the office kitchen comes to mind), but maybe this will help you: new research out of the UK found that people who get up early tend to be happier, less stressed, and have a lower chance of being overweight. Hmm, screw getting the worm; if the early bird gets flatter abs, maybe we'll consider it...

Researchers looked at over 1,000 subjects and categorized them into morning people or goddamn-morning-haters (actually, they used the phrase evening people). Morning people generally started their weekday around 7 am, and evening people got rolling closer to 8:55 am. Those in the latter group were more likely to suffer from depression and stress, and be overweight.

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