Stories by Sophie Morris

Dieting Makes You Fat

Starving yourself sends your body into famine survival mode, causing you to store extra fat.
Posted on Jul 20, 2008

Can You Get by on Just 5 Gallons of Water a Day?

A British woman attempts for a day what most in the developing world deal with all the time -- living on just over 5 gallons of water.
Posted on Apr 28, 2008

The Great Carbon Con: Can Offsetting Really Help Save the Planet?

Celebrities and politicians are falling over each other to advocate plant-a-tree conservationism as a salve to global warming.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008

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