Your Health This (Superficial) Week

What does it take to make food taste good? McDonald’s printed paper, of course. In a study of 63 children aged three to five, Stanford researchers found that kids said chicken nuggets, burgers, fries, carrots and milk tasted better when wrapped in McDonald’s packaging compared to identical food in similar, but unbranded, bags and paper.

Women who get breast implants are three times more likely to commit suicide, reports one study that tracked women for 19 years of follow up. Insert appropriate can’t buy happiness/real beauty is on the inside aphorism.

Race might only be skin deep, but when it comes to doling out the death penalty, it goes much further. A recent study of 1,560 people sentenced to death from 1973 to 2000 found that blacks who kill white people are the most likely to have their sentence actually carried out, instead of overturned on appeal.

Cancer drug Rituximab is now a deadly skin-lesion auto-immune disease fighter too! Pharma giant Roche must be so pleased. 

Using DVDs to smarten up babies might actually make them dumber. I mean shocking. Really. Shocking. Because I totally thought that staring at stuff was better than interacting with other humans, hearing them speak, and trying to talk back.

It seems that women, er, really DO like muscled men – at least for flings ‘n’ stuff. One study of UCLA undergraduates found that the burly blokes were more likely to have three or more sexual partners and were twice as likely to have had flings and one night stands. Amen.

Alarmed by your unsightly sweating? Well now doctors can literally SUCK YOUR SWEAT GLANDS OUT. Like with a needle. Just like liposuction. Ew.