That muffin top can increase the likelihood for 6 types of cancer and other frights around the skinny-sphere

• According to a study by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund that muffin top increases your likelihood for 6 types of cancer: the esophagus, pancreas, colon and rectum, endometrium and kidney, along with breast cancer in post-menopausal women. The belly fat affects levels of hormones and growth factors, which can influence the development of cancer cells. Yikes! Yet more incentive to hit that weight loss trifecta: food, exercise, & your emotions to shed the muffin top. [LA Times]

• Let's hear it for crazy mice experiments. A lab coat at the Center for Biotechnology at the State University of NY put some mice on a buzzing platform for 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, and Hoila! the mice have 27% less fat and more bone than mice who didn't do any platform shaking. Lab coat said. “I sit here and say, ‘This can’t possibly be happening.’ I feel like the credibility of my scientific career is sitting on a razor’s edge between ‘Wow, this is really cool,’ and ‘These people are nuts.’”...So, I vote for "Emancipate the mice." Can't you already see the infomercial for human weight loss on late night TV? [NYTimes]

• Sorry, I don't buy that Lance Armstrong and twinster Ashley Olsen are canoodling. I'll buy it, maybe, when there is photographic proof and official statements from their camps of their "friendship, and "mutual admiration of each other." Can you tell that I read too many press releases. [NY Post]

• Apparently, there's enough men that can't keep their groping hands off women in a packed Seoul Korea subway train that there will be women-only cars starting in 2008. Half of the subway crimes reported are sexual in nature and happen most near the university and the business district. There are some women only trains in Tokyo Japan for the very same reason. What a sad state of affairs. [Yahoo]