still a lazy bum.After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on earth.

Blame it on your genes: a team of UC Riverside and University of Alberta labcoats pronounced recently that one’s desire to sweat away on a treadmill like a good little hamster isn’t just assimilated through society’s relentless fixation on body image, botox, and upholstered breasts. In actuality, it’s predetermined by — wait for it! — the length of one’s fingers.

The same study also cited prenatal stress — the stress that one suffers while still ensconced in mama’s comfy old womb — as a precursor to a burning furiosity of exercise mojo later on in life. We laughed, we cried, we furtively sneaked another cheeto puff.

Image Source: featherbrain under Creative Commons
Finger length linked to desire to exercise [UPI]



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