PARIS, France (AFP) — Still looking for the secret to effortless weight loss? It may be as simple as chewing gum while walking, Japanese researchers suggested on Saturday, May 26. In experiments, they said, the heart rate of 46 people, aged 21 to 69, increased when they were given gum to chew while walking at a natural pace. And while masticating caused a measurable physical difference in participants of both genders and across all age […]
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Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dies at 82
by Margaret DONALDSON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17 — his third space flight and the last scheduled US manned mission to the moon — in December 1972. “We are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the last […]





