to the tanning beds!

cleveland amory may have been wrong when he said, "i can't take a well-tanned person seriously." bronzed may actually mean brainy – or, more exactly, the pallid may be at a slight disadvantage.

ohio state just released research indicating that our brains may shrink in the absence of sunlight. the report speculates that the loss occurs not in the areas receiving and processing visual information, but in those involved in learning and memory (in the hippocampus).

this may partially explain why many people get blue in the winter. interestingly enough, melatonin, produced in the hippocampus, has been previously linked to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the ailment causing depression during winter months.

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