British researchers said they were stunned to discover that people get more of a buzz from eating chocolate than passionately kissing their lovers.

英国研究人员称，他们惊讶的发现吃巧克力比热烈的亲吻更能让人兴奋。

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It's exhausting, time consuming and although it counts as physical activity, housework does not improve health or help to shed those excess pounds, British researchers said.

英国研究者说，家务劳动既费时又累人，虽然也算是身体运动，却既无益于健康也无助于减除赘肉。

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Scientists who have won a Nobel Prize live nearly two years longer than those who were merely nominated, suggesting that social status confers "health-giving magic, " British researchers said.

英国研究者日前公布，“诺贝尔奖”得主要比那些仅获提名的科学家寿命长将近两年，这表明社会地位能为健康“带来魔力”。

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Writing in Thorax, the journal of the British Thoracic Society (BTS), the researchers said doctors in London should be particularly aware of the risk that patients with either TB or HIV may also have the other condition.

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Researchers from Warwick University, writing in the British Journal of Psychology, said that dogs gave people a safe topic of conversation with which to break the ice with a stranger.

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Researchers addressing the British Association's science festival in Leicester last month said a new directive from Brussels could lead to radical changes in the way agricultural land was managed across Europe, with some types of farming being scaled back or even abandoned in some of their traditional areas.

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