DIETITIANS won't be pleased, but a Japanese scientist from Tokyo's Kyorin University has concluded that ice cream for breakfast improves people's alertness and mental capacity.
Professor Yoshihiko Koga conducted the study by getting one group of subjects to eat ice cream each morning, and another to have a normal breakfast before completing a series of mental exercises on a computer.
Those with the sweet ice treat in their system proved better at processing new information and had faster reaction times.
The ice cream seemed to make the subjects' brains fire off a higher amount of high-frequency alpha-waves.
SOUTH Korea's President has defended an office purchase of more than 360 Viagra pills.
President Park Geun-hye's office said the pills were purchased to treat altitude sickness for employees on trips to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.
Seems legitimate, why not purchase erectile dysfunction drugs instead of actual altitude sickness ones?
In another bizarre twist the office has also been caught buying a injection drugs used for fatigue and anti-ageing treatment.
Park's office said the treatments were for the entire staff - what a workplace!
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