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Seems Internet resources such as search engines could make you less likely to recall information. So says a new study, anyway, which sought to discover how likely people are to remember something if they knew they could also find it on a computer.

“Indoor tanning is out,” says the Canadian Dermatology Association, who’ve placed tanning beds squarely in their crosshairs with a new web PSA that shows young women singing their skin with a clothes iron, toaster and waffle iron. Ouch. The CDA hopes these exaggerated examples of frying one’s skin hammers home the dangers of tanning. According to their website:

Well, here’s a twist in the battle to curb childhood obesity. A new study has found that kids who eat candy tend to weigh less than children who don’t.

In a new interview with PEOPLE (via Billboard), Missy Elliott revealed she’s been battling Graves’ disease since 2008. Elliott says the disease, an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid, began to take its toll on her body rather quickly.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out eating potato chips will cause you to pack on the pounds. Or maybe it does.