WEIRD STUFF: Man feeds on brains and testicles

Man feeds on brains and testicles

A man who follows a raw meat diet says that brains are his favourite food.

Weam Brieche, a Los Angeles-based bodybuilder, said that his hulking physique is to due to him consuming a daily diet of veal brains and testicles.

Brieche turned to the extreme diet after plant-based food left him with health issues and is now capable of eating five raw organs in one sitting.

Brieche will tuck into veal brain, lamb liver and beef heart during the day and has suffered no ill effects from his unique meal choices.

He told LADbible: "I first made the switch to cooked carnivore after my doctor informed me that I had a lot of inflammation in my digestive and nervous system.

"As I adopted this diet, I started reading books about the benefits of meat and a lot of carnivore doctors eat their meat raw -- so I decided to go for it.

"My favourite raw food is my concoction (in the morning) and veal brains. I also like raw rib-eyes and fillets."

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Humans started communicating using grunts

Humans began communicating with each other through hand gestures, a new study has concluded.

Researchers from the University of Western Australia asked volunteers to attempt to describe words using gestures or grunts and found that gestures are far more effective in communicating meaning -- suggesting that actions are the root of human communication.

The experts said: "The universality of gesture means it is ideally suited to bootstrapping human communication among modern humans and, therefore, supports the hypothesis that gesture is the primary modality for language creation."

The boffins explained that gestures can be used by all humans and rubbished the theory that our ancient ancestors communicated through grunting.

They said: "People of all cultures gesture while they speak, blind people gesture, and hearing adults and children can successfully use gesture as their sole means of communication at the request of experimenters.

"The ubiquity of gesture, and its capacity to rapidly evolve into language, has led to the proposal that language originated in manual gestures rather than in vocal calls."

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Cigarettes sale banned to young people

Denmark is planning to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2010.

Health Minister Magnus Heunicke says that the policy change will prevent the next generation from smoking any kind of tobacco.

He said: "Our hope is that all people born in 2010 and later will never start smoking or using nicotine-based products.

"If necessary, we are ready to ban sales to this generation by gradually raising the purchase age limit."

Under current Danish law, people under the age of 18 are banned from buying tobacco and electronic cigarettes but 31 per cent of those aged between 15 and 29 in the country are smokers.

Heunicke says that smoking is the leading cause of cancer in the country - accounting for more than 13,000 deaths every year.

The Danes look set to follow New Zealand, which will outlaw buying cigarettes for anyone born after 2008 later this year.