The German Institute for Food Research in Potsdam near Berlin announced it has located a gene that makes some people hate cabbage and spinach, and discovered that the same gene often protects people from obesity. People with the gene are sensitive to the taste of phenylthiocarbamid (PTC) and propylthiouracil (PROP). People who cannot taste PTC and PROP tended to eat fattier foods and become overweight.

About 30 percent of couples in the Philippines are not aware that having sex can result in babies. Health workers discovered a general lack of knowledge about sex during a door-to-door campaign to promote family planning.