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Tuesday, May 17. 2011

Health?

15 Ten-Second Health Tips!  (including eggs and bacon for breakfast). h/t, Insty.


I am always amused by health advice because it so often turns out to be wrong, and because popular writing on health so consistently confuses correlation with causation. Nevertheless, I do take a daily Vit D as one of my compromises with magical thinking. Lipitor too, for the same reason.


What do you want to die from?

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:21 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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Old age but you knew that.
#1 Not your typical New Yorker on 2011-05-17 12:59 (Reply)
A bullet from an angry husband on my 100th birthday.
#2 RonF on 2011-05-17 13:42 (Reply)
What do I want to die from?

Boredom....when we no longer have an ego-centric President who keeps messing up; when the Europeans end their whining about America and begin to carry their own weight in world affairs; and when the Religion of Peace finally lives up to its own name.
#3 Agent Cooper on 2011-05-17 13:57 (Reply)
Agent Cooper, life amidst the Douglas Firs must agree with you.
#4 Sam L. on 2011-05-17 15:24 (Reply)
Right. A damn fine cup of coffee and you can't beat the cherry pie.
#4.1 Agent Cooper on 2011-05-17 19:49 (Reply)
Laughter, as the last communist chokes on a banana on the observation deck of one the rebuilt twin towers, and the last socialist running to help him slips on the peel, goes over the side and lands on the last Islamic terrorist, whose cover was being disguised as a street banana vendor.
#5 fiftyville on 2011-05-17 16:20 (Reply)
Death is certain and unless yall are pullin' a trigger on yerself yall got a choice.

One of me wives introduced me to a friend who tried the trigger option and failed.

No kiddin'.

He siad, "I decided to die. So I took fully loaded 45. stuck barrel in my mouth and pulled the trigger."

"The round blew a third of the back of my skull off and the doctors placed it back."

"Oh," said i, "and so, yall tried to blow yall's brains out."

"Yes" he replied, "but I missed."

Me says, "More likely yall proved yall didn't have any brains."

Collen has some peculiar friends.

Death ain't a choice, yanks.
#6 Leag on 2011-05-17 16:35 (Reply)
There you go again, Leag.

Just when I was tryin' to give yall a chance...
#6.1 Big___Al on 2011-05-17 21:48 (Reply)
But Big___Al, death is all about chance.

I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.
Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12.
#6.1.1 Leag on 2011-05-18 12:54 (Reply)
Please reconsider Lipitor and all statin drugs. They are potentially harmful and, as the Lipitor commercial itself says in fine print, there is no evidence that Lipitor prevents or treats coronary artery disease.

Everyone needs to think critically about the lipid hypothesis of obesity and heart disease. It's full of holes. Cholesterol and animal fat are not villains.

Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, and The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov are good starts
#7 BG on 2011-05-18 16:13 (Reply)

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