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Tuesday, October 9. 2007

Eat what you want

Don't let the food Nazis bother you. From Insty:

JOHN TIERNEY: Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus. "The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly. The evidence against Häagen-Dazs was nothing like the evidence against Marlboros."

Now finish all your ice cream like good boys and girls.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 15:22 | Comments (9) | Trackback (1)

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The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly, writes John Tierney [via Bird Dog at Maggie's Farm] in the NYT Science
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Not so fast boys and girls. We're still waiting to reach a mistaken consensus on the effects of consumption of sugar.
#1 Dr X (Link) on 2007-10-09 18:15 (Reply)
in that case, I am going to have the bowl of ice cream right after I finish my martini and cigarette. lol
#2 opie on 2007-10-09 19:14 (Reply)
I'm with you opie... who the hell wants to live forever. OTOH, if I could retain my twenty year old body and brain (true, wasn't much of one then, the brain) then I might be interested. Otherwise, living another 40 years as an eighty year old just doesn't sound all that enticing.

Pass the carton would you please.
#3 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-09 20:15 (Reply)
Luther, you couldn't anyway, you'd only be 80 for the first one, then the other 39 would take you on up to 120.
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-09 20:42 (Reply)
OTOH, Jack Benny was 39 for thirty years--

(does anybody remember Jack Benny?)
#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-09 22:54 (Reply)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vIa7GYstYOQ
#3.1.1.1 fred allen on 2007-10-09 23:04 (Reply)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3oYqNwjqCCs
#3.1.1.2 fred allen on 2007-10-09 23:17 (Reply)
yuk yuk --say goodnight, Gracie --
#3.1.1.2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-09 23:47 (Reply)
Goodnight.
#3.1.1.2.1.1 allen on 2007-10-10 00:31 (Reply)

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