>> May you live long and hungry. A new National Institutes of Health finds that for monkeys “on a reduced-calorie regimen for as long as 20 years,” the “risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and diabetes fell by more than two-thirds.”
Some docs say perma-diets work for people too. “In [Dr. Luigi Fontana] examinations of people who have been practicing caloric restriction for an average of 6 1/2 years, Fontana found their heart function was equivalent to those of people 16 years younger.”
>> May you marry long and suffer. In Salon’s Broadsheet, Amy Benfer takes down Caitlin Flanagan’s badly-researched cover story for Time magazine, which basically cherrypicks and misinterprets research to “prove” that marriage is so important to society and kids that people should stay married or remarry quickly without expecting anything so selfish and crass as, say, pleasure or happiness in their lives. Writes Amy:
While Flanagan points out that the dissolution of marriage is deemed so “catastrophic” to society that the last three presidents have embraced programs that, in one form or another, encourage families to stick together, we’d just like to throw it out there that two of those three presidents were themselves raised by single mothers.
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And ONE of those two single-mother-raised presidents had such serious self-esteem issues that he risked the office and his reputation in history for a blow-job.
(Not a cheap shot, I loved the guy and his Presidency, but that’s gonna be his legacy.)
Comment by Richard — July 11, 2009 @ 12:13 pm
I miss Clinton too sometimes — less now that Obama’s prez.
Comment by Siel — July 13, 2009 @ 5:45 pm