Speaking English Kills You
- The Italians drink red wine every day and also consume a lot of oily foods and carbohydrates, but suffer fewer heart attacks than the English or Americans.
- The French drink huge amounts of red wine and eat lots of rich fatty foods but also suffer fewer heart attacks than the English or Americans.
- The Spanish and Portuguese drink lots of cheap red wine and eat spicy, salty and fatty foods but still suffer fewer heart attacks than the English or Americans.
- The Japanese drink whisky, eat little fat - except for endangered whale fat - smoke like trains, work with frantic levels of stress and (yes, you have guessed it) still suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans or the English.
- The Chinese also smoke like crazy, drink little red wine, eat lots of fatty fried pork and duck, live in intolerably overcrowded cities, and even they have fewer heart attacks than the English or Americans.
Conclusion Eat what you like; it is speaking English that kills you!
http://www.robbins.gen.nz/quirky.htm
(One version was also found here:
http://www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1179748817156
on the website of the British High Comission!)