Yay!

[vulgarweed]

A collection of health-study links that makes ME happy for a change (I usually hate it when people forward me these fucking things. Nice to have some countershots):

How Spicy Foods Can Kill Cancers

Curry Spice May Counter Alzheimer's

So might red wine.

Women who drink lots of coffee are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than anyone

Comments

[dreya_uberwald]

Women who drink lots of coffee are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than anyone else.

*Cheers* I may occasionally skirt the boundaries knurdity, but at least now I know that it might just help to protect me from senile dementia :D

[vulgarweed]

We get toughened up in advance by the youthful dementia.

[celandineb]

Wow... it's almost as if Sleeper were becoming reality. When they tell me that bacon is good for me, I'll know the end of the world is nigh, though. *g*

[vulgarweed]

Heee! Ya know, I bet bacon IS good for you. Somehow. We just don't know it yet.

I'm just happy, 'cause this covers three of my four basic food groups. (The fourth, nicotine, also has some studies suggesting it has some anti-Alzheimer's and Parkinson's properties, but I didn't want to start a flame war. Or a smoke war.)

[celandineb]

Heh, at this point I'm glad I quit smoking just because of the ever-increasing cost and ever-decreasing number of places it's allowed. [Well, and there's the fact that my SO has never smoked and dislikes it, which is an incentive not to start again.]

[vulgarweed]

Someday, someday, I will join the ranks of the ex-smokers. Preferably as in people who quit, not as in "ex-parrot." The ever-increasing cost is actually weighing on me far more heavily than health worries - that's probably what'll drive me to it, if anything does. Alas, my SO is a fellow air-polluter. (I haven't been seriously involved with a non-smoker since one guy back in college, come to think of it!)

[quantum_witch]

I was going to mention smoking, but you beat me to it. At least you've switched to natural tobacco. Much easier on my lungs when I'm around. It doesn't make me hack or wheeze, my eyes haven't swelled, and I haven't broken into a rash. (Yes, I've gotten hives when in a roomful of the average cigarette smoke.)

[megpie71]

The two about spicy food appear to offer much hope for my family (my mother and I being avid curry fiends and fond of spicy dishes) - turmeric and chilli being two of the spices regularly included in most curry powders and curry pastes. Now, I shall have to look around for evidence that cumin, fenugreek, ginger, coriander seed, and mustard are good for the health, so I can justify curry every night!

Of course, given three out of four of my grandparents lived past ninety (and one of those three is still going strong at about ninety-four) I'm not really in a position to need my longevity prospects increased by too much...

[shadowvalkyrie]

This is BAD for me, because I neither like red wine nor coffee and while I occasionally like spicy foods my tolerance for them isn't very high and I usually only eat everything salted and with garlic and nothing else.
":-(

Well, on second thought, I'm not likely to get very old, anyway, and eating more unhealthily than I do now is hardly possible, so coffee or no coffee won't make much difference.
";-)