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bronchitikat

Friday

Oct 06, 2006 08:29

TGIF

I have had all these thoughts for a blog, witty thoughts, relevant thoughts, thought-provoking thoughts even - though regular Readers might expect the last, but this morning the old grey matter is just that - grey! *Apologises*

First, a Health Warning - If you drink lots of Cola drinks, and are female, you could end up with ( Read more... )

cola & osteoporosis, ig nobel prizes

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meghanrox956 October 6 2006, 12:40:49 UTC

well 4 cans a week sure doesnt seem like a lot! i prefer non-cola soda myself, though...

"Stick to tea, Dear Readers"... what are you, british or something? ^_^

"Am I a Brit?" She asks! bronchitikat October 7 2006, 08:10:14 UTC

Have provided links to articles extolling the virtues of tea above even water as a beneficial drink in the past month. So it's not just national preference!

Re: "Am I a Brit?" She asks! meghanrox956 October 7 2006, 08:12:36 UTC

oh I know! ive read...

its just so funny that u fit the british sterotype so well! (well that one ne way...)

Re: "Am I a Brit?" She asks! bronchitikat October 7 2006, 08:19:06 UTC

Hence the response of the Great British Public to 7/7 & 21/7 - bring out cups of tea, blankets, chocolate cake even - to those coming up from the bombed Underground trains, or the bus in Tavistock Sq.

That & the general reaction of, "We've been bombed by a better class of bastard than you" & most people returning to work the following day, or the day after (that wasn't the wounded BTW)

4 cokes a week? annelaure October 6 2006, 16:36:41 UTC

woops.. probably been doing that several times!!!

spozgar October 6 2006, 20:29:15 UTC

*Pops up like a spam email* :D osteoporosis, man.

Sorry, couldn't help it: according to almost about every health magazine my bf reads in the toilet ( and sorry for too much information :)), everything will make you end up with osteoporosis if you're a female:

*If you don't eat enough cheese and are a female, you know what will happen.
*If you don't start eating tofu and are a female, you know what will happen.
*If you don't walk an hour three times a week and are a female, you know what will happen.
*If you don't check your calcium level routinely and are a female, you know what will happen.
*If you didn't switch to soy milk like, yesterday, you know what will happen.
...

May be we should just accept it like a fact, that we will end up with osteoporosis if we're females :)? I personally drink about five Cola drinks a day, then according to that study I've pretty much finished the Cola drinks amount of 100 years for three people at least - O.M.G.

One might conclude that before tofu, soy and cheese were invented, and before calcium ( ... )

bronchitikat October 7 2006, 08:08:26 UTC

"One might conclude that before tofu, soy and cheese were invented, and before calcium was known, 100% of females were ending up with osteoporosis "

One might indeed. Though cheese, & tofu, have been around for almost as long. &, as you so rightly pointed out, there are things we can do to improve matters.

Mind you, if you go back about 100 years, or maybe 150, most women died from childbearing and childbirth related complications (first major cause of female mortality). The second cause was fire - because women did the cooking &, until the cooking 'range' was invented, it was done over open fires - and they all wore long skirts.

spozgar October 7 2006, 12:34:54 UTC

You mean, the majority of them were not making it to the "osteoporosis age". I think may be with all the physical activity ( sell the car - here you've got it) they were in a way better shape despite the great amount of kids ( which does ruin the system) and thus did not have all the diseases a modern age has created with it's devices that are supposed to improve the quality of our lives. Take a TV for example. How does it benefit us? Another kind of entertainment, another way to transmit an information, including the news - and it all is great, but given a TV the absolute majority of a my generation prefers watching to reading: and no, there's no information there one cannot read in a book/newspaper/etc. Why not though? Because on the other hand, it means sitting on one's ass and eating fast food ( we cannot cook while our favorite show's on, can we). That's your osteoporosis, not the amount of Cola drinks, I think. They were may be dying in childbearing, but they were waking up at 5am and working the field, etc - which is a physical ( ... )

spozgar October 7 2006, 12:38:59 UTC

Just because I'm sick of all the porn to this point, of all the casual sex promoting movies, etc - sorry for the rant. That has nothing to do with anything, it's just that my boyfriend was watching the Basic Instinct thing earlier. What the Hell was that?? Ahh never mind :(.

papertowlbtrfly October 8 2006, 23:13:55 UTC

I had no idea that ever even happened. It's kinda interesting to read about early "colors" though. Many school's malls etc. have outright banned them over here too, which is where the whole "throwing signs " thing came from. It's just kinda strange to read about it so far back though in a "it's all been done" sense.