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February 28, 2006
Truth stranger than fiction?
The medical profession's take on nutrition in 2173, as portrayed in 1973's Sleeper.
Dr. Melik: [puzzling over list of items sold at Miles' old health-food store] ... wheat germ, organic honey and... tiger's milk.
Dr. Aragon: Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible!
Nutrition in 2006.
CHICAGO Feb 27, 2006 (AP)— Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.
And there's this.
Feb. 7, 2006 — The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease.
Waiter! Another bottle of chianti, your biggest sirloin, medium well, and save me a slice of the chocolate triple-layer cake.
Posted by Mike Lief at February 28, 2006 08:12 AM