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So...you know how America is sort of a scam to make us all poor and fat? There were two stories in the New York Times on Sunday about this subject. The first is about the meat industry. Yeah, meat is great, I am not going to act like it's a handbag or some shit because it can really add to a wine-drinking experience, but the fact that it costs eight or nine calories of grain to produce every calorie of beef is not only a huuuuge drain on the food supply, it is, like most expensive habits, destroying the planet — a 20% reduction in American meat consumption would save as much energy as forcing us all to buy Priuses. Okay, now to the pharmaceutical industry: For a long time the pharmaceutical industry has been in bed with the beef industry, because cows are big consumers of antibiotics — the antibiotics make them fatter and more meaty, which is actually good for the cost of food but not for the efficacy of our antibiotics, though that's another story. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349894&view=rss&microfeed=true More women under the age of 45 are dying from heart disease, a new study shows. Many of the deaths are due to coronary heart disease, "in which fat and plaque clog the arteries feeding blood to the heart, sometimes called hardening of the arteries. Heart attacks are a common result." Doctors believe the sharp increase in heart disease is caused in part by obesity and high cholesterol. Please, ladies: This holiday season, let's all lay off the buttered mashed potatoes and apple pie and do our tickers a favor? [ABC News] More »
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