Random links
- Esquire: Your Pants are Lying to You
- "... many of America's biggest retailers are lying to consumers about waist sizes in order to make them feel thinner and more likely to buy their clothes."
- Can Basic Physical Tests Help Predict Death Risk?
- "... the death rate was 2.87 times higher for the slowest walkers than for the fastest walkers." The study appears to have considered both the old and the young. Am I set for a long life?
- U.S. Meat Farmers Brace for Limits on Antibiotics
- "Dispensing antibiotics to healthy animals is routine on the large, concentrated farms that now dominate American agriculture. But the practice is increasingly condemned by medical experts who say it contributes to a growing scourge of modern medicine: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ... Proponents of strong controls note that the European Union barred most nontreatment uses of antibiotics in 2006 and that farmers there have adapted without major costs." Of course, as the article also notes farm profits aren't exactly high in a lot of cases.
- Old age doesn't start at 65 - scientists
- "IIASA scientists developed new measures of aging that take changes in disability status and longevity into account, which could allow governments to reassess retirement ages and work out what health provisions would be needed." Translation: you'll probably need to stay in the workforce longer...
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Sarennah
Thu, 2010-09-16 20:28
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Sizes and Ages
Ages - France is trying to raise retirement age leading to massive protests in the country this fall. Other countries have done the same. It's still kind of depressing--like grasping for a straw that goes further away.
Sizes - It's really annoying when each store's sizes are different! I haven't noticed any blatant numbers that are wrong, but a small in some stores is definitely a large in others!