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Rigorous, controlled study of hundreds of volunteers has revealed a dramatic trend toward nothing that will make you take better care of yourself, or alter your behavior in a meaningful sense, thus leading us to conclude were all wasting our time here, said study author Dr. Janice Carlisle, who added that 85 percent of Americans probably tuned out the second they heard the word study anyway, because isnt that just how people fucking are.
Well-established scientific facts about long-term health meant nothing to you last year, and theyll mean nothing to you this year or any year after until you die, so forget it. Just do what you want. Carlisle added that the new research might also help explain the role a sedentary lifestyle plays inlook, no one has even read past the first sentence of this news story, so theres really no reason to go into it, now is there?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-study-finds-nothing-that-will-actually-convinc,32259/
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)even if you can't?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)That I thought "maybe not" is telling, after working in and being around the healthcare world for around 25 years I have learned it is very difficult to change long term patterns for good.
I am a prime example of that, but I'm still working on that Sisyphean task.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)I remember catching my father smoking with an oxygen concentrator, mask on his face.
Mortified I reported it to the home health rep who was responsible for the machine.
She just laughed and said: "If I took every one of those away from a person who smoked while using it, I would have a warehouse full of unused machines."
So again, the humor is that it is true.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)He even sustained burns on his face from several small explosions while smoking w/oxygen. The only effect the burns had was to make his wrinkles go away, and make his skin smooth. He looked years younger than what he was. My great aunt - with a wonderful sense of humour and many wrinkles, said on my grandfather's 97th birthday, "Look at his face. It's like a baby's bum. Well, maybe he has found the cure for wrinkles - maybe I'm doing it all wrong - all this exercise and healthy eating...what I should've been doing all this time is putting on some oxygen and lighting up a cigarette and blowing up my face! Small price to pay for that skin, look at him!"
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)All good things I guess.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...or funny.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Happy memories!
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)small to large changes.
that's why modern attempts to target and penalize individual health behaviors are so stupid.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)I mean, hey, why should I bother telling people about how I learned how to stay 35 yrs old and live forever? They won't listen anyway, so fuck 'em, ya know?
Here. have a fatty 20 oz T-Bone, a coke, and a smoke.
Regular or menthol?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"real" news.