Here’s this week’s compendium. This week…
1. Greenpeace Australia published a helpful analysis of the sustainability of various canned tuna brands [1]. Unless buyers take note, in a few years there’ll be no tuna for anyone to eat.
2. Nutrition Diva wrote that healthy people can eat up to two whole eggs a day without any negative effect on their cholesterol levels or heart disease risk [2]. It’s amazing how the previous medical advice – to the contrary – could have been so wrong.
3. the BMJ reported that sexual activity, quality of sexual life, and interest in sex were positively associated with health in middle age and later life [3]. It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. Do healthier people have more and better sex, or does sex make people healthier?
4. JournalWATCH reported that long-term mortality among live kidney donors was similar to that in healthy controls [4] There was a increase in post-operative mortality among the donors. But it was tiny.
5. Sweetheart Vivienne alerted me to a NYT article concluding PSA (i.e. prostate specific antigen) testing’s useless to detect prostate cancer [5]. Hmmm. Interesting. I’ll ponder it for a while, I think.
6. using six criteria, Greenopia rated BP the greenest oil company [6]. Not many of the companies listed operate in Australia. Anyway BP’s the best of them. Shell was fourth.
7. the Herald-Sun reported that Australian F1 Grand Prix organisers lied by saying the 2009 event’s twilight timing produced a massive increase in TV watchers [7]. Question: How do you know when a GP organiser lies? Answer: When he speaks.
8. indeed today, is darling Emily's birthday [8]. I love her more today than I did on her previous birthday. Much more.
Finally, I wish you, dear Farmdoc’s Blog readers, a wonderful week.
2 comments:
Happy hapy birthday dear Emmy Anne. I feel so fortunate to be part of your life. I'm grateful always for your loving generosity and I hope that next year will be even happier for you than this year has been.
Bad news about tuna, I love it but will try to hold back, will anyone else? Excellent news about eggs, which I had been down to one or two a week, so I replace tuna sandwiches with egg, sounds good.
Later life sex I think does depend on reasonable health, but mostly our state of mind. I think it seems to require less abandonment and more concentration!
Happy birthday to Emily, our older grand-daughter Emily lives with us while she goes to University she come from a small city 750kms. north of Winnipeg.
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