"This observational study is interesting, but it does not show supplement use causes women to die earlier." —Dr Glenys Jones, of Cambridge's Medical Research Council’s Human Nutrition Research unit, addresses a new study which shows that the use of supplements causes women to die earlier. Also today in "why bother": running makes you fat.
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My friend Josh and I have a Friday tradition. At the end of each workweek, one of us contacts the other with an e-mail titled “Plans,” a self-explanatory note in which we describe the various events of the days ahead. Sometimes these e-mails come through early in the morning before I even get to my office. Sometimes they slip in just before midnight. But for the past few years, we’ve been pretty diligent about our routine, detailing everything from “finish book” to “clean my apt because it is a disaster after my party last night.”
This weekend my e-mail will lay out the itinerary for my parents’ trip to [...]
Dear Prospect Park runner:
You've asked the smokers along your running route to "abide by the unwritten rules of smoking appropriateness and do not harsh the mellow of my running space with nicotine clouds." In return for this favor, you will "suspend the overly-theatrical waving away of your smoke clouds and the pulling of my shirt over my head to block the polluted air when you walk past." Well, as gracious as that offer is, the smoking population of this city would rather you not suspend these flailing motions of yours. We find those quite humorous!
