Working Nights

Dracula?  Dead man walking.

It is not good to work nights, it makes you prone to so many diseases I can't even list them here without feeling mildly exhausted myself. 

Sleeping is a Good Thing humans, remember that.

Source:  Guardian

Low Fat Milk Makes You Fat (Obviously)

This will not come as a major surprise to those of us who have read countless similar articles about low fat soda.  Basically, the type of doctors who engage in these sorts of studies have found that kids who drink skimmed milk grow up chubbier than kids that stick to the full fat version.  Which isn't particularly fatty in the first place as it happens.  

Beer = Heart Medicine

I always like the ones where they point out the good in something that probably would only be obtainable on street corners had it been invented 10 years ago.  So yes, beer is good (again).   

This week.

The Greeks have come to this conclusion, Greeks at Harokopio University in Athens to be precise.  Conclusion being that beer is good for your blood vessels and can prevent heart disease.  Well, one beer can.  Far be it from my to cast aspersions on a study which espouses the benefits of alcohol, but to my untrained eye the sample size of 17 people seems a little on the low side.   Surely they could have wandered the streets of Athens and picked up a few more volunteers to drink some free beer?

But hey, let's go with it.  Beer is good for you!


Daily Mail

Smoking Cigarettes: Good (!?)

Researchers at the University of Florida have come up with a surprising Good News story for smokers.  Smoking cigarettes improves self-control, they have decided.   The people they tested were all smokers, of course, so perhaps this story is not quite as positive as it may seem.  People who really, really like cigarettes and who feel a little stressed after prolonged periods of no cigarettes, are then seen to demonstrate improved self-control after smoking a cigarette.

Nice try University of Florida, but back to the drawing board please.

Source:  Times of India

LSD Helps Alcoholism

Of course it does.  It's the perfect solution!  It's the good folks at Harvard who have come up with this little beauty, based on previous studies carried out in the (*sigh*) sixties and seventies, would you believe.  Should I even keep going with this?  Ridiculous...  Anyway, patients were fed LSD and allegedly began to confront their problems in a clear-eyed and realistic way, and...  look this method isn't going to catch on, is it.

Back to the drawing board Harvard chaps.

Source:  Independent (UK)