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What is it with this country and health scares? This week alone we've had..

Tuesday - Even one unit of alcohol a day significantly increases the risk of bowel cancer. ONE unit and that's it, you're a goner. Don't say you weren't warned.

Wednesday - Working in a office with laser printers is as bad as smoking. The minute particles in the toner can cause Lung cancer. In fact, you may as well just eat a cancer sandwich as print something.

Thursday (today) - Sun bathing in your lunch hour can lead to malignant melanomas, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. Best to stay in your office near the laser printer and get lung cancer instead.

I just can't wait for tomorrow..

well I'll be dead by the time I'm 30 then, going by those. All 3 apply to me

There are so many food scares that soon people will eat nothing.

stephenmagic wrote:There are so many food scares that soon people will eat nothing.

But if they miss one lunch they'll become anorexic, so then have to have an extra large dinner ( which is probably too high in salt ) and that will make them obese..

Oh I give up, I'm going for a nice cold beer, in the sun, and to hell with the consequences..

I'm not printing anything though, that'd just be crazy.

Ridiculous, isn't it? One unit a day would be far more healthy than what most people (and I include myself) do, which is nothing for most of the week, then 20 units on one or two nights!

They've got a reasonable point about the melanomas though. I know several people in their 50's who were respective babes/hunks because they went on lots of sunny holidays and welcomed the sunbed craze who have had a skin cancer scare or worse, I have a worrying feeling that as tanning becomes more and more popular we're suddenly going to hit melanoma city in around 20 years. I keep telling my girlfriend off for going on the sunbed.

But hey, I was crisping up with the best of them in Croatia a few weeks ago, so I'm hardly leading by example


What with carbon emissions, cancer scares, terrorist strikes etc. you can easily see how we're going to wind up in a few hundred years... living underground in identical carbonwise apartments, eating protein crackers, receiving a daily ration of specially formulated "safe sunlight", not allowed to travel anywhere else on the world for fear of terrorism... all "for our own good"

In answer to the post which started, "Can I just say..." No you can't which is why it and the following one was deleted. Remember there are youngsters and others here who may not appreciate the 'earthy' comments - no matter how accurate they may have been !

It's all b*llsh!t! The media feeds us processed garbage..so does the government! Rebel!

I go by, if you eat a variety of stuff, exercise reglarly, that can be walking the dog or whatever and don't drink too much or stay out i the sun too long your gonna live a great life!

I can remember when there was once a scare about Vitamin pils and older people will remember the great Cornbeef scare. Crazy World huh?

I was told that a glass of red wine each day is very good for you so imagine how much better a whole bottle would be. (At one glass a day I'm up to October 17th, (Edit: No, make that the 29th), 2032)

Mikey.666 wrote:I go by, if you eat a variety of stuff, exercise reglarly, that can be walking the dog or whatever and don't drink too much or stay out I the sun too long your gonna live a great life!

or just go down your local, buy a couple of pints, go to the newsagents next door, and buy a hench bar of chocolate (or two )

eat and drink in one night

And the life that you do lead, will be great

There's a whole host of professional research bodies and institutions that do continual work into what is or isn't good for you. These people are employed by the governemnt, and every so often they have to prove that the government is getting their money's worth from these people (usually around the time the reviews of their grants come up). So it is in the interests of these people to suddenly have their research in the news - and of course bad news sells better than good news. So they release a half-arsed report that concludes that eating peanuts (or whatever) is bad for you. It hits the headlines. The government goes "oh dear - that's terrible" and hands over another million quid to fund another five years research. Jobs a good 'un.

Except for the poor idiots who used to like eating peanuts but have now had the cr*p scared out of them and will never touch another peanut again for the rest of their life.

That's how it works. The research institutes like it because it guarantees their funding. The media like it because it sells newspapers and gets people tuning into the news. It's a self-serving beast that is really only interested in the acquiring of money. It has nothing to do with the health of joe public.

IMHO of course

My great grandfather had two mottoes for a long and healthy life: "All things in moderation" and "a little of what you fancy does you good". He lived to the ripe old age of 37.

Woo Hoo! None of the three!

Im a student (no laser printers) at a quaker school (no alcohol) and due to my nerdiness, i spend all lunchtimes avoiding the sunlight to the full extent it can be avoided.

Mind you, I am 15 stone with just as many years, so theres one downside. Ah well. Does my lack of the above three make up for it?

My Grandad always used to say 'live every day as if it's your last'

Consequently, he spent 40 years of his life on a ventilator refusing food and weeing himself.

Mandrake wrote:In answer to the post which started, "Can I just say..." No you can't which is why it and the following one was deleted. Remember there are youngsters and others here who may not appreciate the 'earthy' comments - no matter how accurate they may have been !

I apologise profusely. I thought it would be censored, and was going to edit in "apparently I can't"
Anyway what's wrong with saying it's all a load of old english priests