370...Buffets Are For Birthdays

This is an important one.

I was perusing the Moscow News on line and was amused to discover that 25 years ago this month Tetris, my favourite video game, so simple yet so frustrating, debuted.

It is estimated that over a million people waste time every day playing Tetris. Moi aussi.

There is more, Henk Rogers, whose Blue Planet Software controls the game's licensing, outlined ambitious plans for the future that include a Tetris Cup and Tetris in the Olympics.

Happy birthday, darling.

WFDS

368...Step Away From The Buffet

I was just starting to feel good about myself and now this, a report from today's copy of The Journal of the American Medical Association says that becuase I may have noshed a bit too much when I was between the ages of 14 to 49, my chances of getting pancreatic cancer, a killer, have increased significantly.

Thankfully if one can eat one past the half century mark the risk becomes statisically insignificant.

WFDS

367...Hitting The Buffet, Hard, Extends Life

I knew I was doing the right thing and now a report in the online journal Obesity supports my high caloric intake.

Mark Kaplan, a co-author of the study and a professor of Community Health at Portland State University, said in a release yesterday that people who are severely underweight and circus fat do not live as long as those of us, me in particular, that have a slightly elevated BMI [Body Mass Index], to wit, people who were slightly overweight [BMI 25 to less than 30] had 0.83 times lower risk of death compared with normal weight people.

Let's face it, if I get lost in the forest with some skinny dude, who is going to last longer?

Exactly.

Unless, of course, he decides to kill me and eat me.

WFDS