Beauty ≠ Sexuality?

[drogulus]

     I believe the study is correct. If that requires me to "believe the news" I'm willing to do that.

     

     Study: Overweight People Live Longer

[Mozart]

It reminds me of the simpsons when Marge becomes a real estate agent.

There is (in serious voice) THE TRUTH (nodding head NO)
and then (in lighter voice) There is the truth (nodding head yes)


Besides, I am sure there to be 50 studies and 25 of them say one thing and 25 say the exact opposite. And the cure for cancer is right around the corner too.

[drogulus]

Besides, I am sure there to be 50 studies and 25 of them say one thing and 25 say the exact opposite. And the cure for cancer is right around the corner too.

    I think you mean 57 studies. I have here in my hand....

    Maybe you're right and the 57 fantasy studies show no such thing. Can you see why I'm more impressed with the real study, particularly since the result was not unexpected?

    About stating the obvious, I'm interested in how a beauty/sex standard works, so it helps to know what feeds into it. Along the way the obvious is stated and explanations sought and offered. Of course if you operate on intuition and truisms alone you're stuck with this great Thinker said this and that one said that and never mind knowing something. Maybe the genius who first opined about the eye of the beholder is actually more right than I suspect, but what knowledge gets you there? I want the unobvious route to the obvious. If Forrest Gump is right about a box of chocolates it will take a very unGump process to confirm it.  

[Mozart]

Now, in a new study, researchers from Northwestern University have found that eating at the "wrong" time leads to more than twice as much weight gain, even when the overall calories consumed are the same as those eaten at appropriate times.

June 23, 2009 -- Want to live a long time? When you prepare dinner tonight, go heavy on the vegetables, skip the meat, and enjoy a bit of wine.

Past research already has linked the so-called Mediterranean diet with longevity. A new study finds that certain aspects of the diet -- such as high consumption of vegetables and olive oil, low consumption of meat, and moderate consumption of alcohol -- may be more strongly linked to longevity.

I don't take any of these studies seriously. If you really want to live a long life, find people who are really old, and do what they do. Don't try to figure out and break it down to specific things, ahh olive oil is good for a long healthy life. Go to Okinawa and if you see a 103 year old woman gardening, then garden. Do her little exercise (I forget the name) and eat her cooking.

Anyways does the study say anything about the quality of life? What if this is only true for Canadians? There are families is Sardinia, Italy who eat lots of meat and drink lots of wine and still manage to live healthily into their 90s and 100s. If I did that I would be dead at 47. Just saying, there are many complex factors to health and longevity and by looking at it through a microscope, you miss the bigger picture.