[Unoloknovagog]

I read in a National Geographic awhile back that the claim that only processed sugar causes cavities is falsified by the fact that about a third of all exhumed mummies show evidence of life-threatening dental abscesses.

[ClapekDodki]

Most of the bodies they dig up from ancient agricultural societies are riddled with health problems.

One of the most common health problems archeologists have found is called "Being dead for thousands of years." Other, less common health problems are diet related. Monoculture diets are apparently bad for you.

[inownsuipsy]

what do you mean here or there? the optimal place would be right in the middle of your chest!

[JessicaLin]

That's true, but a face palm would be so much easier

[Hsmrcahr]

Providing we have lactase secreted into our digestive tract, we can quite happily digest and absorb dairy products. In it's absence, then no (excluding any predigestion).

Gluten, similar. Providing you don't have an immune response to the partially digested protein, you can break it down and absorb it quite happily.

Personally, my digestive tract works just fine and secretes all the enzymes it needs to secrete, and my immune system doesn't go apeshit at the silliest of things. So I can eat what I like and I don't appreciate some jumped up dietician telling me what I can and can't eat. Try and have a balanced diet - and that does include fat too! And follow one simple rule...if what you eat is greater than what you burn off, you'll put on weight. And vice versa. So if you eat a lot and aren't prepared to give that up (like me), exercise more. I managed to lose over 30kg with barely changing my diet - I just made sure I exercised plenty.

[petrarkaponye]

You are what you eat.

McKeith ate a talking turd.

[whimpykid]

Plus McKeith's lining up of food of the week looks like the Iceland adverts with Kerry Katona.

[JoZertekAdv]

Yeah, she's a miserable cow. And her Scottishness just adds to the effect of being dour and pissed off with life in general and is doing her best to take everyone else down with her. Perhaps she should spend more time in Scotland where the diets truly are abysmal.

But yeah, the trick for me is just getting plenty of exercise. I was in the pool today and two comic store guy lookalikes has decided to swim in the fast lane where I was trying to swim and, needless to say, kept bumping into their feet. I was tempted to point out at one point the word "Fast" on the sign, and that there was an "s" in there.

[GustavM]

The British are proof positive that human beings can survive and even thrive on the vilest of food sources.

And that no-one need care about dentistry.

[irridgita]

Yeah, Americans. There was one in the hotel in Mexico City last week. We were in a lift, just us two. The lift said it could handle 6. I heard it f**king creaking

[Blotassefesek]

That was really a stupid thing to do.

[Chiquita]

Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Skegness and S****horpe.

[WhonyGataxott]

Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Skegness and S****horpe.

Yes...horrible aren't they. All in Lincolnshire too A colleague of mine was over in Mexico City from Ireland. It turned out he had to work in Grimsby for 14 months. I shook his hand and offered my condolences, and if there was anything I could do, he only needed to ask

[kristloken]

The only good thing to come out of Lincolnshire is the Lincolnshire sausage and the A1.

[Adwetyren]

Well, depends on whereabouts in Yorkshire. There are some lovely places. There are some pretty damn dire ones too.

The only fun I had in Yorkshire was on the trip from Booze to Crackpot.

[VastDrura]

Anything north of the Thames is all the same to me.

Well you work there, not me

[pharmablogger]

with a good chianti

[zlopikanikanzax]

I recall years ago when the "health community" said eggs were bad for you- too much cholesterol- and I thought to myself, "You mean this stuff we've been eating for thousands of years is BAD for us? Why don't I believe you?"

And then a few years later it was discovered that most of that cholesterol was of a *good* kind and eggs were suddenly ok again. So whenever something like that pops up in the news I ignore it completely.

[adsexpist]

And speaking of dieticians...that Gillian McKeith woman...what a f**ked up, poo-poking sourfaced b*tch!

never heard of her. What's so bad about her?

[bWn4h8QD]

I recall years ago when the "health community" said eggs were bad for you- too much cholesterol- and I thought to myself, "You mean this stuff we've been eating for thousands of years is BAD for us? Why don't I believe you?"

And then a few years later it was discovered that most of that cholesterol was of a *good* kind and eggs were suddenly ok again. So whenever something like that pops up in the news I ignore it completely.

That's because there is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. I'm not sure about the chemical make-up of eggs, but even I learnt in high school biology class that High-density lipoprotein bounded cholesterol (HDL-C) is 'good cholesterol", as opposed to Low density lipoprotein (LDL)

High HDL values give additional resistance to heart failure for example. Check wikipedia or something for more details I guess. I don't remember much about it really.