X-Message-Number: 19823 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:09:37 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: CR goes way way mainstream in trivia news. References: <> Want to Live Longer? Do This One Thing Eat less food. We know, that's no fun. But the preliminary evidence is astounding: Eat less, and it may increase your lifespan by as much as 40 percent. (cont.) http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/ns/content.jsp?file=news/longer/longer.jsp The above title and hook was placed right under a story about Jennifer Aniston from the sitcom "Friends" on my Netscape home page. Good! The more increased longevity messages go mainstream the better. ------- Another story, a mini story, about possible ill effects of coffee... Oh No! Does Coffee Really Cause... By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor ...a subarachnoid hemorrhage? This is a type of stroke that commonly afflicts people who are 25 to 50 and is caused by bleeding in the brain. The bad news: It can. The good news: This new research from Norway is still preliminary and doctors are not recommending--yet--that you give up your morning cup of java.Also on the list of causes are smoking and high blood pressure, and doctors ARE recommending you give up cigarettes and get your blood pressure under control. Reuters notes that a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a type of stroke caused by sudden bleeding into the space between the brain and its covering, usually occurs when a weakened blood vessel in the brain bursts. Drinking green tea daily does WHAT? Find out the surprising answer here http://channels.netscape.com/ns/wrap/linker.jsp?floc=ns-wnew&ref=http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020121/greentea.html . They are rare, affecting only 10 out of every 100,000 people. The risk factors for a subarachnoid hemorrhage have never been determined, which is what the team from Tromso University Hospital in Norway set out to do. The researchers conducted a large, population-based study. From a sample of more than 27,000 people, they compared 26 who had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage with 104 healthy people who were matched by age and gender. From this comparison, the Norwegian team learned that those who had a subarachnoid hemorrhage were also more likely to smoke, drink more coffee, and have high blood pressure. Those who drank five or more cups of coffee a day were almost four times as likely to have this type of stroke. If coffee really does increase the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage, it's not known why or how. The study was published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. -------- and just for good measure... 10 Very Weird Ways to Lose Weight By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor Sometimes we can shed pounds and get healthier in the strangest ways! One way is to develop good eating habits. Holly McCord and Virginia Leoni Moles of Men's Health magazine put this list together focusing on the idea of SIMPLICITY. If it's easy, you might just stick with it. If you stick with it, you'll lose weight. 1. Before every meal, drink two glasses of water. You'll eat less and be hydrated. 2. Love pizza? Order it with double tomato and light cheese. Less cheese=fewer calories and fat. 3. Love junk food? Eat it if you must, but follow it with two glasses of water. The water will actually flush away some of the sodium. You're stuck with the fat. 4. Eat a healthy afternoon snack and you'll eat less at dinner. Ideas: Yogurt and fruit, hard-boiled egg, an apple. 5. Wash your meat to remove up to 50 percent of the fat and cholesterol. After you brown ground beef, move it to a colander and rinse it with hot tap water. Have the munchies? Here are 16 superior snacks that will fill you up and not make you fat. 6. Love salad? Put the dressing on the side. Dip your fork in the dressing first and THEN in the salad. 7. Love seconds? Go ahead--but only the vegetables. 8. Spread out your fat intake throughout the day The immediate cause of most heart attacks is your last fatty meal. 9. Always eat (a small) dessert! Sweets signal your brain that it's time to stop eating. 10. Love a bedtime snack? Make it a bowl of dry cereal. It will make you sleepy and give you a fiber boost. -------- Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend! Oh, almost forgot. I figured the calcium supplement idea was too good to be true. But I wondered if anyone had heard of it before and whether any of his so called science had any small bit of merit at all. I knew someone here would probably know. Such as his claim that changing the bodies PH, first is it even possible with extra calcium(?), and next that said PH change bathes the body in electrons or ions--I forget which, this supposedly helping cells in some manner. I only caught the tail end of the infomercial. James -- MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ A COLLECTION of photos of me and some of my artwork: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite A RADIO INTERVIEW on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality": http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728 A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19823