17 beers a day for better health?

Once again, Yahoo has served up a misleading headline that drives home the point that you need to read articles and not just browse headlines. Furthermore, you then need to analyze the information and decide what it means. In this case, at least, not much analysis is needed.

"Beer ingredient may fight prostate cancer " reads the headline.

The article, in fact, tells a far different story, mainly that you probably need to drink about 17 beers a day for this to be true. Can 17 beers a day be healthy? C'mon! Without even discussing its alcohol content, we're talkin' about 3,000 calories consisting of alcohol and carbs--not exactly the Zone. With a diet like this you'll die long before prostate cancer has any sort of chance to affect your healthy at all.

What this article is actually telling us is that not all of beer's ingredients are bad for us but, in order to have a balanced diet, we need to eat other foods as well. Hardly a sexy headline but, unfortunately, that's the way it is.

What if I don't want to get bulky?

Women often fear getting 'bulky' by lifting weights. My standard
answer is that gaining bulk is very difficult and in a program
where you're doing 10 - 25 reps it's nearly impossible. I received
the below email from my boss who got it from one of our clients.
According to this guy, Dave, I've been toning down my responses.
You know, I think Dave is onto something.

Carl, I saw this on one of the bodybuilding boards I peruse,
this in response to a girl who feared she would "bulk up" if she lifted
weights....I can sooooo see this going through the mind of Stever Edwards..lol

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, YOU CANNOT GET TOO BIG
FROM LIFTING WEIGHTS! A NON-DRUG-USING MALE
TRAINEE WOULD HAPPILY CRAWL ON HIS LIPS THROUGH
A FIELD OF LEECHES TO ADD FIFTEEN CRUMMY LITTLE
POUNDS OF MUSCLE A YEAR! DO YOU THINK THAT YOU
ARE SOMEHOW SO SPECIAL THAT YOU WILL DEFY THE
LAWS OF PHYSIOLOGY AND SUDDENLY BECOME HUGE
ONE DAY? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GODDAMNED
TESTOSTERONE, HONEY