You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. ™
Thinking chocolate will give you cancer, and then learning it fights cancer.
Being told that tomato sauce has good antioxidants, then finding out it might be killing you.
Hearing that coffee is dangerous to your health, only to learn that coffee is the new fountain of youth.
Doctors and scientists routinely issue reports listing foods that might be linked to cancer. But like a yo yo, it’s not long before that report is retracted and a new report is issued that completely contradicts the first report.
First report? Last report? Life? Death? What is a poor patient to believe? I mean you guys have the PHD’s right? I can’t even balance my F-in Check Book.
If you watch the news long enough, if you read enough newspapers, if you spend enough time on the internet you will be inundated with yo yo cancer data that is up then down.
We trust scientists to give us information, and quantifiable data that will make our lives better. But all too often the info we get morphs into info that cannot be trusted. It’s like a stick of cold butter pulled from the fridge. It begins hard and solid. Its shape is sure and defined and we quickly trust our eyes that this is indeed butter that will bake a beautiful cake. But left on the counter for a few hours and it becomes something else. It has the chemical make up of butter, but to our eyes it is now a lake of goo filled with cholesterol and heart clogging death.
Figuring out how not to die, with all the conflicting information, is harder than the New York Times Crossword puzzle.
Now another report to quench your thirst and make you doubt everything you have known up to this point.
Researchers at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg have discovered that beer contains a powerful molecule that helps protect against breast and prostate cancers.
As I have often said: Go Beer!
Budweiser: the king of beers and now it fights cancer too. Screw the Clydesdale commercials. I say get a cancer patient hooked up to IV’s in a hosptial bed doing beer bongs. He can burp, look into the camera and say: “This Bud’s for you!”
According to this obscure report: The cancer fighting molecule is found in hops. The substance – like you care – is called xanthohumol and it blocks the excessive action of testosterone and oestrogen. It also helps to prevent the release of a protein called PSA which encourages the spread of prostate cancer.
So that’s good news for every Englishman in the pub right now. Their cancer chances diminish with every pint they throw back. Of course their chance of getting hit by a bus outside the pub also increases exponentially.
So, I say drink beer if you like beer. If you drink enough of this new fangled cancer fighting elixer, perhaps your postrate will thank you in the morning while you’re praying to the porcelin God.
and that is crazy