Monday, October 09, 2006

bad is the new good and vice versa

imperdible. que fin del mundo ni que nada... tengo que retractarme: aqui hay casi puras buenas noticias!

9 comments:

aleurzua said...

NO ENTIENDO... COMO VAN A SER BUENAS NOTICIAS COMER ESPINACAS...!!!!!
QUE NO VISTE MI POSTEO ANTERIOR?????

aleurzua said...

se nota que no leiste el articulo, porque YA SE PUEDE comer espinaca. el punto era otro. que se puede comer chocolate, porque hace bien y es un antioxidante; se puede tener sobrepeso (no ser obesa), porque se vive mas; se puede tomar vino, porque ayuda al colesterol, y muchisimas cosas impensadas. cuidado eso si, aunque Ud. no lo crea, con la -hasta hoy dia sana- zanahoria!!!

Cecilia said...

Debo agregar cuiddo también con la lechuga..... Estoy que importo el famoso Zonalin que usaban nuestras madres en otros tiempos, al menos la mía....
Y si rh no leyó artículo puede ser porque igual que a mi le dio demasiada lata inscribirse para poder leer el artículo.... Quizás no es su razón pero fue la mía. He dicho.

aleurzua said...

1. NO, POR ACA AUN SIGUEN DESCUBRIENDO focos de infección asi que la espinaca SIGUE vigiladamente prohibida.
2. Coincido con Cecilia, mira que pagarle a La Segunda, donde se ha visto!

aleurzua said...

porque soy una very, very SERIOUS person, les mando el articulo completo, para que esten informadas, sobre todo LA MADRE:

The Age of Dissonance
MEAN VEGETABLES

Good news. Spinach is safe to eat again, according to the Food and Drug Administration. So dig in if you dare. But beware of carrot juice. Last week, just two days before spinach got the clear, a brand of carrot juice from California was linked to botulism from a bacterium in soil that increases when juice isn’t properly refrigerated.

Maybe you should have some chocolate and red wine instead. Studies in recent years show that they’re linked with phenols that will lower your cholesterol levels.

No need to worry about their extra calories, either. Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published last spring suggests that overweight people live longer.

And now that a couple stiff drinks a day are deemed good for men’s hearts and Viagra is under study for the same thing, a longer life may be more appealing.

This is becoming the decade when bad is the new good and vice versa.

Go to jail like Lil’ Kim and it ends up being a good career move, right?

But yoga? It can cause as many injuries as jogging. And yoga mats can be as full of bacteria as airline blankets. Maybe it’s better to gossip. Studies are showing that gabbing at the water cooler is a “sophisticated, multifunctional interaction” that clarifies social rules and alleviates depression. Gambling? Seniors who indulge, a Yale study finds, are healthier than those who don’t because they’re engaging in social activity.

Even getting angry has been getting some good press lately, at least in Finland. One self-styled therapist there is offering “anger venting” classes to offset repressed emotions in a country that suffers from a high level of depression and suicide.

On television, meanwhile, Showtime has two series that are adding to the good-bad confusion. One show, “Weeds,” is about a lovable pot-dealing mother. The other, “Dexter,” is about a lovable serial killer. He only kills bad people, of course.

Nothing is black and white anymore. And the solid ground about what’s good for you has become as wobbly as mercury, which we now know makes healthy tuna and swordfish as much a risk as farmed salmon — frequently contaminated, but rich in omega oils.

You may as well have a steak. Maybe Woody Allen had it right in “Sleeper.” After being frozen for 200 years, he wakes up to find that steak, among other things, has become a health food. Sounds a lot like what Atkins dieters have already discovered.

What else? Bicycling (exercise!) is good unless you’re a man worried about the increased incidence of prostate cancer and impotence among cyclists. Surfing, so meditative and aerobic, can be bad if you surf in California after heavy rains, when the ocean is polluted with fecal bacteria that cause eye infections, liver damage and diarrhea.

What about being a congressional page? That used to be good. What is it now?

Perhaps all this is why the title of Steven Johnson’s “Everything Bad Is Good For You” struck a note when it was published last spring. Around the same time that the Journal of American Medicine reported that the overweight (but not obese) actually outlive the thin, Mr. Johnson was convincingly hypothesizing that video games and TV — both increasingly complex and conceptual in their scope — help rather than hinder mental development in children. He suggests that what parents always thought of as “cognitive junk food” may be more like the equivalent of green vegetables.

But that was before spinach became a menace. It’s enough to drive any well-meaning educator or mother mad.

Especially after they had to hear, not long before the spinach scare, that even seemingly salubrious fruit juice is contributing to the national obesity epidemic.

“We have healthy snacks at our school,” said Joy Franjola, who teaches the fourth grade at Public School 87 in Manhattan. “But today I gave out apples and wondered if they’re safe. Who’s to say what’s good anymore? At least we know French fries aren’t made with trans fats.”

Joanna Molloy, who writes the Rush & Molloy column in The Daily News and who has an 8-year-old son, said: “When chicken fingers are safer than spinach, you know the kids have won.” Her son defends chocolate by saying it’s an antioxidant.

“The irony is inescapable,” added Kim Chirles, an Upper West Side mother who used to make her own baby food. “So I’ve decided to feed my children at McDonald’s.”

Follow it up with some TV and chocolate and call it a healthy night.

Cecilia said...

Gracias por la publicación completa.... Y no Ale, no espinacas, jugo de zanahoria (que no compramos NUNCA excepto que mi marido se le ocurrió comprar 2 botellas justo hace 2 semanas....) ni lechuga. Lechuga que especificaron cuál marca no comprar y adivinen! La mismísima que estaba en nuestro refrigerador.

aleurzua said...

guaaaaa!!!!
como tan mal ojo el par de agronomos!
o era la mas barata????

Cecilia said...

OYE!!!! Más respeto! Además que no tiene NADA que ver cuán buena pueda ser la lechuga agronómicamente hablando con los bichos o no que pueda traer. Aparte que todo trae bichos y lo que pasa es que estos gringos son tan paranoicos que les bajó la locura.

Anonymous said...

Sip, toy de acuerdo, mucha parania.
Gracias por poner el artículo completo.
Aunque el blog no es mio y por lo tanto no tengo derecho ni a voz ni voto, propongo que SIEMPRE pongas los arículos, porque nunca los puedo ver (acepto que es de floja nomas, excepto por La Tercera) y me pierdo cosas muy entretenidas. Creo, porque no hay forma de saber definitivamente, ya que no leo los artículos.
Gracias!