Australian TV has done another televised test, again with a website that struggles to provide a connection let alone data before the connection times out. This time it was the Living Longer test, calculating people's lifespans based on approximately the criteria that insurance companies use. As well as an insurance company, the test was sponsored by red meat and Nicorette, which was fantastically evil - immediately after the show's "here's what you can do to improve your score in this section" there would be the horrible deceptive (though literally accurate) ad stating "Red meat is part of a healthy diet. Healthy diets are part of why we live 23 years longer now than [at some time in the past]."
In the test, one would also get 5 life points for eating lots of fish, not taking into account that several types of fish are especially high in essential vitamins and minerals such as delicious delicious mercury, and also not taking into account that much of the beneficial stuff from fish can be had from flax seed or flax oil. So that speaks well for the accuracy of the test.
What did I score on the test? I have no idea. Instead of sitting on the couch (no exercise, bad for your health) watching crappy TV (very stressful, waiting for them to bloody hurry up with the next section - they stretched it out over about 2 hours when it could easily have fit in 20 minutes - and stress is bad for your health), I went and made a delicious healthy curry. It was healthy even though it didn't have any red meat, fish, or Nicorette in it.
And now I leave you with these words of wisdom from the show. "If diets worked we'd all be thin, and we're not, so diets obviously don't work."
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