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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 07-02-2005 03:02 AM

Spam (not the canned pig meat) has benefits?

quote:
Spam can be good for you.
A steady diet of e-mails that promote healthy behavior can change a person's outlook and behavior regarding healthier eating and increased physical activity, says a new study from the University of Alberta. The 12 week study of 2,598 Canadian workers will be published in the July/August 2005 edition of the American Journal of Health Promotion.

People receiving the e-mails showed an increase in physical activity levels and also had more confidence in being able to participate in physical activity at the study's end. They also recognized more pros and fewer cons to physical actiivty and were more open to making dietary changes.

Further, those receiving e-mails actually reduced their mean body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat based on height and weight, over the course of the study. By contrast, the mean BMI of the control group (people who did not receive the e-mails) slightly increased during the study period.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uoa-scb062905.php

This is awesome! I would be the healthiest man in America if Daryl turned off Spamassassin! Brad must have shut off Spammassassin to his account, 'cause look at him now! Gee, you think this study was funded by, I dunno, people who send spam?

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Dieter Depypere
Master Film Handler

Posts: 343
From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria
Registered: May 2005

posted 07-02-2005 03:11 AM

I am not sure if I have to laugh at that article or not...

Just tell you something: My body mass index is around 20 (which appears to be low) and I do not receive that much spam. But I do eat a lot [Wink]

Maybe they didn't have the time to eat beacuase of deleting all the spam messagens?

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 07-02-2005 04:33 AM

Of course it makes you healthier. Merely receiving spam gets the heart pumping and sweat glands running into overdrive by the sheer aggravation of receiving advertising via email.

This really isn't rocket science. Duh! [Wink]

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 07-06-2005 02:01 AM

Also it's a very physical activity, swinging that sledge-hammer and smashing the computer into smitherines.

Than again, this could be an Emily Latella moment....they might have been testing Spam...the lunchmeat of questionable origins.

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Floyd Justin Newton
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 559
From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-06-2005 04:36 PM

Spam-- a food substance enjoyed by everyone in Hawaii. There are
more cans of Spam sold in Hawaii than any other state in the U.S. Y U M M Y !! Breakfast, lunch or dinner... Spam is
the one! [thumbsup]

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 07-06-2005 04:58 PM

A Spam haiku from Dan Garcia's Spam Homepage

Oh tin of pink meat
I ponder what you may be:
Snout or ear or feet?

You haven't lived until you've had Spam Musubi, one of da kine local's grinds Oahu side, ey brah! [Cool]

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-07-2005 08:08 AM

That SPAM page is hilarious ...:

What shining deity from Olympus knelt
down to the earth and hog butt smelt?
Creating then man's eternal desire
for swine entrails congealed by fire.

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