Fantastic thing in the paper about people getting fat. OldER people. Middle aged. Which I almost remember. Though not getting fat. So a bunch of 40 year-old Scandinavians were monitored for 13 years. What they ate, what exercise they did, how many calories consumed. There were both men and women and for such a long study the results become extremely valid. It’s not like you followed a fat geezer into McDonalds and he ate 3 double bacon cheeseburgers then waddled out again, you can’t make any statistical claims about that. Obvious though they may be. There’s no ‘sampling’, there’s no ‘control group’ (fat people who walk into McDonalds and drink water), there’s nothing to analyse.

And it is known that around middle age our metabolism changes and we become less efficient at breaking down fat, choosing instead to store it, mainly around our middles but elsewhere too. So the study had lots of people changing their food intake significantly and another group which didn’t.

And the findings were simply amazing:

The more food you eat and the less exercise you do the more you become a fat bastard.

Who’d’a known that?

Holy shit. What a waste of 13 years. Whilst condemning the control group of lifestyle non-changers to an early death.

Boris is fat. But may yet get Brexit done. Whether by the end of the month or not remains to be seen. And I have one reason to wish it happens. Because if its done we’ll get a general election and I reckon Boris will win it easily. Because Corbyn is at peak unpopularity. The entire country hates him except Seamus Milne. So that’s one vote he’ll get. Corbyn himself will probably not vote because he’s not good at decision making. Though allegedly, the Labour Party is now completely controlled by John McDonnell after a ‘silent coup’. But he’s worse than Corbyn so let’s get the election sorted then we don’t have to worry about either of those vile and evil men intent on completely destroying the nation in the name of some dead Russian demigods for another 5 years.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx