Praise the Good Lard.
Enjoy yourself with this one folks…..
Nanny in a Dog-Collar.
Young adults who frequently attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age then are young adults with no religious involvement, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. This is the first longitudinal study to examine the development of obesity in people with various degrees of religious involvement.
The study, which tracked 2,433 men and women for 18 years, found normal-weight young adults ages 20 to 32 years with a high frequency of religious participation were 50 percent more likely to be obese by middle age after adjusting for differences in age, race, sex, education, income, and baseline body mass index. High frequency of religious participation was defined as attending a religious function at least once a week.
The authors caution that their findings should only be taken to mean people with frequent religious involvement are more likely to become obese, and not that they have worse overall health status than those who are non-religious. In fact, previous studies have shown religious people tend to live longer than those who aren’t religious in part because they tend to smoke less.
Oh dear, where to start….counting your calories not your blessings maybe?
March 25, 2011 at 22:12
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Do these academics actually get paid for producing this drivel?
The
research that is, not the blog!
- March 26, 2011 at 13:42
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It’s the gravy choo choo didn’t you know
- March 25, 2011 at 21:28
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Would anyone like a loaf and a fish?
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March 25, 2011 at 21:36
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Cod moves in mysterious ways.
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March 25, 2011 at 21:39
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Chubb or a bloater?
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March 25, 2011 at 22:09
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The Devil has the best tunas.
(anticryptic explanation, word is usually ‘tunes’)
- March 25, 2011 at 22:18
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(Singing:) ” Salmonchanted evening, you may meeeeet a
straaanger,…”
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March 25, 2011 at 22:33
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Excellent, fatigue prevents more word-mangling from here for this
evening! The anti-cryptic message was due to the confusion I caused
with a previous one…
- March 25, 2011 at 21:20
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Let he who is without sin cast the first scone!
- March 25, 2011 at 23:10
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Bravo
- March 25, 2011 at 20:04
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The traveller returns, with groans for all –
For RCs Body MASS Index
For Anglican exercise Rowan Machine
Williams
(not saying it) Fatwah
For the synagogue Ham sandwich diet
(no-one will eat them)
- March 25, 2011 at 20:27
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For Lutherans (and people who didn’t fall asleep during compulsory R.E.)
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The Diet Of Worms
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March 25, 2011 at 22:28
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You can’t beat a Good Shepherd’s Pie if you ask me.
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March 25, 2011 at 19:42
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I feel that I and certain of my…special friends…should have much to say
about this. Sadly it is a difficult time here at the Abbey, and inspiration is
low. I hope distinctly un normal service will be resumes soon.
G the M
- March 25, 2011 at 19:29
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Who berated all the pious….
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March 25, 2011 at 21:22
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… the Pavolova Witnesses maybe?
- March 25, 2011 at 19:14
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Didn’t expect the Spinach Inquisition over this….
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March 25, 2011 at 19:22
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Well spotted, Dick.
- March 25, 2011 at 19:07
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CheeseBurkha and Chips
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March 25, 2011 at 19:10
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Dripping with sarcasm.
- March 25, 2011 at 19:05
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Probably just following a Fatwa….
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March 25, 2011 at 19:08
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Your harsh words will make me blubber!
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March 25, 2011 at 18:57
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Being obese, I’d have to say that sometimes I only make it to Church on a
bingo-wing and a prayer …
- March 25, 2011 at 18:19
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Perhaps it’s all those angel cakes
- March 25, 2011 at 18:03
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Correlation does not imply causation. Many churches are full of
middle-class, middle aged people who are not into sport. People who are into
keeping fit and staying thin probably spend their Sunday mornings in the gym,
rather than at St. Cuthberts.
- March 25, 2011 at 19:56
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…and less sex, maybe.
- March 26, 2011 at 08:23
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Speak for yourself.
- March 26, 2011 at 17:13
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Or maybe,
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/1st-corinthians/good-sex-bad-sex
But this is the man who believes in putting the “fun” into Christian
fundamentalism.
- March 25, 2011 at 16:39
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Lettuce pray then!
- March 25, 2011 at 14:31
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Ok – so what happens now? Are we all going to be urged to adopt a
spirituality-free diet? How many calories are there in a full rendition of
“Onward Christian Soldiers”? More than, or less than, in the Lord’s Prayer?
Are church mice now struggling to heave their bloated frames from behind the
pews? Or are vicars supplementing their stipends by engaging in
under-the-pulpit trade in lardy cake and cream buns?
I think these researchers should find out….
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25, 2011 at 14:03
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*looks at stomach*
WTF?
- March 25, 2011 at 13:14
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… too many Fat Tuesdays?
- March 25, 2011 at 13:18
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