Saturday, January 03, 2009

Medical News You Can Use

Sometimes science can be our friend. Get a load of this!

Dieting at this time of year could impair your body's ability to fight the flu virus...

Were sweeter findings ever reported? I mean, can you believe it? Now it makes absolute sense that the Girl Scouts start their cookie sales in January - they're doing it as a service to the general welfare. Maybe the Surgeon General should post a little advisory label on those cookie boxes, stating that consumption of the contents thereof can contribute to one's wellbeing (something many of us already knew, right?). Maybe we should be able to use the money in our flexible healthcare spending accounts to purchase said cookies.

Still not convinced? Another quote from the article:

...now is not the time to be thinking about diets...


So skip the flu shots and pass those Trefoils, will ya?
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27 comments:

  1. Jennifer SJanuary 03, 2009

    I have never loved you more.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 03, 2009

    The only problem is that the article mentioned increased weight loss as a result of having a nastier flu...
    There are those of us who much prefer the illness method of dieting. When we lived in Mauritania, I never minded having giardia--such a quick and relatively easy way to lose those unwanted pounds! ;)

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  3. FreakmomJanuary 03, 2009

    I'll pass that along to Violet, her sales officially begin today. Sounds like a good selling point to me! Take two Thin Mints and call me in the morning.

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  4. amyJanuary 03, 2009

    Have the Girl Scouts stopped making those things with trans fats yet? I won't buy them because the ingredient list (last time I checked) was horrifying. I stopped eating trans fats about a decade before the government decided they were bad for you. Someone explained the process to me and that was that. Yuck.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 03, 2009

    Music to my ears! (Or, perhaps more accurately, "SWEET!")

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  6. AS AmberJanuary 03, 2009

    YEE-HAW!!!! Best. News. Ever.

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  7. MamaHen EmJanuary 03, 2009

    Well that's all I need to keep my off the diet and away from excercise. Pass the peanut butter fudge, would you?

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  8. Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing]January 03, 2009

    Thanks, Doc. I'm off to eat my weight in Thin Mints and Tagalongs. Deeeeelish. Don't want to catch a cold, right?

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  9. JamiJanuary 03, 2009

    Yes! We may never meet but you will hold a special spot in my heart forever for sharing the good news!

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  10. JillybeanJanuary 03, 2009

    Finally!!
    A reason NOT to diet!

    I only wish we had more girl scouts around here.

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  11. Heather TJanuary 03, 2009

    Why stop with Trefoils when samoas and thin mints are available from the same sweet girls?
    Thank you for a good excuse to indulge.

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  12. Manic MommyJanuary 03, 2009

    Hello, Nutrisystems? I'd like to cancel my order...

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  13. Feisty Irish WenchJanuary 03, 2009

    Ah thanks for lending to my blog fodder today. I had a picture I wanted to share with the world and your blog was the logical segue into it.
    And girl scout cookies? My fairy goddaughter is a girlscout, so I should head her off at the pass and just email her mother with my cookie order before she even asks me about them.

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  14. Jenn @ Juggling LifeJanuary 03, 2009

    Like I need encouragement to eat Thin Mints and Samoas?

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  15. AnonymousJanuary 03, 2009

    I love it when people force me to eat cookies.

    "No! not another one! well, only because you want me to."

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  16. LynnJanuary 03, 2009

    You can have my share of the Trefoils. I'll take your unwanted Thin Mints and Samoas.

    @Jenn: wanna thumb-wrestle for them?

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  17. katydidnotJanuary 03, 2009

    mmmm. trefoils.

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  18. AnonymousJanuary 03, 2009

    Sounds good to me. Aren't the girl scouts due out soon? I want some thin mints and samoas.

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  19. UnknownJanuary 03, 2009

    LOL just what everyone needs- yet another reason to not stick with their resolutions. Next year post this before the first. ;-)

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  20. the planet of janetJanuary 03, 2009

    i think i love you.

    no.

    i KNOW i do. this was the greatest holiday gift ever.

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  21. Alison WonderlandJanuary 03, 2009

    I'll have a do-si-do if you're handing them out.

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  22. mommeeof10January 04, 2009

    My 13 yr old is selling them now. I rarely order them anymore, as my kids eat them before I get a chance to hide any. It's easier for me to give the troup $20 instead of selling 38 boxes so they would get the 55 cents per box.

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  23. AnonymousJanuary 04, 2009

    I buy from every girl scout I know who asks me. True story.
    Which explains why there is still a box of Thin Mints in the freezer.

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  24. lilypotterJanuary 04, 2009

    This could not have come at a better time, as I literally am eating my way through a box of Thin Mints as I type. Thanks for lessening the guilt!

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  25. the mama bird diariesJanuary 05, 2009

    The Girl Scouts probably commissioned a study that proves "Thin Mints' will lead to a thinner, more satisfying life.

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  26. Luke HolzmannJanuary 05, 2009

    Very good news [smile].

    ~Luke

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  27. SabrinaTJanuary 08, 2009

    OK, YOU SO ROCK!!!

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