"U.S. and Italian researchers tracked thousands of adults during nearly two decades and found that those who ate a diet high in animal proteins during middle age were four times more likely to die of cancer than contemporaries with low-protein diets — a risk factor, if accurate, comparable to smoking. They also were several times more likely to die of diabetes, researchers said." In the study, researchers defined a “high-protein” diet as one in which at least 20 percent of calories came from protein; a “low-protein” diet was defined as less than 10 percent.  

My friend Ennid Berger says, I like to eat almost everything. However, my wife Joanne is far more discriminatingand as the years have gone by I have developed the ability to help her "manage" the menu,i.e., choose something that she will like. Otherwise, if she does not like something she ordered we have to trade plates. I am now thinking of giving a course at the New School or some other eclectic forum called "Menue Management" and lending myself out to fine restaurants.  After all, it is better to give than receive! 

It was time for our grandson, Jackson, to take his nap. Our daughter-in-law picked him up saying “It’s time for me to put Jackson down.” A strange choice of words.

At the risk of engaging in excessive partisan politics,  I just wanted to gauge a reaction to both Sarah Palin's concerns about the potential Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and Mitt Romney's claim that Russia was our primary geopolitical enemy.  Both were actively ridiculed on this forum during their respective elections.

During rush hour, the commuters’ protocol is simple: head down, find your spot and hold on. Standing on a crowded subway platform, the goal is to make sure you are situated to get on the train and plant your spot. That protocol makes it almost impossible to absorb your surroundings until after the doors on the subway have closed.

If I’m running a bit slow this morning it’s because I stayed up last night to watch the Oscars. And while I love the show itself, it’s really the walking of the red carpet that I love the most.

The big financial news of the week was the collapse of the Bitcoin trading giant, Mt. Gox.   This should not come as a real surprise, if you know anything about Bitcoins.   I also don't know why anyone would even trade with a company that sounds like Dr.

Or does it?   Earlier this month US Attorney General Holder called for an end to felon disenfranchisement...the ability of a convicted felon to vote. Not the people who are already in jail...only those that have been released. Most states have this restriction as law.