It's the classic joke about young women exercising and keeping slim, until they move in with a guy and grow fat. And researchers in Australia have found that it is true, but not only for girls.
After moving in, women ate more and men exercised less, said study leader Dr Valerie Burke, from the University of Western Australia and the Royal Perth Hospital.
The study followed 600 people, exam ining changes in lifestyle and heart health risk factors from 18 to 25. Over weight women increased from 10 per cent at the age of 18 to 22 per cent at 25, while overweight men rose from 13 per cent at 18 to 35 per cent at 25.
After UNscam, who in their right mind will give the UN control over Iraq?
Mark Steyn wonders why so many on the left has this rosy view of the UN after so many scandals have hit the world organisation, and nobody says this better than him:
No matter how corrupt and depraved it is in practice, the organisation's sunny utopian image endures. Say the initials "UN" to your average member of Ms Toynbee's legions of the unthinking and they conjure up not UN participation in the sex-slave trade in Bosnia, nor the UN refugee extortion racket in Kenya, nor the UN cover-up of the sex-for-food scandal in West Africa, nor UN complicity in massacres, but some misty Unesco cultural event compered by the late Sir Peter Ustinov featuring photogenic children.
I have earlier argued that Europeans are brought up to venerate the United Nations through massive propaganda, including state schools. The result is that the corrupt UNocrats can get away with anything, and they know it.
In other words, Oil-for-Fraud is everything the Left said the war was: it was all about oil - for Benon Sevan, the UN, France, Russia and the others who had every incentive to maintain Saddam in power. Every Halliburton invoice to the Pentagon is audited to the last penny, but Saddam can use Kofi Annan's office as a front for a multi-billion dollar global kickback scheme and, until it was brought to public attention by the tireless Claudia Rosett of The Wall Street Journal and a few other persistent types, the Secretary-General apparently never noticed.
True. As I have also written in the past, no blood for oil should have been a pro-war slogan.
