This Week In Medicine: Stop Exercising and Eat Chocolate!

This Week In Medicine: Stop Exercising and Eat Chocolate!

"It’s been a terrific few days of medical news for lazy people and chocoholics.

First, a study in PLoS One provided ammunition to the exercise-averse crowd by claiming that exercise can actually be bad for some healthy people. As an added bonus, a story about the study was carried on the front page of the New York Times.

Less than a day later, in a moment that will be long treasured by chocoholics, a study in BMJ calculated that people with metabolic syndrome could reduce their risk of serious cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes by eating dar chocolate every day."

Exercise shortens your life while chocolate prolongs it?

Chris Christie is immortal!

No wonder he didn't care about running in 2012. He can bide his time, with thousands of years to wait. In fact, he can wait until he's the only living human, then run for president of everything!

Actually, our resident fortune tellers say he will be America's 363rd president, right between Krill of Zankor and Reaganbot4000.