Thursday, January 26, 2006

Something from the cybernet

This is an anecdote pinned on the noticeboard of the dietetics department at Monash University, Melbourne:(not sure its true or somebody trying to be funny)

NUTRITION FACTS
Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attack than theAussies, British or Americans.


Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attack than theAussies, British or Americans.

African drinks very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attack thanthe Aussies, British or Americans.

Italian drink large amount of red wine and suffer fewer heart attackthan the Aussies, British or Americans.

Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats andsuffer fewer heart attack than the Aussies, British or Americans.


CONCLUSION
Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you


3 comments:

McBudu said...

No wonder my English teacher dies young and pakcik orenjey in Arau who speaks English everyday suffered heart attack (Mizi knows him)

Just curious, if that also applies to writing? If so I'd better retrieve all my past postings!

Harith Faruqi Sidek said...

only god knows why....maybe an exemption for the broken english clan la...

indica said...

Guess it only applies to ppl whose mother-tongue is English..so, for us banjarian, javanese, siamese... need not to worry...he he