Linda and Eben Henner, a long time ago.
Eben is now a responsible husband, father, and rock-climber.
It appears that nature has determined that men are destined to sit, read and watch TV while women run around and take care of them. At least that is one conclusion one could
(plausibly, but with effort) draw from a new prospective study of 69,260
cancer-free men and 77,462 cancer-free women followed for 17 years as part of
the American Cancer Society’s Prevention
Study II Nutrition Cohort. During
that period 18,555 men and 12,236 contracted cancer – type unspecified. More than just nutrition must have been
observed, however, because this article
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/296883.php
reports that simply SITTING was correlated with (and a
cause?) of multiple myeloma, breast and ovarian cancer in women, whereas there
was no correlation at all between sitting time and cancer in men It also was noted that excess standing
time had definite ill-effects on the health of both sexes. So maybe we were intended to spend our lives
in bed, tended by robots? Not much fun,
it seems to me.
By the way, this piece of news seems to resonate throughout
the writing class – it has appeared three times so far, in journals, ranging
in respectability from Medical News Today to a British tabloid.
My daughter Kristen, her long-time partner Joe, their three
cats and Sunny, a talkative blue micro-parrot will be staying with me until
they find a home – they have moved back to Bellingham from Flagstaff, Arizona –
good for me, certainly and, I hope – good for them. Oh: I
forgot to mention Buddy, the horse. He is
not staying with me, at least not yet.
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