Study Finds Value in Email Spam

Ant writes "According to a LiveScience story, a steady diet of email spam can be good for you. From the article: 'Researchers split a group of more than 2,100 Canadians into two groups. One group got e-mails that promoted healthy lifestyles, the other got none. "These were informative and motivational messages sent weekly for 12 weeks," explained study leader Ron Plotnikoff of the University of Alberta. The e-mails promoted the benefits of a good diet and physical activity. Those who were effectively spammed, as a group, saw their mean body mass index (BMI) go down, meaning it improved. BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Overall BMI rose for the control group, which did not get the emails.'"

Comments

Study Finds Drinking Alcohol is Healthy

[Draconix]

A glass of red wine a day is good for you.

Re:"smapped"?

[macshit]

I don't think that's quite fair -- SMAP may not be the future of music, and they're definitely, er, over-exposed, but they at least seem to be pretty likeable guys.

That's big difference between Japanese and American "corporate pop" in my mind: Japanese pop stars generally seem more or less normal people if you discount the fact that they're on TV every 57 seconds (I was going to say something about the funny clothing and hairstyles, but come to think of it half the teenagers in Japan dress the same way...); American pop stars are usually mind-bendingly annoying self-obsessed wankers.