not just for kids

The kid should see this.

Eat red meat and you die

sort of

People who ate more red meat were less physically active and more likely to smoke and had a higher body mass index, researchers found. Still, after controlling for those and other variables, they found that each daily increase of three ounces of red meat was associated with a 12 percent greater risk of dying over all, including a 16 percent greater risk of cardiovascular death and a 10 percent greater risk of cancer death. The increased risks linked to processed meat, like bacon, were even greater: 20 percent over all, 21 percent for cardiovascular disease and 16 percent for cancer. If people in the study had eaten half as much meat, the researchers estimated, deaths in the group would have declined 9.3 percent in men and 7.6 percent in women.

looks like I'm going to lower my bacon intake...

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Jonathan Haidt Explains Our Contentious Culture

To Bill Moyers

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains how liberals and conservatives see the world differently.



Added bonus: an old TED talk by Haidt: