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red meat kills!

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

Posted by azahar in cancer, death & dying, diet & nutrition, food & drink, health & happiness, wtf?

≈ 6 Comments

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bbc, cancer, death, red meat, scare mongering, tapas, vineria san telmo

First of all, read this very silly article – supposedly Health NEWS – from the BBC:

Red meat increases death, cancer and heart risk, says study

Now I ask you… who out there with even half a brain doesn’t know that eating a balanced diet is the healthiest option? Who hasn’t heard (all their lives) that it’s best to eat red meat in moderation? Same goes for fried food, rich sauces, bacon, butter, pâté, fatty cheeses … you know, all the good stuff. And so when I read that a study of over 120,000 people over almost 30 years “suggested red meat increased the risk of death from cancer and heart problems” I clutched my head in despair. In all seriousness, there is probably more “risk of death” every time you cross the street. And, although I don’t eat much red meat myself, I still ended up with colon cancer. So go figure. I honestly don’t see how articles like these are beneficial to anyone – must’ve been an especially slow news day at the BBC.

Meanwhile, that tasty looking dish up there is a divinely decadent combination of perfectly fried eggs (with slightly runny yolks), grilled spicy chorizo Ibérico and potatoes, topped with thin slices of gorgeous jamón Ibérico. But as delicious as it is, I wouldn’t dream of eating that every day. Why? Because I’m not stupid.

I still can’t believe that after years and years of going to the Vineria San Telmo I only tried that dish for the first time during my marathon tapas tours the other day. It truly is to die for. So to speak…

sherlock

07 Tuesday Sep 2010

Posted by azahar in television

≈ 18 Comments

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bbc, sherlock

BBC does it again…

I first became curious about this programme when UK people on Twitter kept posting tweets about it this summer (happily without spoilers), so when it became available on Amazon I decided to order it on spec … but I sure didn’t expect what showed up in the post the other day. Turns out this latest version of Sherlock takes place is present day London – a concept that at first jarred and I was unsure about it working. But after about ten minutes into the first episode I was hooked. It’s clever, well-acted and fun to watch. Too bad there were only three 90-minute episodes made. One more episode to go so no spoilers please…

Sherlock

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