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Spam can be good for you.
A steady diet of e-mails that promote healthy behavior can change a person's outlook and behavior regarding healthier eating and increased physical activity, says a new study from the University of Alberta. The 12 week study of 2,598 Canadian workers will be published in the July/August 2005 edition of the American Journal of Health Promotion.

People receiving the e-mails showed an increase in physical activity levels and also had more confidence in being able to participate in physical activity at the study's end. They also recognized more pros and fewer cons to physical actiivty and were more open to making dietary changes.

Further, those receiving e-mails actually reduced their mean body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat based on height and weight, over the course of the study. By contrast, the mean BMI of the control group (people who did not receive the e-mails) slightly increased during the study period.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uoa-scb062905.php

This is awesome! I would be the healthiest man in America if Daryl turned off Spamassassin! Brad must have shut off Spammassassin to his account, 'cause look at him now! Gee, you think this study was funded by, I dunno, people who send spam?
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 07-02-2005, 03:11 AM:
 
I am not sure if I have to laugh at that article or not...

Just tell you something: My body mass index is around 20 (which appears to be low) and I do not receive that much spam. But I do eat a lot

Maybe they didn't have the time to eat beacuase of deleting all the spam messagens?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-02-2005, 04:33 AM:
 
Of course it makes you healthier. Merely receiving spam gets the heart pumping and sweat glands running into overdrive by the sheer aggravation of receiving advertising via email.

This really isn't rocket science. Duh!
 

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Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 07-06-2005, 02:01 AM:
 
Also it's a very physical activity, swinging that sledge-hammer and smashing the computer into smitherines.

Than again, this could be an Emily Latella moment....they might have been testing Spam...the lunchmeat of questionable origins.
 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 07-06-2005, 04:36 PM:
 
Spam-- a food substance enjoyed by everyone in Hawaii. There are
more cans of Spam sold in Hawaii than any other state in the U.S. Y U M M Y !! Breakfast, lunch or dinner... Spam is
the one!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-06-2005, 04:58 PM:
 
A Spam haiku from Dan Garcia's Spam Homepage

Oh tin of pink meat
I ponder what you may be:
Snout or ear or feet?

You haven't lived until you've had Spam Musubi, one of da kine local's grinds Oahu side, ey brah!
 

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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 07-07-2005, 08:08 AM:
 
That SPAM page is hilarious ...:

What shining deity from Olympus knelt
down to the earth and hog butt smelt?
Creating then man's eternal desire
for swine entrails congealed by fire.
 

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