The youngster is on vacation, Frank (aka Landy, aka El Destructo) is here, Flower and Big-I are coming in late after going to a concert and then staying out all night trying to prove they’re still twenty.

This means that this afternoon I get to deal with a pair of hungover old ladies and El Destructo.

I think I’ll go home now.

A major study was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine from Harvard. In approximately 85,000 women who were followed for 26 years and 45,000 men who were followed for 20 years, researchers found that all-cause mortality rates were increased in both men and women who were eating a low-carbohydrate Atkins diet based on animal protein. [...]

Conclusion: A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.

Atkins was wrong.

Your mother was right.

Now shut up and eat your vegetables.