Drinking green tea may reduce risk of death from all causes, suggests a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study found those who drank five cups of green tea per day were 16 percent less likely to die from any cause during the 11-year study than those who drank less than one cup per day.

I guess my only thought after reading this short article is that perhaps people who drink a lot of tea are also doing other things for their health, or at least, fewer unhealthy things. Wouldn't that follow? I mean, you're probably not going to get someone who eats a lot of fast food hamburgers, for instance, also drinking five cups of green tea. So I'd take it with a grain of salt. Interesting, though.

Link from SlashFood

CNN's Nancy Grace is one of those newspeople that I absolutely cannot watch. It's always been obvious that she fancies hereself some sort of crusader, and now I see that she is a "former prosecutor."

In a phone interview taped for Grace's show last week, the former prosecutor banged her hand on her desk and repeatedly demanded an account of Duckett's whereabouts on Aug. 27, the day her son, Trenton, vanished.

Once Grace had badgered Ms. Duckett into submission, she cut to a "media psychologist" who she had on hand, who said:

. . . Duckett's story "doesn't make any sense to me. And the fact that she's skirting around the issue and can't get to the point concerns me a lot. Her reaction is not the typical reaction of a mother who has a missing child."

I don't even know how to express myself about this, but it seems to me that newspeople on television seem to give themselves a great deal more importance than their jobs would suggest, and most of them either seem to think that they're movie stars, or prosecutors--Ms. Grace seems to think she's both.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's the place of a television news presenter to put herself in a position of prosecuting a crime, even to the point of driving her victim to suicide. But I don't think so. I think it's wrong, and disgraceful.

JON CARROLL:

I very much fear that Alice is going to have go through the five stages of grieving, which include anger, denial, bargaining, Sleepy and Doc.