Researchers say spam can be good for you
 

Spam can help prod people to better health - study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spam can be good for you if it comes as a steady stream of e-mails nagging about healthy habits, Canadian researchers said on Thursday.

People who were spammed about healthy eating and keeping active, tended to exercise and lose weight, according to the researchers at the University of Alberta.

For 12 weeks, Dr. Ron Plotnikoff and colleagues sent weekly e-mail reminders to some volunteers at five large Canadian workplaces who were taking part in a larger study about exercise and health. More than 1,600 completed the full study.

Writing in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Plotnikoff said those who received the e-mail reminders exercised more and knew more about the benefits than those who did not.

They also reduced their mean body mass index, or BMI, a measure of body fat based on height and weight.

Those who did not get the e-mails actually gained some weight over the three-month study.

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Nah, what a bad study

"your honour, i didn't spam to make money... i did it to save lives." - Defendant :1orglaugh

ps... yes i meant honour and not honor :winkwink:

Well according to my spam, everybody is going in July and I am going to be a wealthy man due to being popular with royalty from many island nations.:tongue:

How the heck is that spam if those dudes volunteered ?

Spam everyone on the net... at least 60 times

... a day

hehe :)

Seriously though, spammers do make a lot of people's lives better. I'm sure a lot of adult males are embarrassed to go to the doctor for Cialis and stuff like that. And hey, who doesn't want to get out of debt or refinance their high interest mortgage? :winkwink:

Haha, great point. :)

well, you don't need spammer to nag at you, you can just get married ;)

I bet they're spammers themselves ;)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh