New Yorkers Live Longer

Counter-intuitively our rage, and our bagels, keep us alive longer than folks out there in the bosky heartland dell.

http://nymag.com/news/features/35815/?ftr-promo

 

Maybe the Jersey pollution has given y'all a better immune system.

 

And if you elect me president, I will increase the national life expectancy as well. [/Rudy Giuliani]

 

We get our topflight immune systems from riding the subway. It's like a giant mobile Petri dish. Back above ground, breathing a healthy blend of formaldehyde, napthalene and roasted garlic probably helps preserve us.

 

Mostly the garlic, jg.

 

Without reading the article, I'd give four reasons:

1) you can walk everywhere and often you have to walk quickly

2) proximity to health care -- you can usually find a doctor withing a couple of blocks of work and/or home, so going to the doctor isn't as big of a deal.

3) tons of gyms within a few blocks of work or home.

4) easy to find healthy food at any hour.

 

All true, Webster.

But don't forget the therapeutic value of

5) the egg cream.

 

I think it's a result of drinking unicorn blood.

But it's a life worse than death.

 

Not true. The last unicorn in New York was gunned down outside Umberto's Clam House in 1971.

A life worse than death? Only on the days Katz's runs out of brisket.

 

seriously, jg, when is the last time you had an egg cream?

 

I make 'em at home. So Saturday, I think.

 

I thought it was the elixir they got from the stone they stole.