A little bird tweeted us to the fact that (gasp!) a vegan diet might keep you alive longer. You know, in case you've got some books that still need reading or something.

Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers are more likely than other groups to die from strokes and heart disease - something to do with the disease doing something to the arteries - so the group that looks after rheumatoid arthritis decided to look into ways to reduce their risk of strokes and heart disease. Apparently just for them. How selfish, eh?

Anyway, as it turns out, a vegan diet had the best results in reducing levels of the "bad" cholesterol (they've got to give that cholesterol a better name. Like Mortimer. And a mustache. Anyway.) The Arthritis Research and Therapy organization published the study, focusing on how a vegan diet could help their people.

Could this possibly work for other people without arthritis? Probably, but you can tell there was a bit of a debate internally: the charity also says that "A vegan diet may be helpful in reducing cholesterol, but it is difficult to get enough of some important nutrients on a vegan diet." Dude, what nutrients are you talking about? Ignorant? Ugly? Oh wait, those aren't nutrients. Sorry, I was distracted by all that being brilliant and good looking. Anyway, it's 2008. Isn't it about time that people realized that a balanced diet is just as easy (or just as hard, depending on where the water is in your glass) to achieve on a vegan diet as it is on a meat-based diet? You can probably research that with all that extra time you'll have from not being dead because you followed the vegan diet that they talked about in the study.