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It was the perfect attention-grabbing headline:
“Eating fried potatoes linked to higher risk of death,” CNN announced last week.
Not true.
Actually, the lifetime risk of death for people who eat french fried potatoes is 100 percent.
Ditto for breathers of fresh air, vegetarians, yoga practitioners, triathletes and cardiologists. The lifetime risk of mortality for human beings in Chattanooga, Tenn. – notwithstanding fried potato intake – is 100 percent, plain and simple.