Dial Denial

It's time to get a landline, because it might just decrease my rampant binge-drinking.

In and article entitled, "More Americans Drink And Dial On Cell Phones: Is the U.S. turning into a wireless, drunken nation?" Channel Matters reported on a recent CDC study connecting binge drinking and cell phone use:

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control released Wednesday found that more than one in every five Americans are now using only mobile phones, and pulling the plugs on their landlines. The study also found that Americans who choose to use only mobile phones also are more likely to be binge drinkers.

It continues:

Results from the July through December 2008 study also found that for some reason, the prevalence of binge drinking (defined as having five or more alcoholic drinks in one day during the past year) among wireless-only adults (36.7 percent) was nearly twice as high as the prevalence among adults living in households that had landline phones only (19.7 percent).

Five drinks in one day over the past year? It's a good thing they didn't do this poll at a college, where no one has a landline and many drink that much at least once a week. Oh, wait... The CDC might be onto something... But seriously, five drinks in one day in the past 365 days? If we measured obesity by how much food a person ate one one day in the last year, I'd be screwed.

My post-erg marathon (42,195 meters) meal:

1. Bacon, tomato, and cheese egg-white omelette
2. Bagel with cream cheese
3. Belgian waffle with syrup
   
4. Bowl of cereal
5. Homefries
   
6. Banana
7. Glass of chocolate milk
8. Glass of orange juice
9. Glass of cranberry juice
10. 2 Glasses of water

I must be so fat. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I'm a neurotic e-mail checker.

But I misled you a bit:

No further information was released about these findings and the CDC didn't attempt to explain the correlation between binge drinking and cell phone-only usage.

For that matter, so did Channel Matters, which just goes to show that if it bleeds, it leads, even if if the headline (sub-header, in this case) lies to you.

Have a good one, I'm going to go have less than five beers and call my friends on my cell.