There's always a dark side, isn't there?:
If a high-fat cholesterol-laden snack doesn't trigger a heart attack, then a healthy economy just might.
The risk of a fatal heart attack rises when the U.S. economy strengthens and increases further if macroeconomic conditions remain robust over the next several years, according to a study published last month.
The death rate rises in the year the economy expands and grows further if the lower rate of joblessness is maintained, Christopher Ruhm wrote in his study.
Evidently when times are good, people work more and exercise less. A good long-term economic disaster might be just the ticket to get us back into our fighting, Depression-era trim. I know one of my uncles used to cry so hard that roach-infested government corn-on-the-cob was going to be his only meal that day, that he could scarcely eat it. Little did he know that that was only his natural sense of good health speaking to him, telling him not to fill up on cheap starch.
UPDATE:
Yesterday's parody becomes today's news.