The Super Bowl Will Kill You

“No, you shouldn’t be checking your pulse every five minutes during the Super Bowl. You can enjoy it. Jumping up and down and high-fiving is probably good, because at least you’re getting some physical activity. It’s the bad behaviors — the eating nachos and pizza and drinking too much — that need to be avoided.”
 — ,Stanford cardiologist Dipanjan Banerjee offers some perspective in one of those annual Super Bowl scare stories. Anyway, be careful out there; the game is a stressful event which may very well destroy your big fat fucking heart. [Via]