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Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health Apparently stopping death or irreparable damage from a heart attack could be as simple as inflating a blood pressure cuff. This according to a recent Danish (The Country) study. How does it work and why does no one seem to know about this? Well, it is thought that a brief stoppage [...] Source: BBC Health; PNAS (no laughing) Journal The Journal for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has published a study on lingering tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). Researchers in Berkeley, California (say no more Berkeley) have found “substantial” concentrations of toxins upon substances exposed to tobacco products. What sort of substances? Clothing, furniture and wallpaper for starters. [...] Source: American Physiological Society (APS) Podcast Ho! Ho! Aaaacckkk… Kidding! Well, sort of. Cardiac deaths rise 33% from November to January with peaks on Christmas and New Year’s Day. This according to medical researchers in Los Angeles, so it’s not the stress of cold temperatures on the heart. So what is it then? Stress. According to [...] Source: Journal PLos One; BBC Health Those grey hairs you are plucking (if you are lucky) or dyeing may not be caused by the stressors in your life. “Yeah, whatever,” you say? A Danish study (This one was cherry) of more than 200 twin sisters (identical and not) aged 59-80 conducted by Unilever scientists had found no [...] Source: BBC Health; Stress Research Institute, Stockholm 2,755 working men in Stockholm (the city, not the syndrome) were studied between 1992 and 1995. 47 of those in the study died from a heart attack or complications of heart disease. While the study considered the traditional factors, over age 41, high BP, high BMI, smoking, drinking and [...] Source: FDA; Biennial Meeting of the ISSC (Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference) Surely with all of us dying in mass from H1N1 (do I have to?), AIDS and numerous other maladies, the FDA needed to take action against the barbaric practice of…eating raw oysters (gasp!) Why pick on the humble oyster, long a seafood staple and extensively harvested [...] Source: US Department of Justice Press Release United States Federal Prosecutors have been directed to stop marijuana-related prosecutions in the current States (14 of them) in which the medical use of marijuana has been “legalized.” The Federal Government has wisely (legally speaking anyway) decided that it is antithetical and a waste of funding to interfere with State [...] Source: US Food & Drug Administration The FDA has officially banned the sale of cigarettes containing fruit, candy or clove flavors. The ban is associated with a national effort to reduce smoking in America via the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. It is clear from both the ban and the message from the FDA that [...] Source: From across the pond (BBC) and back I know, as parents we need another reason to feel guilty over the damage we do raising our children. It’s not bad enough that they aren’t getting the best nutrition available or the best education, now we can also apparently stress them into developing health conditions! Results of [...] |
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