More Overweight?
Pakistan is reporting that every fouth one of them is overweight. I also ran across a news story where another third world country is growing fat, although they still host a lot of starving people and children.
You know, maybe just maybe, our bodies are trying to prepare for some kind of natural disaster or world calamity , where food will be scarce and people with a bit of fat on them will have the advantage over the very thin for survival.
It’s just a thought. Since it’s one country right after another who is growing concerned enough to make a news story out of it.
Maybe we should give Mother Nature and our bodies the benefit of the doubt and look into it.
MRSA Is Alive And Doing Well
England has just reported that the aggressive super bug MRSA has claimed the lives of a patient and health care worker at a hospital.
Antibiotics are useless against this strain and it can produce a deadly pneumonia in patients and kill them within 24 hours.
It is mostly found in nursing homes where it attacks the frail elderly and can easily transmit to health care providers.
When I was an Activity Director at a home I had to gear up to enter isolation where the patients with MRSA were kept. There were never many at all, because we were so careful with the isolation and undressing procedures upon finishing our therapies.
MRSA is dangerous and nothing to fool around with.
Why Teens Do Stupid Things
A new research says that teens actually think over the risk of trying new things more than adults do. However they are more likely to cave in to peer pressure which is why they are more likely to have unprotected sex, do drugs, and commit criminal acts.
Compared to adults, teens take about 170 milliseconds more weighing the pros and cons of engaging in high-risk behavior, the researchers conclude. Adults scarcely think about risk, perhaps because they think they recognize risk intuitively. Teens, on the other hand, take time to mull the risk vs. benefit equation.
“In other words, more experienced decision-makers tend to rely more on fuzzy reasoning, processing situations and problems as gists [the essence of their actions] rather than weighing multiple factors,” Reyna said.
Eli Lily In Trouble
There is documented proof that Eli Lily had their sales reps, convince doctors to prescribe the drug Zyprexa for patients who were elderly and showing signs of dementia,even though the FDA has not only not approved the drug for that use, but has said it could be dangerous for elderly patients.
This drug is for people who suffer from schizophrenia or bipolar disease.
Update On Breast Cancer
If you’ve had breast cancer and your tumor growth was not hormone driven, there is good news for you. It has been determined a lo-fat diet will help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer. If only it all were that easily solved!
Smart Kids Become Vegans?
They have done a study of intelligent children and have found that more of them, then their less intelligent counterparts, become vegetarians as adults.
Let’s finish that thought for them. I guess that they are saying that vegans as adults are more intelligent than us Neanderthal meat eaters.
Could it be that vegans conducted this study? Or could it be that meat eaters will just be seen as stupid from now on?
Product Recall In The UK
Several store chains in the UK are recalling some brands of frozen meals because they may have glass in them.
Rye Valley Foods make the meals. Twenty packages have been found to contain tiny round pieces of glass in the rice compartments. They have reported no injuries as of yet.
They are recalling over 20,000 meals to be on the safe side. The meals are the chicken curry and the sweet and sour chicken.
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Olive Garden Takes A Bath
The olive garden restaurant that has had over 300 people sick had closed it’s doors shortly afterward. Now workers are “feverishly” scrubbing and disinfecting the restaurant from floor to ceiling. I hope they’re using bleach!
300 Allegedly Sickened From Olive Garden
It’s becoming harder and harder to want to eat out in recent times. Almost every week you turn on the news and a staggering number of people has gotten sick from one restaurant or another. It’s hard to even blame the eateries because many of it is vegetables. So far the investigation is still ongoing and the source has not been found, but I believe it will once again be something related to veggies and you have to wonder what on earth is going on at the farms.
The restaurant has been closed while health officials and the company investigate what caused customers to complain of nausea, vomiting, fever and diarrhea, a company spokesman said.
Steve Coe, a spokesman for the Orlando, Fla.-based chain of Italian restaurants, said health officials are focusing on an employee who had flu-like symptoms similar to those patrons complained of.
Olive Garden
More than 300 people have become ill after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis over the weekend.
The health department has agreed to let the restaurant stay open for the time being, and of course everyone is scrambling to do tests to find the cause of the illnesses.