Given that just about everything one can possibly eat seems to be bad for you, I'm not sure if Dr. Jackson Blair was a crackpot or ahead of his time with his theory that mustard is the secret cause of heart disease.
But for Blair, mustard was just the tip of the iceberg. It was "part of a wider theory that condiments—pepper, ginger, mustard and mayonnaise, which contains mustard—cause hypertension."
As with everything, I suspect how much of it one eats might play a role.
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Palladium-Item and Sun-Telegram - Sep 2, 1965
In the early 20th century, it was widely believed that dirty bathrooms were a primary cause of the spread of disease, particularly sexual disease. One result of this belief, apparently, was the adoption of U-shaped toilet seats in public bathrooms, since it was thought that these were more hygienic.
Read more about this at
The Weeklings.
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Life - Sep 20 1937
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The out of control anti
vaccination movement shows just how damaging junk science and the belief that being famous make someone knowledgeable can be. One flawed and discredited study made an incorrect claim about a vaccination/autism link, and the claim was erroneously validated by celebrity hubris. It is far more advantageous to take medical advice from doctors than from a Playboy bunny especially where children are concerned. Now the public's own stupidity may well serve as population control, why else would our government refuse to make vaccination mandatory again as it was when I was a child?
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People are getting salmonella from cuddling
chickens because apparently that's a thing now. Just another Darwinesque way to thin the herd.
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France has enacted a law limiting excessively thin models from working until their
BMI reaches a minimum level set forth in the law. Fines and even jail time can be leveled against fashion houses and modeling agents trying to use models that are thinner than the law allows. Its about time we quit letting vanity destroy our little girls.
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Scientists recreated a thousand year old medicinal
remedy to study its efficacy and got a big surprise. The mixture, which includes cow bile, garlic, leeks and wine, kills the antibiotic resistant staph infection MRSA.
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Picture one is a child with measles. Picture two is a child with smallpox. The only study to vilify vaccines has been completely debunked and yet supposedly loving and intelligent parents are denying their children the protection of vaccinations. These people also put others at risk with this irresponsible choice. The
scientific community is at a loss as to how to reverse this dangerous trend. Meanwhile pop culture icons weigh in on a subject they have no expertise about and influence decisions that damage society as a whole and children especially.
Government needs to step in for public safety before these diseases take hold in the general population unnecessarily. Parents are being threatened with having their children taken away for letting them walk to the park unaccompanied yet refusing the protection of vaccinations is being allowed. We are down the rabbit hole on this issue.
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Heart attacks increase 25% the Monday after
spring ahead and decrease by 21% the Monday after fall behind.
Frozen poop pills?!? Yes, that is what they are using to treat Clostridium difficile, or C diff, a bacteria that when over abundant in the bowel causes debilitating diarrhea. Samples of feces from a healthy donor with a good bacterial balance in the bowel are put in capsules that are acid resistant and frozen. The capsule is acid resistant so it will not dissolve before carrying the good bacteria to the intestines where it is needed. It is frozen to make it easier for the patient to swallow. The treatment has been very successful and that is great, but I have one word for the Doctors involved: suppositories!
Those crazy mixed-up kids and their wacky venereal diseases....