Tag: Health
The Suprising Truth About Sanitizing Your Groceries
You can always overdo something. For items I think like cans salad bottles, jars etc should be lightly disinfected with Clorox wipes but that’s it. BEFORE coronavirus I washed my tops from my condiments off with soap and water. And took the rag and wipe the outside of the jar or bottle of ketchup etc. that simple
Mouth cancer rates reach record high: Is oral sex to blame?
Oral cancer rates “have more than doubled in a generation,” according to a new awareness campaign by the Brit-based nonprofit Oral Health Foundation.
Over the past 20 years, mouth cancer diagnoses have skyrocketed 135 percent in the UK. In 2018 alone, seven people died every day from the disease out of a total 8,337 patients in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
US rates are comparable: According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, there are about 54,000 Americans diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer (including the larynx) every year, with at least one patient dying per hour every day, causing approximately 13,500 deaths per year.
The hygiene advocacy group warned people to be aware of the causes of mouth cancer — primarily the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), drinking alcohol and smoking.
Dr. Nigel Carter, chief executive of the OHF, told the Daily Mail, “While most cancers are on the decrease, cases of mouth cancer continue to rise at an alarming rate.”
He added that HPV is considered an “emerging risk factor” compared to “traditional” causes like smoking and boozing. According to their report, HPV causes an estimated 73 percent of oropharyngeal mouth cancers.
It’s not the first time the STI has been linked to cancer in a high-profile way.
Actor Michael Douglas, 75, infamously blamed his throat cancer diagnosis on his fondness for oral intercourse. (Though the actor and husband of Catherine Zeta-Jones, 50, later backpedaled on that claim.) HPV can cause other cancers related to sex acts as well, such as with “Desperate Housewives” actress Marcia Cross, 57, who became an awareness advocate after being diagnosed with anal cancer.
Beyond sex, having more than 10 alcoholic drinks per week causes approximately 33 percent of diagnoses, the OHF reports. Smoking is tied to about 17 percent of cases, while increasing your individual risk of disease by 91 percent.
In the US, the five-year survival rate for cancer in the oral cavity is about 57 percent. Those who live through it could have to do so without a tongue or jaw.
Carter called mouth cancer a “devastating” disease: “It changes how somebody speaks, it makes eating and drinking more difficult and often changes a person’s physical appearance.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/mouth-cancer-rates-reach-record-high-is-oral-sex-to-blame/
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Energy drink addiction left mom with pacemaker at 32
A British mom is speaking out about the dangers of energy drinks after developing an addiction “worse than that of heroin” that left her on the verge of diabetes and forcing her to get a pacemaker — all by the time she was 32.
“The drinks made my heart beat faster, which would cause palpitations, then after I would crash when I needed another one,” Samantha Sharpe told Leicestershire Live. “It would give me headaches, I’d be grumpy, and I’d need another one to keep me good.
“I felt like an addict to the stuff.”
The mom-of-three started pounding five to six of the sugar-packed drinks every day starting in 2014 to keep up with her childcare and her then-job as a cleaner.
“I have three children and I work so it was daily life that pushed me to drinking the energy drinks,” Sharpe told the outlet. “I work in the evenings so it got me through the day.”
But Sharpe’s body grew dependent on the drinks, leaving her plagued by insomnia and constantly in search of her next sip.
“I wouldn’t sleep and I had an overwhelming feeling of doom when trying to sleep,” she said. “It’s something I haven’t experienced before, which made me want another one.”
Sharpe began to suffer kidney stones, and was told she was on the precipice of Type Two diabetes — but it was the blackouts that finally made her see the light.
“I went to the doctor over a year ago because I kept blacking out at home,” recalled Sharpe. “I had a first-degree heart blockage and it then extended to second degree.”
Sharpe had a pacemaker implanted through a vein in her leg.
“My sister, who is a nurse, said the addiction is worse than that of heroin, which I can understand because I needed it to help me be awake,” said Sharpe.
Now 33, working as a bartender and off the sugary stuff, Sharpe “has a new lease on life,” and wants to make sure no one else goes through what she did.
“The effects of energy drinks need to be advertised more,” she told Leicestershire Live. “I think everyone knows they aren’t good for you — but no one has ever said why they aren’t.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/energy-drink-addiction-left-mom-with-pacemaker-at-32/
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Parents film newborn baby girl being dropped on head by doctor: ‘Treated like a sack of potatoes’
Derrick and Monique Rodgers say they weren’t looking for much after he captured hospital staff dropping their newborn baby on its head moments after birth. An apology would have sufficed.
Instead, Chandler Regional Medical Center in Arizona has given them the runaround and they decided to share the video publicly.
The couple’s twins, Morgan and Madison, were born premature on Valentine’s Day. Just moments after Morgan’s birth, Derrick Rodgers filmed a member of the medical staff dropping the baby on her head on a table. Another staffer quickly grabbed the child to prevent her from falling on the floor.
“It made me so mad. Like, I had to stop recording,” Derrick Rodgers told Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV.
The incident was literally just a few seconds, but the baby’s mother said she promised herself she “would never watch that video again.”
The twin girls are both home and there are no serious concerns about Morgan’s health, according to their parents.
(MORE: ‘Hero’ girl kept baby brother alive after parents’ apparent murder-suicide)
Derrick Rodgers said he later approached the doctor, but he ignored his concern.
“I told him, ‘You dropped my baby,'” he said, recalling the encounter in an interview with KNXV. “He had like a nonchalant look on his face. Then I showed him the video, and he had nothing to say after that.”
The family did not even receive an apology from Chandler Regional Medical Center.
“An apology when it happened could’ve gone a long way,” said Monique Rodgers.
They later found out Morgan was given an ultrasound and had suffered a germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH), or bleeding in the brain. The Rodgers, who have two older children, weren’t told of the ultrasound until six weeks after it was taken, they said.
GMH is not uncommon in babies born prematurely and it may have had nothing to do with the drop.
Derrick and Monique Rodgers say they weren’t looking for much after he captured hospital staff dropping their newborn baby on its head moments after birth. An apology would have sufficed.
Instead, Chandler Regional Medical Center in Arizona has given them the runaround and they decided to share the video publicly.
The couple’s twins, Morgan and Madison, were born premature on Valentine’s Day. Just moments after Morgan’s birth, Derrick Rodgers filmed a member of the medical staff dropping the baby on her head on a table. Another staffer quickly grabbed the child to prevent her from falling on the floor.
Monique and Derrick Rodgers shared video of doctors at a Chandler, Ariz., hospital dropping one of their twins moments after birth in February.more +
“It made me so mad. Like, I had to stop recording,” Derrick Rodgers told Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV.
The incident was literally just a few seconds, but the baby’s mother said she promised herself she “would never watch that video again.”
The twin girls are both home and there are no serious concerns about Morgan’s health, according to their parents.
Derrick Rodgers said he later approached the doctor, but he ignored his concern.
“I told him, ‘You dropped my baby,'” he said, recalling the encounter in an interview with KNXV. “He had like a nonchalant look on his face. Then I showed him the video, and he had nothing to say after that.”
The family did not even receive an apology from Chandler Regional Medical Center.
“An apology when it happened could’ve gone a long way,” said Monique Rodgers.
They later found out Morgan was given an ultrasound and had suffered a germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH), or bleeding in the brain. The Rodgers, who have two older children, weren’t told of the ultrasound until six weeks after it was taken, they said.
GMH is not uncommon in babies born prematurely and it may have had nothing to do with the drop.
Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., said it was taking video of a doctor dropping a newborn baby “extremely seriously.”more +
Still, the couple worries about shaking the baby has developed and have made plans to see a neurologist.
“I feel like she was treated like a sack of potatoes,” Monique Rodgers said.
(MORE: Kids II recalls inclined sleepers linked to 5 baby deaths)
The hospital cannot comment publicly on the incident due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but did say it took the incident “extremely seriously.”
“Because of patient privacy laws and a request from the family not to release information, we are unable to comment specifically on this matter,” Chandler Regional Medical Center said in a statement to KNXV. “The safety of our patients and their families is always our top concern. The medical team at Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center takes this matter extremely seriously and is working to conduct a comprehensive review.”
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Derrick and Monique Rodgers say they weren’t looking for much after he captured hospital staff dropping their newborn baby on its head moments after birth. An apology would have sufficed.
Instead, Chandler Regional Medical Center in Arizona has given them the runaround and they decided to share the video publicly.
The couple’s twins, Morgan and Madison, were born premature on Valentine’s Day. Just moments after Morgan’s birth, Derrick Rodgers filmed a member of the medical staff dropping the baby on her head on a table. Another staffer quickly grabbed the child to prevent her from falling on the floor.
PHOTO: Monique and Derrick Rodgers shared video of doctors at a Chandler, Ariz., hospital dropping one of their twins moments after birth in February. KNXV
Monique and Derrick Rodgers shared video of doctors at a Chandler, Ariz., hospital dropping one of their twins moments after birth in February.more +
“It made me so mad. Like, I had to stop recording,” Derrick Rodgers told Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV.
The incident was literally just a few seconds, but the baby’s mother said she promised herself she “would never watch that video again.”
The twin girls are both home and there are no serious concerns about Morgan’s health, according to their parents.
(MORE: ‘Hero’ girl kept baby brother alive after parents’ apparent murder-suicide)
Derrick Rodgers said he later approached the doctor, but he ignored his concern.
“I told him, ‘You dropped my baby,'” he said, recalling the encounter in an interview with KNXV. “He had like a nonchalant look on his face. Then I showed him the video, and he had nothing to say after that.”
PHOTO: A doctor dropped Monique and Derrick Rodgers baby just moments after it was born in Chandler, Ariz., in February. KNXV
A doctor dropped Monique and Derrick Rodgers’ baby just moments after it was born in Chandler, Ariz., in February.more +
The family did not even receive an apology from Chandler Regional Medical Center.
“An apology when it happened could’ve gone a long way,” said Monique Rodgers.
(MORE: Authorities arrest suspect in 1972 cold case of woman murdered with baby in arms)
They later found out Morgan was given an ultrasound and had suffered a germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH), or bleeding in the brain. The Rodgers, who have two older children, weren’t told of the ultrasound until six weeks after it was taken, they said.
GMH is not uncommon in babies born prematurely and it may have had nothing to do with the drop.
PHOTO: Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., said it was taking video of a doctor dropping a newborn baby extremely seriously. KNXV
Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., said it was taking video of a doctor dropping a newborn baby “extremely seriously.”more +
Still, the couple worries about shaking the baby has developed and have made plans to see a neurologist.
“I feel like she was treated like a sack of potatoes,” Monique Rodgers said.
(MORE: Kids II recalls inclined sleepers linked to 5 baby deaths)
The hospital cannot comment publicly on the incident due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but did say it took the incident “extremely seriously.”
“Because of patient privacy laws and a request from the family not to release information, we are unable to comment specifically on this matter,” Chandler Regional Medical Center said in a statement to KNXV. “The safety of our patients and their families is always our top concern. The medical team at Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center takes this matter extremely seriously and is working to conduct a comprehensive review.”
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Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
Burger King is introducing a Whopper made with a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Would you like that Whopper with or without beef?
This week, Burger King is introducing a version of its iconic Whopper sandwich filled with a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods.
The Impossible Whopper, as it will be known, is the biggest validation — and expansion opportunity — for a young industry that is looking to mimic and replace meat with plant-based alternatives.
Impossible Foods and its competitors in Silicon Valley have already had some mainstream success. The vegetarian burger made by Beyond Meat has been available at over a thousand Carl’s Jr. restaurants since January and the company is now moving toward an initial public offering.
White Castle has sold a slider version of the Impossible burger in its 380 or so stores since late last year.
But a national rollout at Burger King’s 7,200 locations would dwarf those previous announcements and more than double the total number of locations where Impossible’s burgers are available.
Burger King’s chief marketing officer, Fernando Machado, said that in the company’s testing so far, customers and even employees had not been able to tell the difference between the old meaty Whopper and the new one.
“People on my team who know the Whopper inside and out, they try it and they struggle to differentiate which one is which,” Mr. Machado said.
Burger King is initially making the Impossible Whopper available at 59 restaurants in the St. Louis area. Mr. Machado said the company had plans to quickly expand it to every branch in the country if everything in St. Louis goes smoothly.
“I have high expectations that it’s going to be big business, not just a niche product,” Mr. Machado said.
The Impossible Whopper creates an interesting alliance between a fast-food chain that promotes its devotion to beef on every Whopper wrapper (“100% Beef With No Fillers”) and a start-up that is committed to getting people to stop eating beef.
Read more via NYTimes
Disneyland tower likely source of 22 cases of Legionnaires’ disease, official testifies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A health official testified that a cooling tower that provides mist to make Disneyland visitors comfortable was the likely source for 22 cases in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak last year near the theme park.
Dr. Matthew Zahn with the Orange County Health Care Agency testified Tuesday before an appeals board judge at the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The Los Angeles Times reports Zahn said tests around the time of the outbreak showed high levels of Legionella bacteria in two Disneyland cooling towers.
He said contaminated droplets likely spread to people in the park and beyond.
Disneyland is appealing state fines, saying the outbreak’s source was not scientifically determined.
Upon questioning, Zahn said he could not be 100 percent certain that Disneyland was the source without additional testing.
Article via USAToday
Kellogg’s announce cereal recall due to potential presence of Salmonella
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – FDA officials announced Thursday that Kellogg’s is recalling some of its “Honey Smacks” cereal due to a potential presence of Salmonella.
According to a statement, the products affected include the 15.3 oz and 23 oz packages of the cereal, with “best of used by date” of June 14 2018 through June 14, 2019. Kellogg’s launched an investigation with a third-party manufacturer that produced the cereals, immediately after they were contacted by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control regarding reported illnesses. People who have bought the cereal should throw it away, and contact the company for a full refund.
Source: http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/kellogg-s-announce-cereal-recall-due-to-potential-presence-of-salmonella
DID YOU KNOW THAT A SLAVE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INOCULATION PROCEDURE USED TO TREAT SMALL POX?
These racists screaming go back to… Need to check themselves because without Brown and Black folks they’d be DEAD!
Onesimus (fl. 1706 – 1717), slave and medical pioneer, was born in the late seventeenth century, probably in Africa, although the precise date and place of his birth are unknown. He first appears in the historical record in the diary of Cotton Mather, a prominent New England theologian and minister of Boston’s Old North Church. Reverend Mather notes in a diary entry for 13 December 1706 that members of his congregation purchased for him “a very likely Slave; a young Man who is a Negro of a promising aspect of temper” (Mather, vol. 1, 579). Mather named him Onesimus, after a biblical slave who escaped from his master, an early Christian named Philemon.
Little is known of Onesimus after he purchased his freedom, but in 1721 Cotton Mather used information he had learned five years earlier from his former slave to combat a devastating smallpox epidemic that was then sweeping Boston. In a 1716 letter to the Royal Society of London, Mather proposed “ye Method of Inoculation” as the best means of curing smallpox and noted that he had learned of this process from “my Negro-Man Onesimus, who is a pretty Intelligent Fellow” (Winslow, 33). Onesimus explained that he had
undergone an Operation, which had given him something of ye Small-Pox, and would forever preserve him from it, adding, That it was often used among [Africans] and whoever had ye Courage to use it, was forever free from ye Fear of the Contagion. He described ye Operation to me, and showed me in his Arm ye Scar.” (Winslow, 33)
Reports of similar practices in Turkey further persuaded Mather to mount a public inoculation campaign. Most white doctors rejected this process of deliberately infecting a person with smallpox–now called variolation–in part because of their misgivings about African medical knowledge. Public and medical opinion in Boston was strongly against both Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, the only doctor in town willing to perform inoculations; one opponent even threw a grenade into Mather’s home. A survey of the nearly six thousand people who contracted smallpox between 1721 and 1723 found, however, that Onesimus, Mather, and Boylston had been right. Only 2 percent of the six hundred Bostonians inoculated against smallpox died, while 14 percent of those who caught the disease but were not inoculated succumbed to the illness.
It is unclear when or how Onesimus died, but his legacy is unambiguous. His knowledge of variolation gives the lie to one justification for enslaving Africans, namely, white Europeans’ alleged superiority in medicine, science, and technology. This bias made the smallpox epidemic of 1721 more deadly than it need have been. Bostonians and other Americans nonetheless adopted the African practice of inoculation in future smallpox outbreaks, and variolation remained the most effective means of treating the disease until the development of vaccination by Edward Jenner in 1796.
via: http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/onesimus-fl-1706-1717-slave-and-medical-pioneer-was-born
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Did You Know That A Slave Was Responsible For The Inoculation Procedure Used To Treat Small Pox?
Toronto couple took man’s baby as their own while keeping him hostage for more than 20 years
A Toronto couple is accused of keeping a homeless man with mental disabilities hostage for nearly 25 years while claiming his son as their own.
Gary Willett Sr. and his wife, Maria, are on separate trials in Canada for a slew of charges that exposed a bizarre, twisted tale involving stolen identities, beatings and an eventual escape.
The case goes back to 1989, when the couple found Tim Goldrick scrounging for food in downtown Toronto. The Willetts found Goldrick and his romantic partner, Barbara Bennett, in an apartment in their building, according to the Toronto Star, which reviewed weeks of court testimony.
In September 1989, Bennett went into the hospital to deliver her son with Goldrick. Maria Willett helped Bennett fill out the paperwork and let her use her insurance card.
“I figured if I didn’t (use Maria’s card) I’d probably get hit,” Bennett testified, according to the Star. “At that time, I didn’t know if it was wrong or not.”
Willett Sr. disagreed with the sequence of events, saying his wife wasn’t at the Toronto hospital.
The baby wound up on the birth certificate as Gary Willett Jr. and the Willetts listed as his parents.
The couple had already adopted two children, but told people Gary Jr. was their biological son.
They continued living with Goldrick and Bennett, moving around several times before settling at a home in Toronto’s North York section.
It was at that home that Willett really began abusing Goldrick and Bennett, who according to the Star had learning disabilities and collected government welfare checks.
“I would get hit and get told to do it again. Clean it up. Clean up the mess,” Bennett reportedly testified about Maria Willett’s treatment. “I would get slapped. In the face . . . Three or four (slaps) depending on how mad she was.”
She became pregnant in 1993, according to the Star, from a relationship she had with Willett Sr.’s brother.
Bennett had the baby, Billie-Jean, later that year and soon decided to leave the home.
Goldrick was forced to stay with the family, especially after they moved again.
He was made to live in a tiny section of the Willett’s basement while they raised his son, the Star reported. Willett Sr. would monitor the home through seven surveillance cameras he’d set up.
Goldrick later testified he was severely beaten, especially if he took food out of the refrigerator, which had a camera on it, according to the Star.
“Sometimes, while I was sleeping, Gary (Sr.) would come in and hit me for no reason, and I’d wake up and I wondered why he did this,” he testified. “But I never found out why.”
He told the court he was forced to eat dog food, which Willett Sr. testified he told Goldrick not to do.
The 6-foot-3 Goldrick’s weight at one point shriveled down to 106 lbs., the Star reported. His teeth also severely decayed.
Goldrick’s $900 disability check mostly went to cover rent and food, Willett Sr. testified.
Willett Jr. — who’d one seen Goldrick spitting up blood — was unaware of what was really going on, but had his own problems, according to the Star.
He left home a few years after dropping out of high school.
A visit home five years ago turned sour, and Willett Jr. was later told by relatives that Goldrick was actually his father. His parents said that wasn’t true.
Willett Jr., out driving with a friend, later spotted Goldrick walking on the sidewalk during one of his rarely allowed trips out of the home.
“And we said, ‘Listen, Tim, if you want out and you want a better life, then you come with us now,’” Willett Jr. testified.
After some slight coaxing Goldrick got in the car and left for good.
One of Maria Willett’s biological children in 2014 got in touch with Billie-Jean Bennett, the baby born to Barbara Bennett in 1993, according to the Star.
She found out what happened and connected with her half-brother, Willett Jr.
But he told the Toronto Star he no longer speaks with his biological mother because she’s not forthcoming with the facts.
“Not once did my real mother go looking for me,” Willett Jr. told the newspaper.
Goldrick now lives with his biological son in a Toronto apartment, where he still struggles with the trauma.
“I take pills for the shakes and nighttime pills for sleep,” he told the Star. “I have nightmares because of this.”
via: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/couple-man-baby-hostage-20-years-article-1.3597521