Random Facts

[MAKAVELI]

Less meat? more fish?

As long as it's not stinky fish.

 

[moreluck]

Plenty are overweight but the "majority"? That seems like a lot....just sayin.

Via WFB
The federal government is still seeking answers as to why the majority of lesbians are obese and U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, which now totals $2.87 million.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) study is now in its fourth year, receiving an additional $670,567 for fiscal year 2014. The project seeks to determine why “nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese,” and why gay males are not.
In just two years the project’s budget has nearly doubled, growing from $1.5 million to nearly $3 million today, despite fears that sequestration could jeopardize the project and other NIH funding.
The study, which is being led by S. Bryn Austin, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, operates on the premise that there is a “striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities.”
The researchers have been busier since last year, when the project had yielded only one paper. Those results concluded that gay and bisexual males had a “greater desire for toned muscles” than straight men.

 

[moreluck]

“ovarian cancer accounts for about 3% of cancers ...

 

[oldngray]

http://bolid.es/

 

[DS]

There are salt mines along the Canada/US border.
I thought this was weird.The salt is from ancient dried up oceans.
Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Salt_Mine

 

[moreluck]

Happy 47th Anniversary, love our journey together !!

 

[oldngray]

 

[moreluck]

Today is officially the first day of Fall.......I put out my wreath and my pumpkins and now I'm good 'til Thangsgiving time. No jack-o-lanterns to limit me to Hallowen only!

 

[moreluck]

Kohls.............30% off coupon..............60-70% off sales........I did some damage!! None of it clothing.

 

[moreluck]

I had this happen to me. I was actually having too much water. Trying to do the right thing. I went to the doctor because hubby thought I was having a stroke. My left eye closed and I lost all my energy.

A blood test showed my potassium was at dangerously low levels. The report actually used the word "critical" levels..
The doctor was leaning towards an MRI, but decided to try something else first. He told me to go home and eat salty things and drink bouillon, like you would tea. I ate heavily salted French fries.

Within 24 hours, my energy was back and my left eye wasn't closed.
Now I have water with meals and to take my pills, but that's it.


http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/28/are-overhydrated/?intcmp=features

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Bananas are an excellent source of potassium.

Sodium and potassium are clearly not one in the same and in no way interact with one another.

 

[moreluck]

Both sodium and potassium levels were critically low and I had to do K-Tabs too !! Thanks for playing Dr. Dave.
It's amazing to me that those 2 little things can wreak such havoc on your system. You can't get out of the recliner..just no energy!

 

[upsbeernut]

Like this?

Every time I see that I crack up like a nut!

 

[upsbeernut]

Had to say as a new brown café member this forum impressively started in 2009. I have a lot of reading to do. I want to start one to lasts that long.

 

[moreluck]

There are salt mines along the Canada/US border.
I thought this was weird.The salt is from ancient dried up oceans.
Wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Salt_Mine

There are salt lines way up the mountain in Salt Lake.....the Bonneville Ocean used to be that high back in the day.

 

[moreluck]

September was ovarian cancer awareness month.

Now, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

[moreluck]

Did you know a bird is the only animal that you can throw and you'd be helping it ?

 

[moreluck]

(YES)



Subject:Yes,Yes, I can it.

Amazing!!!

Go on, prove you are not on the slippery slope of the dreaded A!

Here's another trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills...

Can you meet this challenge?

We've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time we've seen it with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

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To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.

Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.

FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT.

 

[oldngray]

Breast Awareness Month I heard.

Al Sharpton: ‘Today Kicked Off National Breast Awareness Month’
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/01/a...ed-off-national-breast-awareness-month-video/

 

[moreluck]

Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.