Medical

9 things to stop worring about

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Health magazine has the real facts about common health misconceptions:

  1. You don’t have to drink 8 glasses of water a day in addition to all the other fluids you consume
  2. Stress doesn’t turn your hair gray.  We gray according to our genetics. 
  3. Reading in poor light doesn’t damage your eyes.
  4. A cup or two of coffee a day isn’t harmful.  As a matter of fact it has healthful benefits.
  5. “Feed a cold, starve a fever” has no medical validity.   Fluids will keep mucus thinner and and help loosen congestion.
  6. Fresh food isn’t ALWAYS better than frozen.
  7. Eggs aren’t necessarily bad for you.  One egg contains 213 milligrams of cholesterol, but it also offers lean protein and vitamins A and D.  Just watch your total cholesterol intake.
  8. Getting wet and cold won’t cause you to get sick…. unless you get so cold that you suffer from hypothermia.
  9. You won’t get sick from lead in lipstick.

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Alzheimers test

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The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University …

Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down…

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The Flu Square Dance

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Choose your partners, one and all,
Aspirin, Advil, or Tylenol!

Now fling those covers with all you’ve got,
One minute cold, the next minute hot,

Circle right to the side of the bed,
Grab the tissues and Sudafed.

Back to the middle and don’t goof off;
Hold your stomach and cough, cough, cough.

Forget about slippers, dash down the hall,
Toss your cookies in the shower stall.

Remember others on the brink;
Wash your hands; wash the sink.

Wipe the doorknob, light switch too,
By George, you’ve got  it, you’re doing the Flu!

Some like it cold, some like it hot;
If you like neither, get the shot.

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