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Autistic impressions

Laura Schocker
BBC UK
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:10 UTC
'Adam' the movie
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'Adam' - a new film that portrays autism
Hollywood movies rarely deal with disability - except for autism, when characters are typically shown as having special intelligence. Why do we like to think everyone with autism is especially gifted?

In one evening, he memorised every name and number from A to G in the phone book. While waiting for a meal in a restaurant, he committed the entire tableside jukebox to memory.

A dropped box of toothpicks? One glance and he is certain that 246 have spilt on the floor.

Other films since this 1988 release have depicted similar areas of brilliance that are sometimes associated with autism, known as savant qualities.
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Antidepressants once seen as miracle drugs: now risks are becoming evident

Sarah Boseley
The Guardian
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:37 UTC
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Since the horror of the Thalidomide scandal in the 1960s, pharmaceutical companies and medicines regulators have been acutely aware of the dangers drugs may pose to the unborn child.

Establishing what the effect of a drug may be on a foetus, however, is no simple task. Companies must rely on animal studies in the early stages of research and hope that the drug will behave in humans in the same way. Trials on pregnant women are rarely carried out, for obvious reasons.

Depression and anxiety became big business for the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s as doctors became better at diagnosing the problems, exposing a population of over-achieving, highly-stressed, worried-well.
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Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares

Alexis Madrigal
Wired Science
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:59 UTC
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The Nightmare
You wake up, but you can't move a muscle. Lying in bed, you're totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. There's a crushing weight on your chest that's humanoid. And it's evil.

You've awakened into the dream world.

This is not the conceit for a new horror movie starring a ragged middle-aged Freddie Prinze Jr., it's a standard description of the experience of a real medical condition: sleep paralysis. It's a strange phenomenon that seems to happen to about half the population at least once.
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Lettuce Recall Expanded


NewsInferno
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:32 UTC
Tanimura & Antle, Inc. of Salinas, California is expanding the geographic scope of its voluntary recall of bulk and wrapped romaine head lettuce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced. The recall was implemented over concerns of Salmonella contamination.
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World Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Karen Kisslinger
Huffington Post
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:22 UTC
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While ideology and profit politics predominate discussions and inhibit momentum toward any meaningful and sweepingly effective health care reform in America, there are fundamental and effective options on the table for changing the health culture and health of Americans. Toward the top of that list is the subject of this week's World Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
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How To Read Your Body's Warning Signs For Health

Anne Naylor
Huffington Post
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:13 UTC
This morning, I woke with a stiff neck. I was not aware of it until I turned by head to brush my hair and then - ouch! A stiff neck tells me I am being inflexible. And I was. I had been planning my day to go a certain way - and it was not lining up to my expectations. Do you ever have days like that? You plan everything to order - and life does not conform to it?

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."- John Lennon
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Why juvenile detention makes teens worse

Maia Szalavitz
Time
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:44 UTC
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Parents have always warned teenagers against falling in with the wrong crowd, those kids they consider bad influences. Now a new study of juvenile detention in Montreal adds to the evidence that Mom and Dad may have a point.
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Cargill Plant Recalls Nearly a Million Pounds of Tainted Beef

Tom Philpott
Grist
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:05 UTC
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Not-so-total recall: Cargill’s got nearly a million pounds of tainted beef circulating.
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when news emerged that a Colorado grocery chain had churned out 466,000 pounds of beef tainted with antibiotic-resistant salmonella, sent it out to six states, and then voluntarily recalled it - but not until weeks after several people had fallen violently ill from it? Well, they must be having some kind of competition out west, because now a California outfit called Beef Packers, owned by Cargill, the globe's biggest agribusiness concern, has issued an even bigger recall of beef tainted with antibiotic-resistant salmonella - this one involving 825,769 pounds circulating in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Utah.
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Probiotics are Essential in Preventing Disease and Maintaining Health

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:00 UTC
The August, 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics contains a study analyzing and confirming the positive effects of probiotics in maintaining immunity and preventing disease, particularly in children who experienced a significant decrease in cold and influenza incidences following sustained probiotic supplementation. The study also confirmed that probiotic supplementation decreased the length and severity of illness symptoms in those that did get sick, vindicating what has been known in the natural health community for years concerning probiotics.

The double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted with 326 children between the ages of three and five separated into three groups that received one of three milk solutions twice a day for six months. The first group received milk containing the probiotic strain Lactobacillus acidophilus, the second group received milk containing L acidophilus as well as Bifidobacterium animalis, and the third group received plain milk with a placebo.

The results of the single and combination probiotic groups, respectively, were reductions in fever incidence by 53% and 72.7%, coughing incidence by 41.4% and 62.1%, and rhinorrhea incidence by 28.2% and 58.8%, relative to placebo. Duration of fever, coughing, and rhinorrhea were also reduced by 32% and 48%, respectively. Consequently, there were crucial reductions in both the use of antibiotics in the single and combination probiotic groups equaling 68.4% and 84.2% as well as in truancy days from group child care equaling 31.8% and 27.7%, respectively.
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Stress Raises Belly Fat, Heart Risks

Rachel Stockton
FoodConsumer
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:42 UTC
A recent study assessing the correlation between socially stressed monkeys and cardiovascular disease may have important implications for humans. The research, conducted by Wake Forest University, focused on visceral (belly) fat, and its relationship to metabolic syndrome and heart disease.

Previously, Dr. Carol Shively and her team discovered that monkeys that are chronically stressed have a greater incidence of plaque buildup in the arteries; the current study was intended to discover why this is the case.
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