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Alcohol, Heroin, Rats and Russians
Bert enjoys drinking alcohol when he watches football.
Oscar will inject himself with heroin to escape the garbage heap he believes his life is.
Cookie often gets hungry after smoking marijuana.
Elmo enjoys the rush and feelings of confidence he gets when he snorts cocaine.
Who has the lowest potential risk of becoming physically dependent on his drug?…
Milk Chocolate and Cancer: Just Coincidence?
Cocoa and chocolate have been acclaimed for their possible medicinal and health benefits, but are consumers aware that the milk going into the chocolate may not be so healthy?…
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Coca-Cola: Pollution in a Bottle?
Last year, drinks sold by Coca-Cola in the UK were found to contain pesticides up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. Researchers tested 102 cans and bottles of soft drinks bought from 15 countries, for the presence of 100 pesticides….
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Cold Turkey, Obesity and Sterilization
“Cold Turkey” describes the actions of a person who gives up a habit or addiction all at once — that is, rather than gradually easing the process through reduction or by using replacement medication. A substance that is becoming increasingly addictive is food. We know this because obesity has become a growing concern among both genders and all age groups in the U.S…
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Egyptian Mummies, Drugs and Cancer
“In industrialized societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. Where there are cases of cancer in ancient Egyptian remains, we are not sure what caused them.”
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Elvis Presley, Constipation and Conspiracy
In a recent book release, “The King and Dr. Nick”, Dr George Nichopolous, Elvis’s personal physician for the last twelve years of his life, revealed his belief that it was chronic constipation that actually killed the ‘King of Rock and Roll’.
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Fish, Mercury and the Invisible Condition
In humans and other mammals, the auditory hair cells, unlike olfactory neurons, have to last a lifetime. If they are destroyed by disease, toxins, or excessively loud noise, they are not regenerated and the resultant hearing loss is permanent. Warnings about damage from load noise at rock concerts and wearing of ear protection for excessive noise at the work place have often been voiced in the past. However, what has been less vocal are warnings about toxic degeneration of auditory hair cells….
The Green Revolution: Ecologically Devastating
Thanks to the ‘Green Revolution’, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled over the period. Many experts credit the ‘Green Revolution’ with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving maybe 1 billion lives. However, the story has recently taken a twist….
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Heroin and the Fat Tax
Users need not venture into dangerous neighborhoods for their fix. Instead, they phone in their orders and drivers take the drug to them. And apparently, according to The Times, crew bosses sometimes call users after a delivery to check on the quality of service. They encourage users to bring in new customers, rewarding them with free heroin if they do. “I call them the Xalisco boys,”….
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Honey Bees, Einstein and Pesticide
Insanity, Salt and the Japanese
In 2007, 8 million people visited US hospital emergency departments (ED) with a mental disorder, 3 million with a substance abuse problem, and 1 million suffering both conditions. The World Health Organisation (WHO) say depression is a major health problem and predict that by 2020, depression will be the second- largest cause of the global health burden…. .
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Kellogg’s, Corn Syrup and Cancer
“Something’s wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Is food to blame?
Lead, Infertility and The Pill
The great disadvantage of lead (Pb) has always been that it is poisonous. This was fully recognized by the ancients, and Vitruvius specifically warns against its use.
A study, published in a 2003 issue of Human Reproduction, states that lead may be behind a fifth of unexplained male infertility cases….
Lead, Saturn and The Romans
Ancient Rome lent Saturn’s name to a form of lead intoxication known as saturnine gout. The Romans noticed similarities between symptoms of this disorder and the irritable god, and named the disease after him. Lead touched many areas of Roman life. It made up pipes and dishes, cosmetics and coins, and paints. For winemakers in the Roman Empire, lead was an integral part of the process….
Mercury, Light Bulbs and the Mad Hatter
The symptoms of ‘mercurialism‘ (mercury poisoning) evoked terms such as ‘the hatters’ shakes’ and ‘mad as a hatter’ into everyday speech. Mercury poisoning became so common among the hatters in Victorian Britain that it has become widely supposed that Lewis Carroll had the condition in mind when he invented the character of the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland….
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Nazis, Human Experimentation and Diet Coke
During the German Nazi regime, human experimentation was carried out on large numbers of prisoners in concentration camps throughout World War II. Experiments at Dachau concentration camp from 1942 to 1945, investigated immunization for treatment of malaria. Healthy inmates were infected by mosquitoes and after contracting the disease, the subjects were treated with various drugs to test their relative efficiency. Over 1,000 people were used in these experiments, and of those, more than half died as a result….
Sprite, Marijuana and Cancer
Sprite is the world’s leading lemon-lime flavored soft drink. Introduced in 1961, Sprite is sold in more than 190 countries and ranks as the No. 4 soft drink worldwide, with a strong appeal to young people.
More recently, Sprite has been appealing to a very different crowd. Scientific researchers have shown that Sprite appears to control stomach acidity in a way likely to allow greater absorption of an oral anticancer drug, Lilly Compound X (LCX), into the body…..
Why not put Heroin in our Cornflakes?
Another substance found to be every bit as addictive as heroin, is sugar. Recently scientists have discovered that rats which have become addicted to sugar act the same and have the same brain chemistry as rats addicted to heroin.
So can’t we just stop putting sugar in our tea? Well, it’s not that simple. We get hooked at an early age and are continued to be fed sugar into adulthood….
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