People are Great! Everyday I get to live vicariously through the people I see in the office. I laugh, I cry, I cheer, I even shake my head now and again. Someone once said that "Truth is stranger than fiction", man, is that true.
There was a lady in today who said I ought to do a blog with the stuff I have on the walls in the office. She just doesn't have enough time to read them when she's here. It sounded like a great idea to me. It's a simple way for people to get a feel of the office.
One of my patients walked in today and handed me two medals he had just won at the Police and Fireman Games. This guy has the biggest shoulders I have ever seen! What struck me about this was how proud he was and how proud I was. I admire this fellow because he had the guts to throw his hat in the ring. My dad had a saying when I was a kid, "Our doubts are traitors for losing the good we oft might gain by fearing to attempt." The other thing that struck me was, as a kid I won lots of medals and looking back, they didn't mean that much to me. As an adult I have won few "medals" but they have meant a LOT to me. It's not the Stanley Cup or the Grey Cup but man does it feel good!
Here's some good stuff,
1. Rinsing your nose with salt water can help keep you healthy and ward off allergy symptoms.
2. Dogs can smell cancer and low blood sugar. A study showed that it is possible to train dogs to identify, based on breath samples, which patients had lung and breast cancer. For diabetics, the dogs can smell ketones in urine and on the breath when blood sugars are high. Dogs can pick up on other smells that humans can’t when glucose levels drop.
3. Researchers found that people who pass through an entryway near the kitchen tend to eat 15 percent more than those who use the front door.
4. You're more likely to have a heart attack on a Monday, or up to three days after you've been diagnosed with the flu or a respiratory tract infection.
5. Obese people spend approximately $485 more on clothing, $828 on extra plane seats, and $36 more on gas each year than their thinner counterparts. An overweight driver burns about 18 additional gallons of gas a year.
6. Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep than nonsmokers. Smokers often experience withdrawal symptoms at night, thus causing periods of restlessness and waking.
7. Eating fruits and vegetables may help your body make its own aspirin. Benzoic acid, a natural substance in fruits and vegetables, causes people to produce their own salicylic acid, the key component that gives aspirin its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.
8. A 20-minute nap can improve your overall alertness, boost your mood, and increase productivity. In addition, your heart may reap benefits from napping -- a six-year study found that that men who took naps at least three times a week had a 37 percent lower risk of heart-related death.
9. Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathroom. There are typically more than 500,000 bacteria per square inch in its drain, and the faucet, basin, and sponge are crawling with germs as well.
10. Four out of five doctors in the UK don't work out enough. Heavy workloads, lack of time and poor motivation contributed to the lack of exercise.
11. Baking soda can whiten teeth, garlic can help treat athlete's foot, and honey can soothe a hangover.
12. Using a food diary can double your weight-loss efforts. Your food diary makes you accountable to yourself and provides you with clues on where the extra calories are sneaking in.
13. Regular exercise can lower a woman's cancer risk -- but only if she's getting enough sleep. The National Cancer Institute followed nearly 6,000 women for almost 10 years. Women in the top half of physical activity levels showed an approximate 20 percent reduction in cancer risk, but sleeping less than seven hours per night resulted in a decreased benefit.
14. Watching yourself run in a mirror can make a treadmill workout go by faster and feel easier.
15. Third-hand smoke -- the particles that cling to smokers' hair and clothing and linger in a room long after they've left -- is a cancer risk to young children and pets.
16. Walking against the wind, in the water, or while wearing a backpack burns about 50 more calories per hour than walking with no resistance. People who wear pedometers also tend to burn more calories and lose more weight.
17. Vitamins don't seem to help older women guard against cancer or heart disease.
18. Germ-killing wipes can spread bacteria from one spot to another if you reuse them.
19. Twenty-nine percent of Americans say they have skipped filling a prescription due to the cost, and 23 percent use pill splitting as a way to save money.
20. Facebook may be good for your health; studies show that staying in touch with family and friends can ward off memory loss and help you live longer.
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