Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a terrific St. Patrick's Day Weekend!
70% of All Ground Beef contains "Pink Slime"
Older Men's Biggest Health Worries
The study, published in the journal The Aging Male, found that men were most concerned with health issues that would go on to affect their independence and quality of life. However, the researchers also found that few men reported receiving guidance on these concerns from their health practitioners.
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10 Early Signs of Parkinson's Disease That Doctors Often Miss
This is one of the oddest, least-known, and often earliest signs of Parkinson's disease, but it almost always goes unrecognized until later. "Patients say they were at a party and everyone was remarking on how strong a woman's perfume was, and they couldn't smell it," says Rezak
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Red Meat Linked to Cancer and Heart Disease - NYTimes.com
Eating red meat is associated with a sharply increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, according to a new study, and the more of it you eat, the greater the risk.
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7 Foods That Have Strange Side Effects
You've probably heard while growing up that 'you are what you eat.' Well, if that saying holds any truth, then Leo Barnett might as well be a carrot. The three-year-old boy from Britain was written about in the Daily Mail as living with a condition known as hyper-beta carotenemia. Other than being a mouthful, the condition prohibits Barnett's body from digesting carotene.
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The Guinness should be poured in a tulip-shaped pint glass. The glass is a very important component to getting a proper pour since it guides the nitrogen bubbles back up -- and this stout is all about its soft bubbles. When the beer goes through the keg, it has to pass a five-hole disk restrictor plate at high speed; this creates friction and brings out the nitrogen. It's those nitrogen bubbles that give Guinness its sweet, creamy head, which makes such a nice contrast to the malty, bitter fluid
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After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - NYTimes.com
Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, company executives said.
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Red meat increases death risk by a fifth - Lifestyle, Frontpage - Herald.ie
Regularly eating red meat -- especially the processed variety -- dramatically increases the risk of death from heart disease and cancer, a major study has shown
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Agapi Stassinopoulos - Greek Parenting - Unbinding the Heart - Oprah.com
As women, we're powerful, my mother always told me. We're Aphrodite. We're Athena. We're Artemis. We're Hera. We're the goddesses of the beauty and wisdom, the goddesses of the hunt and the moon, and the goddess of marriage and childbirth. We're not the goddesses of the cell phone or the microwave.
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StPatricksDay.com – St. Patrick of Ireland
His father belonged to a Roman family of high rank and held the office of decurio in Briton. Conchessa was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St. Martin of Tours. Kilpatrick still retains many memorials of Saint Patrick, and frequent pilgrimages continued far into the Middle Ages to perpetuate there the fame of his sanctity and miracles
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St. Patrick Day's Recipes: Dishes You Can Drink And Dine To
Ask people what St. Patrick's Day means to them in this era and you're bound to get a response that involves some sort of alcohol. But that's just a tiny fraction of how people celebrate on March 17th. There's also the charm, lore, and certainly the food behind the widely celebrated Irish holiday -- after all, there's more to St. Paddy's Day than drinking, green beer, and close calls with alcohol poisoning. Legend has it that Patrick was the saint responsible for building monasteries and schools in Ireland after being blessed by the Pope. Rumour also has it that he was the one responsible for driving out the hoards of poisonous snakes that plagued the emerald isle thousands of years ago
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Amy D. Shojai, CABC: 3 Ways Your Pet Can Help You Heal
Studies prove that pets provide physical health benefits, offer stress relief and detect or predict health challenges. Some pets now are used prior to health tests like MRIs to reduce patient fear. How can that be? Pets help keep us emotionally healthy.
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