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SOAP (cont’d) • Water is a molecule composed of hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen end of the molecule has a positive charge, and the oxygen end is negatively charged. Oil, however, has neither a positive or negative charge, but carries a uniform electrical distribution. That’s why water and oil repel each other. Soap is actually a compound called sodium stearate. Sodium stearate has the properties of both oil and water: partly polar, partly non-polar. That is how it brings oil and water together. • A molecule of soap is shaped like a snake, with the head being the water-loving sodium compound, and the tail being the water-hating stearates. Add soap to water, and the tail end tries to get away from the water. Add something greasy to the water, and the tail end of the soap molecules rush to cling to the compatible polar charge of the grease molecules. The grease molecule bonds with the stearate tail, and floats away led by the water-loving sodium head. SOAP HISTORY • Around 1000 B.C., Romans performed animal sacrifices to the gods on Mount Sapo. The fat from the animals mixed with the ashes of the sacrificial fires. This mix of fat and alkali flowed down to the Tiber River and accumulated in the clay soils. Women washing clothing there found the clay seemed to help get things cleaner. FAST FACT • Individually wrapped cakes of soap were first manufactured in New York in 1830 by a soapmaking company called Colgate, now known for its toothpaste. Previously the merchant merely hacked a chunk off a huge block of soap. (continued next page)

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ward. When animal fats were in short supply during World War II, German scientists learned how to make soap using synthetic compounds and petroleum by-products. These are called detergents. Many soaps are made from vegetable oils such as cocoa butter or palm oil. The town of Castile in Spain makes soap using olive oil • Soaps and detergents are widely used in industry. Soap prevents hot rubber tires from sticking to their molds. Motor oil contains detergents that break down soot and dust particles, preventing them from damaging the engine. Soap polishes jewelry and softens leather. Today Americans spend $2.2 billion on soaps and detergents annually, averaging 59.5 lbs. per person. BEATING IT UP • Ivory soap was first invented in 1879 by Procter and Gamble. At that time, the soap was named White Soap and it sank in the bathtub water just like every other soap. However, a worker one day went to lunch and forgot to turn off the soap-mixing machine. When he returned, he found the vat of soap frothy and bubbling. Mr. Procter came to look over the situation, and decided the soap had not been harmed. The soap was processed and sent out on the market. • Not long afterward, Procter and Gamble started receiving letters from consumers asking for more of the “floating soap.” Once the company realized what had happened, they decided to beat extra air into all their soap, making it lighter than water. Although it results in giving the consumer less soap for their money, the move proved to be popular. White Soap was renamed Ivory, and the world’s first “soap that floats” was born. FAST FACTS • Ivory soap is advertised as being 99.44% pure. What is the other 56/100% made of? Uncombined alkali, carbonates, and mineral matter. • A single bar of soap produced by a family-run business in Lebanon and sold in Qatar will run you $2800. Each bar is infused with gold and diamond powder.

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Smoothie. It feels good just to say the word, doesn’t it? I used to think of the concoction of naturally sweet, fresh fruit flavors with crushed ice and yogurt as a magical summer thirst quencher, but with so many healthy and sometimes surprising add-ins nowadays -- from kale to beets and chia seeds -- I recently dusted off my blender to give some new combos a whirl. While my preference is still a traditional blend of vitamin-rich fruits and berries (even when they come out of a package from the freezer), my family likes a variety of updated twists, too -- including adding coconut milk to the goodness for a refreshing, light taste. But first, some smoothie basics using a standard blender. 1. Start with liquids such as juice, milk, kefir, yogurt, sparkling water and crushed ice. 2. Add fresh fruit (a half or whole banana is a standard ingredient for flavor and for thickening the mixture of any smoothie) and/or vegetables. To cut prep time, your school-age kids can pre-package and freeze fruit-and-veggie combinations in small plastic-bag packets. When it’s time to make a smoothie, toss in the contents of a packet with other ingredients. 3. Whirl it all together. I pulse a few times, then blend for 15 seconds or until smooth. Now for my go-to recipe that is quick to make at breakfast time before sending kids out the door to the bus stop, or as a satisfying afternoon snack to refuel. Older school-age kids can make it themselves with attention to tastes and health needs. Be flexible, too, and experiment with the addition of other ingredients you have on hand, such as a few chunks of pineapple, slices of kiwi or a ripe mango. You really can’t go wrong.

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• In the mid-1960s a researcher for Procter & Gamble came up with an idea for a potato snack that was made of potato dough which was rolled, pressed, and cooked. A food storage technician named Fredric Baur invented a unique method of packaging the curved snacks by stacking them in a canister with a re-sealable lid rather than loose in a bag like most potato chips. By 1968 the new potato product was ready for the market, but it still needed a name. • Rather than hire an advertising firm to think of a name, officials at Procter & Gamble pulled out the local phone book for Cincinnati, Ohio, which is where the factory was located. They went through the names of the streets, looking through the ones that started with a ‘P’ because they wanted a name that would match the ‘P’ in potato. In a suburb named Finneytown, they found the perfect ‘P’ they were looking for, and thus the name of the new potato snack was Did you hear about the family who got stuck born. • Iton Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? was argued in a court of law that that the Apparently, their vehicle would neversnack isn’t really potato chips because they never land. only have a potato content of 42%. They were dubbed “potato crisps” instead. • By the mid-1970s the product was being sold everywhere. Fredric Baur was so proud of his inventive packaging method that when he died in 2008, his will stipulated that he be buried in one. His children honored his request by having him cremated and placing some of his ashes in one of the potato crisp cans he had designed. • This popular potato snack is now sold in over 100 countries and 45 different flavors have L O Oover T DtheOyears, A Nforever W Mmebeen R introduced morializing the Ohio street it was named after: Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” Pringle Avenue. (continued on next page)

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SNACK FOODS (cont’d) • Amedeo Obici was born in Italy. His father died when he was seven, leaving his mother with three children. Amedeo’s uncle lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he ran a general store. He asked Amedeo to join him. Amedeo sailed to America at the age of 12. • He spoke no English, so his destination was written on a tag tied to his coat. When he arrived in the U.S., he was misdirected, put aboard the wrong train, and ended up in Wilkes-Barre instead of Scranton. A kindly stranger took the crying child to a store run by Italians who could translate for him. He stayed with them while his uncle was contacted, and he noticed the shopkeeper’s daughter was pretty. Later he returned to this family, eventually marrying their daughter and helping run the shop. • At this shop they sold peanuts, roasting them on the premises and using a large fan to blow the scent into the street as an advertisement. Amedeo built a push-cart to sell peanuts on the street, and soon had enough money to send for the rest of his family. He constructed his own peanut roaster out of junkyard components and later invented a method of shelling and skinning peanuts. • In 1906 he opened a peanut plant, choosing a random name for his company that he thought sounded dignified: Planters. • The iconic Mr. Peanut logo was drawn in 1916 by a 14-year-old who won a contest sponsored by the company. Amedeo was so taken with the youngster he ended up paying his way through college and medical school. • To celebrate the company’s 100th birthday in 2014, nine young adults drove three 27-footlong Nutmobiles around the country appearing along the way at stores, sporting events, and concerts.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I hear music playing in my head at all times. I can’t stop it, even if I’m reading, having a conversation or being active. It’s there when I wake up in the night or in the morning. Even if I consciously stop it and try to hear only the ambient sounds around me, the music always comes back. Is this indicative of any major problems? I am a very healthy 64-year-old male, and this is annoying. It has been going on for most of my life. I wonder if a psychiatrist could help. The only prescription I take is zolpidem for sleep, but I would consider any meds that would help stop this. -- S.H. ANSWER: There are several medical reasons to have music in your head. One is called “musical ear syndrome,” which is a type of hallucination most commonly associated with hearing loss. Another is associated with psychiatric disease, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder, but also with schizophrenia or mood disorders. However, my experience is that there are many, many normal people with no psychiatric illness who have music playing in their head almost all (continued on next page)

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the time or all the time. Many people have had a song stuck in their head (often called an “earworm”), but a few people have this continuously. I had one patient in whom this was a major source of distress, and in that case, it appeared to be related to the use of an antidepressant. Solving anagrams and reading are supposed to help, but in your case I am almost sure that would be temporary. Sometimes playing the music that is in your head can stop it. There are a few case reports of treatment with medication (such as carbamazepine) being effective, but sometimes reassurance that this is almost normal makes it easier to deal with. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with pancreatic cysts. A recent MRI scan showed that they are less than 2 cm and have been stable for a year. My doctor tells me these are benign and don’t need any more followup. Could these cysts become cancerous later on? -- K. ANSWER: The medical term “cyst” means any fluid-filled, walled structure. They can occur in practically any anatomic location you can think of. In the pancreas, there are several types of cysts, as well as pseudocysts (fluid collections, usually as a result of pancreatitis, that develop a THE “X”weeks), FACTOR wall after some and (continued): cystic neoplasms, • Do you from xeroderma? If you have which havesuffer the potential to become cancerous. abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies You didn’t tell me how you were diagnosed. to you! Very often, these are found incidentally when a• From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on CT scan is obtained for some other reason. In Mediterranean Seanosailed a small threethisthecase, when there are symptoms present, masted vessel with square and triangular sails the only concern is whether they can grow and thatsymptoms enabled them to or sailworse faster their cause later on, yet,than could prospective victims. Depending on the size become cancerous. Since pancreatic cancer is of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 justifiably feared, I understand your reasons for guns might be mounted on the vessel. asking the question. • The word I xenia variety of commeanings. Fortunately, agree has witha your doctor To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept pletely. The likelihood of a small cyst (your of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown largest cyst is 1.4 cm) being cancer is less than to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s 5 percent. it hasn’t in atoyear of in the effectSince of pollen on achanged seed. And those follow-up, your for cancer very, very Ohio, it’s the risk county seat of isGreene County, low. a community about 21 miles (34 km) from *** Dayton. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable answer to • Xystus is an architectural term, toreferring individual letters, but will incorporate them in of a long, covered portico, or main entrance, theancient columnGreek whenever possible. Readers gymnasiums. Here, may athletes email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. would exercise during inclement weather. cornell.edu. To viewthe andxystus order health pamTo the Romans, was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where phlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write tothey planted flower beds. Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a instrument for Inc. scraping bones, (c)surgical 2018 North Americaused Synd., while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at All Rights Reserved the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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DRY CLEANING • Dry cleaning was a result of an accident that happened in France in 1828 when a maid tipped over a kerosene lamp on a dirty tablecloth. When the kerosene dried, that spot on the tablecloth was clean. Her employer, Jean-Baptiste Jolly, was intrigued and submerged the entire tablecloth in a tub of kerosene. The result was a clean tablecloth and a new industry. The business called Jolly-Belin in Paris is credited as the first dry cleaning business, using kerosene as its primary cleaning material. • Yet, Jolly wasn’t the first to figure out how to clean clothing without water. In 1821, a tailor in New York City named Thomas Jennings was granted a U.S. patent for the process. As a tailor, he heard his customers complain over and over again that their fine and fancy garments would not hold up to the rigors of the wash board. Jennings patented a process he called “dry scouring” using solvents instead of water. Jennings was African American, in a day and age where the rights any patents granted to slaves were automatically handed over to their owners. However, Jennings was a free man. He used the money he earned from his dry cleaning process to buy his wife and children out of slavery, and he also funded many abolitionist organizations. We don’t know which solvent he 3rd Quarter 2016 used in his process due to a fire that destroyed the patent records Week 34 in 1836. • Solvents used in the early days of dry cleaning August 14 -August 20 include turpentine, kerosene, benzene, and gasPageare 8 all extremely flammable, often oline. These resulting in fires and explosions. Dry cleaning businesses were often banned from operating inside city limits for this reason. Benzene was toxic when inhaled by workers. Turpentine smelled bad if residue was left on clothes. (continued on next paget)

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